Quote:An American podcaster claims in a video shared on Instagram that extreme weather events such as hurricanes, forest fires and droughts are becoming less severe, implying global warming is not a threat. This is false; scientific research shows these phenomena are worsening due to human-caused climate change.

"What the evidence has overwhelmingly shown is that a lot of those events that we would think of as extreme climate or weather or meteorological events are actually declining in severity," says Randall Carlson, host of the "Kosmographia" podcast, in a video published March 11, 2023 on Instagram.