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News outlet that bills itself as ‘fearless journalism’ wimps out & publishes climate nonsense: Claims ‘Climate Change Won’t Stop for the Coronavirus Pandemic’

https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-wont-stop-for-the-coronavirus-pandemic

by Abrahm Lustgarten

Excerpts: The next several months could bring hurricanes, floods and fire, on top of the pandemic currently raging through the country. How do you shelter in place during an evacuation? …

The flooding, hurricanes and wildfires that now regularly arrive in the U.S. each spring and summer, after all, are not on hold because we also face a health crisis. Changes in the climate have made the chance of a natural disaster striking during this pandemic significantly more likely, and its likely impact more severe.

“Climate change is loading the weather dice against us,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a professor of public policy and law at Texas Tech University and one of the world’s foremost climate scientists. “We always have the chance of rolling a double six.”

 

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