As we continue to cover a devastating tornado season in the middle of the country — and enter an above-average Atlantic hurricane season — several of you have called in asking about how our reporting fits into the big picture.A heat dome is covering regions of the US, triggering excessive heat warnings Chloe Nordquist 1:18 PM, Jun 04, 2024 Karen from Wisconsin:
Based on overwhelming evidence and consensus among scientists, Scripps News acknowledges in its reporting that human-caused climate change is fact. And given the scale of its impacts, we consider it one of the biggest news stories of our time. Climate change doesn't create individual storms, which have been around since well before human-driven climate change. However, since all of the earth's systems are intertwined, it does create conditions for stronger storms.