Climate change

Typhoon Bavi Hits China, 2.8M Evacuated

Is this proof that climate change is supercharging storms or just natural extreme weather being overhyped?

Published JUL 13

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Above: Huge waves crash along the coast as Typhoon Bavi approaches Ningde, Fujian Province, China, on July 11, 2026. Image credit: Wang Dongming/China News Service/VCG/Getty Images

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Climate-concerned narrative

Typhoon Bavi is a wake-up call — climate change is making storms like this more frequent and more ferocious. Warmer oceans are fueling rapid intensification, turning average typhoon seasons into unprecedented disasters. What used to be a once-in-500-years event is now a 50-year event, and that trajectory is only getting worse.

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Climate-skeptic narrative

Blaming every typhoon on climate change ignores that extreme weather has always existed. The climate alarm movement fixates on global averages and computer models but dismisses deep oceans as the true drivers of Earth's energy. Swapping real-world observation for ideological abstractions produces bad science and worse policy.

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