{"id":279661,"date":"2023-09-20T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279661"},"modified":"2023-09-20T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:01:41","slug":"and-the-walter-duranty-award-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279661","title":{"rendered":"And the Walter Duranty Award Goes To\u00a0\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"279668\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=279668\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/OIG-2023-08-04T145902.200.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/OIG-2023-08-04T145902.200.jpeg?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/OIG-2023-08-04T145902.200.jpeg?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/cliscep.com\/\">Climate Scepticism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cliscep.com\/author\/tonythomas061\/\">TONY THOMAS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"647\" data-attachment-id=\"279663\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=279663\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-613.png?w=816&amp;ssl=1 816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-613.png?resize=300%2C268&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-613.png?resize=768%2C687&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"151\" data-attachment-id=\"279664\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=279664\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-614.png?fit=713%2C151&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"713,151\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-614\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-614.png?fit=713%2C151&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-614.png?resize=713%2C151&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-614.png?w=713&amp;ssl=1 713w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-614.png?resize=300%2C64&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1932, Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty of the\u00a0<em>New York Time<\/em>s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/08\/1097097620\/new-york-times-pulitzer-ukraine-walter-duranty\">won the Pulitzer Prize<\/a> for his glowing reports of happiness and progress in the Soviet Union. He followed that with denials of the genocide-by-famine in the Ukraine, in which Stalin engineered the death by starvation of four million peasants. Duranty\u2019s peers at the time described his reporting as \u201cthe most enlightened, dispassionate dispatches from a great nation in the making which appeared in any newspaper in the world.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/quadrant.org.au\/opinion\/doomed-planet\/2023\/09\/and-the-walter-duranty-award-goes-too\/#_edn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0But the verdict of Duranty biographer Sally J Taylor in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/Stalins-Apologist-Walter-Duranty-Moscow\/dp\/0195057007\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3I4KBBNKTZB0S&amp;keywords=taylor+stalin%27s+apologist&amp;qid=1695167822&amp;sprefix=taylor+stalin%27s+apologist%2Caps%2C514&amp;sr=8-2&amp;asin=B0083TRAT4&amp;revisionId=c42684bb&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1\">\u201cStalin\u2019s Apologist\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(1996) was that his output involved \u201csome of the greatest lies history has ever known\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prizes for journalists are akin to the beads and mirrors offered to grateful savages. High-profile print and TV journalists locally \u2013 I\u2019d better not name them \u2014 have been showered with recent prizes for Canberra stories involving more spin than substance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An international renewables-lobby outfit called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coveringclimatenow.org\/\">Covering Climate Now<\/a>\u00a0(CCN) this week announced its 2023 prizes for media\u2019s best hyping of the non-existent \u201cclimate crisis\u201d, objectivity be damned. This \u201ccrisis\u201d was most recently elevated to <strong><em>\u201cglobal boiling\u201d by the UN\u2019s top idiot and socialist Antonio Guterres<\/em><\/strong>. And who should feature among the CCN prize-winners but our taxpayers\u2019 very own Australian Broadcasting Commission. The ABC\u2019s podcast \u201cWho\u2019s gonna (sic) save us?\u201d won the radio\/podcast category. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coveringclimatenow.org\/2023-ccnow-award-winners-by-category\/\">CCN commendation<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This engaging podcast tells the story of people who are standing up for their convictions and pushing back against organizations and companies acting with disregard for the climate crisis. The production draws the listener in with moments of high drama, like an Aboriginal woman boldly approaching an energy executive at a company board meeting to present \u201ccease and desist\u201d papers for trespassing on her people\u2019s land, followed by a discussion about how Australians are using the law to stop climate change \u2026 Highlighting how everyone can take action, the podcast speaks to audiences in a way that sounds like an everyday conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a journalist myself, I don\u2019t like outfits that work to turn journalists into propagandists, whether for \u201cclimate crises\u201d, renewables or anything else. I remember 30-40 years ago, when the media had more ethics, my boss at&nbsp;<em>BRW<\/em>&nbsp;magazine banned journos from making extra money from media-training consultancies. Those outfits coached company chieftains