Propaganda Supersedes History

This is CNN

The legacy media, whether, television, print, or the Internet is the prime driver, enthusiast, and benefactor of climate change. The progressive media and climate activists want the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to connect severe weather events with climate change.

If you talk to a semi-educated environmentalist, they will mention the IPCC as the high priest of their ecological faith. Still, in the case of associating extreme weather with climate change, the IPCC has failed to put that in their list of eco-commandments.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres claimed that “weather and water-related disasters had increased by 500% over the last 50 years.” And of course, climate change is the iniquitous culprit. While that was an outright lie, the press, idle of facts had a field day.

Regarding non-attribution of severe weather to climate change, Roger Pielke, Jr. with the American Enterprise Institute and previously a professor with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder stated this, “ . . conveys the impression that we just do not know, which feeds into uncertainty, doubt or incompleteness, and the general tendency of humans to discount threats that are not imminent”.

One never hears the noun and term “Verisimilitude” – literally "similarity to the truth". I believe propagandist journalists use these quotes as evidence of portraying reality or truth even when factual proof takes them in the opposite direction.

We look saddened at the hurricanic event that caused mammoth devastation in Asheville, North Carolina. CNN published a story on the event titled “People moved to Asheville to escape extreme weather. They forgot its tragic history”.  The article illustrates how that city is prone to historic flooding, but at the same time, blames this last episode squarely on climate change.

In that article, they tell about the 1916 Asheville floods stating, “In 1916, back-to-back hurricanes dumped relentless rain on Asheville and other parts of western North Carolina, triggering biblical flooding that washed away houses and killed around 80 people”, but they failed to mention the substantial flooding just three years, prior.

An AI article states, “While Hurricane Helene caused significant flooding in Asheville, the 1913 flood was a more catastrophic event. The 1913 storm’s rainfall totals were likely higher, and the city’s infrastructure was less developed and less resilient at the time.”

The CNN article further states, “Even the climate experts who call Asheville home believed they were insulated from the worst risks. Susan Hassol, a veteran climate change communicator and science writer, said she and others “have labored under the illusion that we live in a relatively climate-safe place.”

Imagine that inane line of rationale in that statement. Here’s a place and region that has had devastating and historic floods throughout the past centuries, and people assume it was a safe place.

The population of Asheville in 1913 was approximately 20,000 versus today at over 95,000. So just in size, infrastructure, and value of the dollar, costs will be incomparable.

Even as the propagandists they are, I am not sure how CNN editorial staff approved an article promoting climate change that essentially and effectively implodes on itself. The network concludes the article with a fear-mongering quote from Kathie Dello, Science communicator and the Director of the State Climate Office of North Carolina, who they mistakenly say is a climatologist, “Where do you run from climate change?”

I always assumed that the savage events of weather would have ended in 2008, since after winning the Democratic primary, the progressive’s divine idol, Barack Obama in his acceptance speech said, “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”