Pinocchios for the Presses
From the keyboard of Steve Milloy at JunkScience.com, comes the February 2023 edition of “Climate Fact Check”. The Washington Post, a perennial award winner in this category, is once again victorious, although, typical climate protagonists Axios, New York Times, and Bloomberg make a customary presence.
The article debunks climate change that:
Make hurricanes more intense;
Generates a deficiency of snow in New York City;
Antarctic melting to cause sea level rise;
Is making India more prone to extreme weather;
Evacuation of Miami is imminent due to sea level rise;
Earth needs drastic emissions cuts to stop all sea level rise';
Harms all global food production;
Indonesia to be buried by rising oceans;
Increased warmth expands the mosquito population; and
Drying up the Colorado River.
After graduation from school irrespective of level, the duties of climate change indoctrination and propagandism are handed off to the legacy media. Not only do these news outlets maintain staff to market the theory of climate change, but as I write in an article entitled, “News by Donation” they get contributions from progressive organizations and foundations to elevate promotional coverage. Even the news agencies Associated Press (AP) and Reuters-Thompson play the same game.
Based on the linked article, in January of 2021, I wrote “Billionaire and unsuccessful presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has established teams of mercenary lawyers to work with city, county and state’s attorney’s offices to research, finance and execute climate change legal actions in and by public offices. These cities, all led by progressives, assume they can enlarge their coffers by suing gas and oil companies for their purported participation in causing anthropogenic climate change and, as a result, triggering damage and destruction to public property and communal infrastructure.
Naturally, the media remains relatively hushed on nuclear energy– for obvious reasons. The fact that temperatures remained stable from the conclusion of 1998 through 2015 and have fallen from 2016 through to the current time has received the Simon and Garfunkel award, the “Sounds of Silence”. All of this is deceptive marketing of climate change. The deceit is that the advocacy of climate change is hidden as hard, nonpartisan news using opportunistic financial rewards as the incentive. Another recompense in writing as a climate change proponent is the access to publishing clientele, even as an independent journalist, there are many more media outlets and publishers willing to reproduce one’s wares. The dichotomy presses are much fewer.
The other leader in climate change conviction is “confirmation bias” - self-censorship where neural mechanisms cause people to intentionally or even, involuntarily, ignore information that contradicts their beliefs.
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