Re: Article by Nick Shay - Professor of Oceanography, University of Miami
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 5/23/2022, 2:42 am
I'm surprised they haven't changed the headline already. Most major news organizations would have by now.

The word "monster" is used only once in the article:

"Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes."

And once in the original headline on the site the article comes from:

"Bad news for the 2022 hurricane season: The Loop Current, a fueler of monster storms, is looking a lot like it did in 2005, the year of Katrina"

Both are not:

"Expert: A monster hurricane season is coming"

Though I don't really like some of the other language either. But "A monster hurricane season is coming" is a definitive statement and you can't go making bold statements like that. I know some headline writer that doesn't know what they are talking about is likely responsible, but the paper shouldn't have left that title up this long.

And it's even worse now that I look at an archive of the page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220518182838/ https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Opinion-A-monster-hurricane-season-is-coming-17181986.php

The link seemed like it didn't match the headline, so I decided to check for an archived page. The title was originally:

Opinion: A monster hurricane season is coming

So they changed "Opinion" to "Expert". That's them saying, hey, it wasn't us that said it, it was this guy in this article we used. Only he didn't say those words. I know it's not in quotes, but that is just about them saying this guy said that. Maybe not libel legally, but really unethical.



Everyone should always prepare the same each year. Whether there is one storm or thirty, it's the ones that come your way that matter most to you and you can't know definitively where the storms will go each year. So you always have to be prepared.

https://www.noaa.gov/hurricane-prep

That headline is all about clicks. I bet it did well when it was first republished from the original source. Scare everyone and if they don't get hit, they can be made at scientists for being wrong about something that wasn't said in the first place.
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