An American podcaster claims in a video shared on Instagram that extreme weather events such as hurricanes, forest fires and droughts are becoming less severe, implying global warming is not a threat. This is false; scientific research shows these phenomena are worsening due to human-caused climate change.
"What the evidence has overwhelmingly shown is that a lot of those events that we would think of as extreme climate or weather or meteorological events are actually declining in severity," says Randall Carlson, host of the "Kosmographia" podcast, in a video published March 11, 2023 on Instagram.
The footage comes from an interview on Mike Adams's "Health Ranger Report," a program hosted by online broadcaster Brighteon.TV. AFP has previously fact-checked both Carlson and Adams, founder of the website Natural News, for spreading misinformation.
"We can look at accumulated cyclonic energy, typhoons in the Pacific, hurricanes in the Atlantic, and it's actually declined over the last 20 or 30 years," Carlson says in the clip shared online. "We can look at forest fires, they've declined, we can look at droughts ... and when we look back let's say at the last millennium or two, periods of cold weather, by contrast, have been the ones where the greatest extremity and frequency of these intense events have occurred."
Screenshot from Instagram taken March 13, 2023
Carlson's website advertises speaking events on subjects such as "ancient technologies and esoteric principles." His...
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