James Elsner

Professor, Florida State University

Expertise: Hurricanes and Tornadoes climatology

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Website

hypothesis Orcid ID

Hypothesis handle: JElsner

Qualifying publication(s): see criteria

publication http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.137

publication http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JCLI-

publication http://myweb.fsu.edu/jelsner/PDF/Research/ElsnerEl

ARTICLES REVIEWED

USA Today op-ed ignores evidence to claim climate change had no role in Hurricane Florence

in USA Today, by Roy Spencer

— 17 Sep 2018

This op-ed in USA Today makes the claim that Hurricane Florence has no appreciable contribution from human-caused climate change. Scientists who reviewed the article found that it...

CLAIMS REVIEWED

Hurricane predictions aren’t perfect, but that does not ‘invalidate climate change theory’, contrary to Daily Wire claims

CLAIM

There were no hurricanes this season even despite forecasts for a high activity, revealing a problem with climate change ‘theory’; it has been a light hurricane season

SOURCE: Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh, The Daily Wire

Published: 27 Sep 2024

VERDICT