Lemon, however, seemed to have another plan. He kept bringing the conversation around to talk instead about climate change. He went so far as to blame the intensity of Hurricane Ian on climate change.
Rohme kept trying to bring the discussion back to the subject at hand, Hurricane Ian. However, Lemon insisted on talking about climate change. The acting director of NOAA rescinded, “We can come back and talk about climate change at a later time.”
The NOAA spokesperson drew attention to an explanation of Ian’s intensification patterns and the formation of a second eyewall. Lemon responded by turning the conversation back to climate change, claiming that Jamie Rohme wanted to talk about that rather than the hurricane ready to make landfall.
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Rohme responded to the climate change topic shift by saying, “I don’t think you can link climate change to any one event. To link it to any one event, I would caution against that.” Lemon responded by saying he grew up there. However, he was talking about Louisiana, not Florida. Lemon went on to claim, “these storms are intensifying.”
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Lemon posed the question, “Can you tell us what this is and what effect climate change has on this phenomenon?”
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Rohme responded by saying, “I want to focus on the here-and-now. We think the rapid intensification is probably almost done.”
Lemon, however, kept pointing out that climate change must be at fault in the middle of a hurricane season that has been mostly mild so far.
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Weather.com reported that the start of the 2022 hurricane season was the “least active start in 30 years.” Additionally, scientist Phil Klotzbach stated that it was the first time in 40 years that no named storms formed from July 3 through August 22 in the Atlantic Basin. The ACE index, Accumulated Cyclone Energy, a metric gauge to track hurricane activity and their intensity, also shows mild activity. As of August 20, the 2022 hurricane season’s ACE index was pacing the lowest of any year since 1992.
While a slow start alone does not disprove climate change theories, neither does one Category 5 hurricane making landfall in Florida.
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