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Andrew Friedman

Senior Reporter, Weather & Climate, CNN · 1 appearance on the record.

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Andrew Freedman is a climate and extreme weather journalist who co-authored the Axios Generate newsletter before moving to CNN. He is recognized for his reporting on climate science, policy, and extreme weather, and previously served as deputy editor for The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang.

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5 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Andrew argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Friedman: Climate scientists debate adding Category 6 for rapidly intensifying hurricanes
“There are scientists talking about do we need another category, because storms are intensifying so quickly and bringing certain hazards that we didn't deal with before.”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 21:09 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’

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Assertion Supported
Friedman: Climate scientists debate adding Category 6 for rapidly intensifying hurricanes
“There are scientists talking about do we need another category, because storms are intensifying so quickly and bringing certain hazards that we didn't deal with before.”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 21:09 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
Opinion
Friedman: Climate fiction writers grasp societal impacts better than scientific models
“The climate fiction writers seem to me to be almost on a better footing with societal impacts and with, you know, what, what's really gonna come.”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 21:26 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedman: UK 40°C threshold was thought impossible in meteorologists' lifetimes
“40 degrees C to an American who doesn't know the Celsius scale, you know, a high of a 104 degrees Has always been this limit that, that no meteorologist ever thought would be crossed in their lifetime in the UK.”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 3:36 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
Assertion Supported
Friedman: American weather models have historically lagged European model accuracy
“The American computer modeling system has been upgraded, but there's a long-running storyline of it not being as accurate. As the European model is.”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 5:50 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
Assertion Supported
Friedman: Simultaneous Heat Domes Hit Europe, the US, and Asia in 2022
“And at the time that this heat dome was setting up over Europe, you also had one over Asia. You also had one over the United States. You had actually two over Asia, one in Eastern Asia and one in more Central Asia.”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 11:55 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedman: Accelerated Arctic Warming May Slow Summer Jet Stream
“And this dual jet stream structure does seem to have some sort of potential influence from climate change, specifically the change in the difference between the temperature at the equator and the temperature in the Arctic, because the temperature in the Arctic…”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 14:32 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
Disclosure
Friedman: Axios directed its newsroom to avoid joyful heatwave imagery
“I shouted out newsroom wide and said, hey, we need to avoid any imagery that says, or conveys that this heat event, ah, is joyful.”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 22:48 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
Opinion
Friedman: US TV meteorologists have significantly improved their climate coverage
“In the United States, I think that there's been such a huge improvement in the way that TV meteorologists approach climate coverage, partly because of the influence of Climate Central and some of the teachings that they've done, and the graphics that they've p…”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 23:31 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
Assertion Supported
Friedman: Portugal Temperatures Reached Nearly 117 Degrees in 2022 Heatwave
“We saw temperatures go all the way up to almost, almost a 117 degrees in Portugal.”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 10:31 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
Assertion Supported
Friedman: Jet Stream Splitting Drives Persistent European Heat Domes
“So what they've been seeing is certain ways that the jet stream is shaped downwind of Europe. So times when it splits in two and you have that jet stream split encourages the weather to get backed up, like traffic going into the Holland Tunnel over Western Eur…”
Andrew Friedman Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 13:47 A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’ Jul 27, 2022 14m
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