In recent years, sections of the media have been pushing the man-made climate change theory for all it’s worth. News items that add weight to the theory receive prominent news coverage; the news that debunks the theory given scant coverage, or worse, none at all. Media bias is there for all to see. The amount of support and publicity given to alarmists, the believers that humanity is responsible for global warming, is disproportionate to the number of people who actually support this theory.
The media have a lot to answer for
Reading the public comment section of the websites of major media organizations, support for global warming is about 1 in three people, while those who are not convinced by the alarmist arguments are 2 in three. . That is the main opinion around the world. However, in some countries, the situation is the opposite, with as many as 2 in 3 people supporting the man-made global warming theory, making it all too easy for politicians to seek electoral advantage by promising all sorts of policies. that would supposedly stop global warming. .
It seems that all the major problems arising in the world are caused by global warming, whether it is weather conditions in the Caribbean, drought in Australia, or famine in Africa. The media jump on this and in their ignorance, rush the case for Yes, without giving any substantive comment.
Let’s see just a few examples
Of the 10 fiercest hurricanes to hit the US, all occurred before 1950. And yet the alarmists’ allies, the international media, insist that changing weather conditions are the causes of these natural phenomena. The public is being denied the truth. Why?
In Australia, alarmists are pointing to the current drought and suggesting that this is the worst drought in the country’s history. Not so. Australia’s worst drought occurred between 1893 and 1904. Alarmists also say the poor state of the country’s longest river system, the Murray, is the worst in its history and is due to global warming. Again not so. By the mid-1850s the Murray was nearly dry for much of its length.
And finally, the alarmists tell us that the famine in Africa is being caused by man-made global warming causing increasing problems, when the real cause is problems with the quality of political governance. This is in keeping with the UN’s policy of not being too critical of despotic and murderous regimes in third world countries.
The alarmists would have us believe that their case is proven and cut and dried. They tell us that since 5,000 scientists in the US have signed a petition confirming their support for the theory, then it must be correct.
What they won’t tell us is that 31,000 American scientists, including more than 9,000 doctors, say the theory is simply wrong. And that there is no proof that global warming, if it is occurring, has been caused by the activities of mankind. But of course the media are not going to make too much of this, it’s not news. They have an interest in keeping the story going.
All of this raises the question: why are alarmists happy to support a theory that has no credibility and why does the world’s media agree to promote this position and give alarmists more publicity than they deserve? ?
Some say that the alarmists are the ones who 30 years ago suggested that the West was responsible for all men’s political problems: friction with socialist/communist forces; the military buildup and the obscene amounts of money spent on weapons of war; US support for right-wing dictatorships in Central and South America; and finally, Western support for Israel’s position in the Middle East.
These people are now said to support the theory of man-made global warming because they blame the industrial West. A position that the UN seems happy to support, since it does not recognize the role that land deforestation plays, which occurs mainly in the poorest and non-industrialized countries.
Others suggest that the biggest flaw of alarmists is that they are not prepared to see the big picture.
They seem to focus on data collected in the last 100 years, but more especially the last 50 years. They are not prepared to ask questions or provide solutions about events that happened in ages past.
In fact, the biggest criticism that can be leveled is that they approach the topic in a totally unscientific and poorly researched way with no regard for professional data translation.
For alarmists to convince people that man-made global warming is underway, the evidence they produce has to be more credible.
This is an attempt to balance the ongoing international controversy that is the theory of man-made climate change.
