The legacy media and Democrats have been thumping the old climate change drum for decades now. They believe for some reason that the world's climate is changing due to man, and that man is causing things like hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and other extreme weather events that have nothing to do with climate change.
Really, think about it. Are we going to blame the 1900 Galveston hurricane on the industrial revolution? What about the Indianola hurricane of 1886, or the 1925 Tri-State Tornado? The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 is the third strongest on record. Powerful storms have happened for hundreds of years, and the idea that man has somehow made them worse is laughable. Especially when you consider there is data backing it up.
The year of 2025 saw the fewest deaths from extreme weather ever recorded, with some data estimating 0.8 deaths per 100,000 people across the globe. But this is also following a decades long trend.
Marc Morano of the Climate Depot says their whole argument is based around climate change killing millions if we do not take action, and that is just not true.
"What is amazing about this, it continues a trend...if you go back to the 1920s, there has been a 97-percent drop in extreme weather deaths," he says.
For comparison, even in 1960, there were 320 deaths per 100,000, dropping to 1.3 deaths per 100,000 by 1990. In fact, there have been six years since 2000 which have seen deaths per 100,000 population below one, and they all have occurred post-2014. Part of that obviously is the advancement of warning technology and more stable structures. But if their deluded fears were true today, this number would be far, far greater.
The narrative just is not there logically. Yet there is Greta Thunberg, still prophesizing about climate change and how it is killing people every day. You will still have the media every day telling you about doom and gloom. Perfect example: in 2025, the Atlantic hurricane season was predicted to be one of the most active on record. It was doom and gloom, and the media preached climate change is real. Zero hurricanes made landfall in the U.S., the first time since 2015.
You will hear nothing about the positives though, because the legacy media has a job to fulfill.
"The media is bought and paid for by so-called philanthropists...these are green activist groups which pay the Associated Press and other outlets to report that climate is worse and we need a solution," says Morano.
If you think the media is somehow not bought, think again. The Associated Press received $8 million from climate advocacy groups in 2022, disclosing it in their reporting. However, they term them as "philanthropies" to hide the true intent.
So, when the next tornado, flood, or hurricane hits, no matter how big or small, do not expect the media to suddenly have an epiphany.
"They are just going to link that to climate change...there is a whole industry out there the media is paid to report on, this climate attribution," Morano says.
Regardless of whatever drum they want to thump, the media's climate change narrative is dying. Unlike the millions of people they claim it kills each year.
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