{"id":259138,"date":"2023-05-25T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259138"},"modified":"2023-05-25T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T19:04:06","slug":"fault-lines-at-the-cbc-deconstructing-taxpayer-funded-climate-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259138","title":{"rendered":"Fault Lines at the CBC: Deconstructing taxpayer-funded climate propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Friends of Science Calgary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CBC News has come up with a new form of reporting that fails to give viewers the traditional \u201cWho, What, When, Where, Why and How.\u201d It\u2019s a brand-new kind of climate propaganda, an oblique approach to delegitimizing rational, dissenting science experts on climate change. The form uses the \u201cThrow Mud \u2013 It will Stick<\/a>\u201d methods perfected by cognitive behavioral psychologists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle Stirling, Communications Manager for Friends of Science Society, does a live explainer (link to recorded version below), deconstructing a recent \u2018news\u2019 story wherein reporter Jaela Bernstien of CBC News asked the silly question: \u201cClimate misinformation: Are you immune?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBC is Canada\u2019s ~$1.2 billion tax funded national broadcaster. Friends of Science Society operates on ~$150,000 from our loyal members and supportive donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story\u2019s backdrop relates to a report called \u201cFault Lines<\/a>,\u201d issued by the Canadian Council of Academies (CCA), an organization that has received nearly $55 million in tax dollars since 2002, and which has a bevy of top researchers. None of them apparently know how to pick up the phone, send an email or search our website to find out about Friends of Science Society\u2019s funding. (Yes, we are singled out by name in the report.) While engaging in misinformation themselves, the \u201cFault Lines\u201d report declares: \u201cMisinformation can manifest in a lack of support and public demand for policies addressing climate change; loss of trust in experts, scientists, healthcare providers, and public health authorities; and increased polarization.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How about if CBC and CCA just advocated for open, civil debate and full cost benefit analysis on climate and energy policies, as we do?<\/strong>\u00a0That would not require a 131-page report or $55 million dollars in funding. Rather than smearing and bullying scientists who hold dissenting views, why not argue the evidence in open public debates? Then climate policy would have to stand on its own merits, instead of relying on relentless tax funded media and think tank propaganda, especially that from CBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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