James D. Agresti
Opposite to NBC Nightly Information, there is no such thing as a scientific foundation for the declare that local weather change is inflicting shark assaults.
SOURCES:
In a July 2022 episode of NBC Nightly Information with Lester Holt, Kerry Sanders reported on “the priority” that “local weather change means hotter waters, which brings sharks nearer to shore.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/information/us/17-year-old-attacked-by-shark-after-sharks-were-spotted-near-the-shore-days-before/ar-AAZ5V9l
A 2019 paper within the journal PLoS One measured shark assaults per million folks within the nations with essentially the most shark assaults and located that “nearly all of international locations noticed no perceptible development or change” since 1960. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211049
With regard to the few international locations with extra shark assaults, a 2011 paper within the journal Marine and Freshwater Analysis discovered that the rise in Australia is because of folks spending extra time within the ocean and “there is no such thing as a proof of accelerating shark numbers that will affect the rise of assaults in Australian waters.” https://www.publish.csiro.au/mf/Fulltext/MF10181
Past shark assaults, journalists, activists, politicians, and educators have fabricated or exaggerated threats from local weather change with issues like:
• animal extinctions: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions_extinctions
• deforestation: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions_forests
• flooding: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/the-nation-of-kiribati-is-growing-not-sinking
• agricultural decline: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions-famine
• insect-borne ailments: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/ddt-ban-not-global-warming-outbreak-disease-carrying-insects
• rainfall: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/has-global-warming-made-rainstorms-more-intense
• sea ice: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/has-global-warming-turned-the-north-pole-into-a-lake
Climatologist Stephen Schneider was a founding member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Henry-Schneider
In 1989, Schneider advised Uncover journal that with a purpose to “scale back the danger of doubtless disastrous local weather change,” “we’ve got to get some broad-based help, to seize the general public’s creativeness. That, after all, entails getting a great deal of media protection. So we’ve got to supply up scary eventualities, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little point out of any doubts we’d have.” He additionally mentioned, “Every of us has to resolve what the best steadiness is between being efficient and being sincere. I hope meaning being each.” https://www.justfacts.com/doc/global_warming_stephen_schneider_discover_magazine_october_1989.pdf
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