on how dodge around aggressive interviewing. But today the ABC not only solicits and accepts prizes from media-corrupting groups like CCN, but has joined several international consortia dedicated to censoring inconvenient views which the censors label as \u2018misinformation\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CCN is a creature of the leftist&nbsp;<em>Columbia Journalism Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Nation<\/em>, and the dark-green&nbsp;<em>Guardian<\/em>. It has persuaded close to 600 media groups to sign up to \u201ceducate\u201d the public about supposed climate peril, and to stifle evidence that then campaign for Net Zero is sabotaging the West\u2019s fossil-fuel-derived prosperity. As it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coveringclimatenow.org\/about\/\">boasts,<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>CCNow collaborates with journalists and newsrooms to produce more informed and urgent climate stories, to make climate a part of every beat in the newsroom \u2014 from politics and weather to business and culture \u2014 and to drive a public conversation that creates an engaged public.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CCN\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coveringclimatenow.org\/about\/\">600 rogues\u2019 gallery<\/a>&nbsp;includes news-syndicating giants Reuters, Bloomberg and AFP, along with a host of print, TV and radio channels such as Al Jazeera, CBS, NBC, Deutsche Welle,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/countdown-health-climate\/about#:~:text=The%20Lancet%20Countdown%20tracks%2043,and%20public%20and%20political%20engagement.\"><em>Lancet<\/em><\/a>,&nbsp;<em>New Scientist<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>NZ Herald<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Teen Vogue<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Science Alert<\/em>(Australia),&nbsp;<em>Nature<\/em>, and of course&nbsp;<em>The Conversation<\/em>(Australasia). CCN claims its members indoctrinate a two-billion strong audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ABC has not signed up to CCN because it would be too naked a breach of its statutory charter for taxpayer-funded impartiality. It\u2019s signed up instead to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/about.abc.net.au\/press-releases\/abc-reconciliation-action-plan-gives-a-voice-to-first-australians\/\">\u201ctruthist\u201d coalitions like Reconciliation Australia<\/a>&nbsp;and the troubled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/factcheck\">RMIT\/ABC Fact Check<\/a>. It\u2019s also in alliance with UK-based&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/quadrant.org.au\/opinion\/doomed-planet\/2023\/06\/an-invitation-the-abc-couldnt-resist\/\">BAFTA-albert<\/a>which wants to \u201cset the cultural agenda\u201d by promoting leftist memes in TV shows, documentaries and movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/quadrant.org.au\/opinion\/media\/2023\/02\/the-company-their-abc-is-keeping\/\">ABC joined the BBC\u2019s \u201cTrusted News Initiative\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;(TNI) \u2013 an international censorship alliance and, according to Robert Kennedy Jr, a cartel that labels material hostile to leftism as \u201cmisinformation\u201d. TNI, with ABC assistance, stifles internet sites opposing Deep State narratives about Covid, elections, climate, and renewables being the cheapest form of energy (checked your power bill lately?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, what about the ABC\u2019s prize from Covering Climate Now? It\u2019s for the podcast called&nbsp;<em>Who\u2019s gonna (sic) save us,&nbsp;<\/em>which is \u201ca co-production of the so-called \u201cscience team\u201d at ABC Radio National and triple j\u2019s Hack.\u201d Its brand logo involves, appropriately, a drum being banged, and a diversity-tick youth of colour screaming into a megaphone. In the background is a mob waving placards like \u201cDon\u2019t be a fossil fool\u201d, \u201cGo Solar! Save the planet\u201d, and the hackneyed one about \u201cNo Planet B\u201d. The text below reads,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We\u2019re all looking for a way through the climate crisis.&nbsp;<\/em>[Better, \u201cclimate madness\u201d].<em>&nbsp;Who\u2019s going to get us there \u2014 and how will they do it? Meet the people who are trying to draw the map to a better future.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These people, led by Climate Minister Chris Bowen, are giving us a \u201cbetter future\u201d involving tripling of household energy bills and, probably, blackouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The podcast\u2019s presenter is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/people\/jo-lauder\/10058626\">Jo Lauder<\/a>, who we\u2019re told has \u201creported extensively on climate change, the environment and young people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I checked her social media,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jolauder\/status\/1704242511714144611\">her top post on X<\/a>read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I messaged her, \u201cHi Jo, isn\u2019t it hypocritical to be carrying on about climate change while jetting to hang out in New York?\u201d No reply yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cWho\u2019s gonna (sic) save us\u201d series ran intermittently late last year. Although its ABC Listen app says we can \u201chear the world differently\u201d the Jo Lauder series is same-old climate guff, with episodes of up to 50 minutes including \u201cCitizens assemble!