Thursday’s PBS News Hour segment on “extreme weather events” turned out even more bluntly unscientific than the channel’s usual apocalyptic environmental “Tipping Point” fare, with reporter Ali Rogin’s “climate change” screed equating temporary weather patterns with dangerous climate change — at least when the show and its climate guest cherry-pick the hottest spots on the map.Never mind the extreme cold North America suffered in late January 2026, or Cuba’s first freeze on record in early February, events ignored by the News Hour earlier this year. Now it’s all about the heat dome, due to “fossil fuel pollution.” (From the network that also complains about rising gas prices.)Anchor John Yang warned of “a massive heat dome….spreading across much of the United States, with temperatures reaching historic highs” before handing off to Ali Rogin for the latest alarmist entry in the News Hour’s “Tipping Point” series on “climate change.”Her guest, Bernadette Woods Placky, admitted to “some cold stretches” at the start of the year, “But since the beginning of the year, 85 percent of our records have been warm or hot records, and only 15 percent have been cold records…”Placky was exceedingly confident in her analysis.PBS’s expert finally noticed cold weather (“rare snow in Alabama”). Any weather anomaly is a sign of “extreme weather” and dangerous “climate change,” making the label unfalsifiable.Journalist Rogin made the lazy knee-jerk claim that the weather just keeps getting worse every year, ignoring for one thing the lack of hurricane landfalls in the United States in 2025, usual dire predictions notwithstanding.
PBS News Hour
3/26/26
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