At least one person was killed and dozens of others injured as a typhoon approached Taiwan on Friday, disrupting air traffic, according to the Central Emergency Operations Center (CEOC). Authorities on the island, home to around 24 million people, ordered schools and offices to close across Taiwan, except in Taitung County, as well as on the outlying islands of Penghu and Matsu, due to Typhoon Champi, Focus Taiwan reported. The death was reported in Liuqiu Township, in southern Pingtung County.
Heavy storms and rainfall caused traffic and other accidents, injuring 94 people, including two foreigners, the CEOC said. The incoming typhoon had also forced nearly 1,300 people to evacuate to safer places, mostly in Hualien County on the island’s eastern coast. According to the Civil Aviation Administration, 977 flights had been canceled since Thursday night due to Typhoon Champi, along with the suspension of 96 ferry sailings on 10 routes.
The canceled flights included 262 domestic and 715 international and cross-strait flights.
Anadolu reports that Typhoon Champi killed one person, injured 94 and forced school and office closures, evacuations and nearly 1,000 flight cancellations in Taiwan. The report is accurate and well sourced on the storm's toll and disruption. It never says that warming is making intense tropical cyclones like this more frequent or more severe, so a reader is left to treat the storm as weather with no link to climate change.
Leaves out the climate link
Serious
“At least one person was killed and dozens of others injured as a typhoon approached Taiwan on Friday”
Why this matters
Anadolu reports a deadly typhoon that killed one person and injured dozens. In this sentence and in every other sentence of the article it says nothing about climate change or warming.
The impression it gives
A reader comes away thinking Typhoon Champi was a stand-alone weather event, with nothing to do with the warming of the planet.
The context
The documented record shows that human-caused warming has made intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe. Other outlets described Champi as having started out as a super typhoon and one of the strongest storms in the Pacific this year. Anadolu's report never mentions climate or warming.
How we know
On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “climate” and “warming”.
At least one person was killed and dozens injured as Typhoon Champi, earlier classified as a super typhoon, approached Taiwan on Friday. Climate change is making intense tropical cyclones like this more frequent and more severe.