\u201d, \u201cStanding up for the climate\u201d, \u201c[activist] Scientists on strike\u201d, \u201cWe fought the law\u201d, \u201cCommunity power\u201d, and \u201cWho do YOU think is going to [as distinct from \u2018gonna\u2019] save us?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dutifully, I listened in for well over an hour, absorbing Jo\u2019s material:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWho is your climate hero? Think big and small. Is it Saul Griffith, with his ambitious plan for decarbonising the entire nation or, hey! the world, or a small local like the gang at Totally Renewable Yackandandah who are focused on transforming their community\u2019s future?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cTraditionally Australia\u2019s electricity system has been dirty, and heavily centred around coal communities. But there\u2019s a shift happening. Towns around the country \u2013 from Yackandandah to Shackleton to Marlinja \u2013 are using renewables to take control of their energy. The benefits are flowing back into local communities, and remote places are finally getting reliable power.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019d say that if Yakandandah wants to go right off the (coal-assisted) grid, good luck to them when the wind drops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who, by the way, is that ABC world-decarbonising climate hero Saul Griffith? The podcast invite reads,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Saul Griffith has an ambitious plan to save the planet. And it all begins at home. It\u2019s an electrified revolution for the Australian household!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saul turns out to be (thanks,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saul_Griffith\">Wikipedia<\/a>) a successful Australian-American engineer and inventor from a Greenpeace-oriented family, now back in Wollongong after great times with Silicon Valley startups like Otherlab and Squid Labs (no relation to&nbsp;<em>Squid Games<\/em>). He advocates forcing every citizen into compliance with the Net Zero agenda. He\u2019s also truly on board with the need for urgings from the likes of the ABC.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/whos-gonna-save-us\/05-better-call-saul\/101453306\">Jo Lauder\u2019s podcast opens with him<\/a>&nbsp;saying, \u201cDon\u2019t under-appreciate the importance of storytellers. We need story-tellers more than anyone right now. We need the storytellers to make it OK for you to give up the V8 [desirable car engine].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90684866\/how-we-get-to-100-electrical-everything\">As he\u2019s written<\/a>, (it sounds to me like one of those Soviet-era five-year plans):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Across the board we now need [renewables] adoption rates of 100%. This complete adoption rate [e.g. for electric cars] is required by the end-game decarbonization we ultimately need\u2026 A 100% adoption rate is&nbsp;only achieved by mandate\u2014and robust financial incentives to back it up\u2026 The challenge of 100% adoption presents a giant conflict that we need to address head-on:&nbsp;the \u201cfree market\u201d as we know it is not up to the task\u2026 This is not to say that businesses and the market don\u2019t have roles; they are critical [I welcome that he rejects the North Korean model]. But in emergencies,&nbsp;ideologies must be put aside. When Mother Nature arm wrestles with the invisible hand, she will always win. As my friend, the economist Skip Laitner, says, the free market needs&nbsp;an invisible foot to give it a swift kick in the ass now and then\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We can rebuild a prosperous and inclusive middle class, as we enjoyed&nbsp;after World War II, with tens of millions of good new jobs that are vital and prideworthy. If America does it right, everyone\u2019s&nbsp;energy costs will go down. [Should that read, \u201cup\u201d]. Everyone has a role to play in&nbsp;the war effort.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We now face a climate emergency as challenging as&nbsp;all of our other 20th-century emergencies combined. [e.g. World War One, the Great Depression, Hitler, Stalin, Tojo and the Cold War combined]. It requires mass mobilization with extraordinary speed and resources. Without a doubt, you are worried, scared, or worse. That\u2019s reasonable, but we can\u2019t do nothing, and this is also a vast opportunity to&nbsp;make the world, and our economy, better for everyone.<\/em>&nbsp;(My emphases).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Call me out for misinformation but isn\u2019t the real question, \u201cWho\u2019s gonna [sic] save us from Covering Climate Now, Saul Griffith, Buffoon Bowen and the ABC?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Tony Thomas\u2019s new book from Connor Court is&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><strong>Anthem of the Unwoke \u2013 Yep! The other lot\u2019s gone bonkers<\/strong><em><strong>. $34.95 and available&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au\/ANTHEM-OF-THE-UNWOKE-%E2%80%94Yep-the-other-lot%E2%80%99s-gone-bonkers--Tony-Thomas_p_513.html\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quadrant.org.au\/opinion\/doomed-planet\/2023\/09\/and-the-walter-duranty-award-goes-too\/#_ednref1\">[1]<\/a>&nbsp;Conquest, R.&nbsp;<em>Reflections on a Ravaged Century<\/em>, Oxford University Press, New York. 1986, p. 320.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international renewables-lobby outfit called\u00a0Covering Climate Now\u00a0(CCN) this week announced its 2023 prizes for media\u2019s best hyping of the non-existent \u201cclimate crisis\u201d, objectivity be damned. 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