for anyone unfamiliar with Cliff Mass, he's a meteorologist here in the Seattle area, and a professor at UW, who has pivoted almost [0] entirely to this sort of

for anyone unfamiliar with Cliff Mass, he's a meteorologist here in the Seattle area, and a professor at UW, who has pivoted almost [0] entirely to this sort of "soft" climate change denial. quite predictably, every time there's a major weather event in the news, he will chime in to give reasons why he thinks it shouldn't be blamed on climate change: > 2018: Northwest Wildfires: Are We Seeing a "New Normal" Due to Climate Change or The "Old Normal"? [1] > 2021: Is the Texas Cold Wave Caused By Global Warming? [2] > 2021: Was Global Warming The Cause of the Great Northwest Heatwave? Science Says No. [3] > 2022: Misinformation about Sea Level Rise [4] > 2025: Why the LA Wildfires Have Little to do With Long-Term Drought or Climate Change [5] > 2025: Seattle Times Climate Lab Misinforms about Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise, and Seattle Flooding [6] the overall takeaway across all his reporting seems to be that everyone but him is over-exaggerating the effects of climate change. and his "no connection to climate change" message often gets repeated beyond his blog, for example [7]: > Mass also emphasized that the floods had no connection to climate change. > “The climate change connection is non-existent. There is no trend in heavier precipitation in this region. There is no upward trend in floods,” he explained. 0: when he's not comparing the George Floyd protests in Seattle to Kristallnacht (https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article244800747.html https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article244800747.h...) 1: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2018/08/northwest-wildfires-are-we-seeing-new.html https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2018/08/northwest-wildfires-a... 2: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/02/is-texas-cold-wave-caused-by-global.html https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/02/is-texas-cold-wave-ca... 3: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/07/was-global-warming-cause-of-great.html https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/07/was-global-warming-ca... 4: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/03/misinformation-about-sea-level-rise.html https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/03/misinformation-about-... 5: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2025/01/why-la-wildfires-have-little-to-with.html https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2025/01/why-la-wildfires-have... 6: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2025/06/seattle-times-climate-lab-misinforms.html https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2025/06/seattle-times-climate... 7: https://mynorthwest.com/john-curley/texas-floods-cliff-mass/4107663 https://mynorthwest.com/john-curley/texas-floods-cliff-mass/...