Posted on 01/10/2019 1:02:09 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Late last year, the Trump administration released the latest national climate assessment on Black Friday in what many assumed was an attempt to bury the document. If that was the plan, it backfired, and the assessment wound up earning more coverage than it probably would have otherwise. But much of that coverage perpetuated a decades-old practice, one that has been weaponized by the fossil fuel industry: false equivalence.
While print outlets arent perfect, TV news has lagged further behind on climate, often presenting climate contrarians as an equal and opposite balance to climate scientists. In coverage of the national climate assessment, for example, multiple cable news shows featured both climate scientists and climate deniers, as though the two are simply opposite sides of a debate.
Though some outlets have moved to extricate deniers from the conversation, too many television news programs continue to bring on contrarian experts, giving a platform to tired lies. I say lies because fossil fuel industry scientists debunked these theories themselves decades ago, so they are knowingly perpetuating falsehoods.
Its well past time the media stopped allowing itself to be a tool in the fossil fuel industrys information war. Oreskes likens the push for balance on climate change to journalists arguing over the final score of a baseball game. If the Yankees beat the Red Sox 6-2, journalists would report that. They would not feel compelled to find someone to say actually the Red Sox won, or the score was 6-4, she says.
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And the very first lie out of the bag is:
Her implication that opponents of the Global Warming Scam Complex deny that “Climate Change” exists. Does anyone actually dispute that climates change all the time, and have been doing so since the formation of the atmosphere?
What I’d like to hear is her proof that the incredibly expensive remedies, taxes, carbon trading schemes, etc., would have any meaningful impact on the various climates. It would be fun because there is no such proof. Will it work if China opens new coal-fired power plants every few days? What is someone/everyone cheats? Who or what will regulate the activities of everyone on the entire globe? Oops—that’s the real purpose.
Who knew?
Well played sir!
Most of the Lefty Twitter “journalists” are too arrogant to delete their old tweets. :-)
If it’s “not debatable”, it’s not science.
If it’s “settled”, it’s not science.
Those in the Washington Post’s immediate orbit are about to get a foot of global warming!
Because it is debatable
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
While print outlets arent perfect, TV news has lagged further behind on climate, often presenting climate contrarians as an equal and opposite balance to climate scientists. In coverage of the national climate assessment, for example, multiple cable news shows featured both climate scientists and climate deniers, as though the two are simply opposite sides of a debate.
"Presenting climate contrarians as an equal and opposite balance to climate scientists?" Climate Change must have affect their imagination. From what I see climate contrarians are hardly allowed to present any equal and opposite balance to climate "scientists," relegating opposition mainly to a few web sites.
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