{"id":308660,"date":"2024-03-15T12:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=308660"},"modified":"2024-03-15T12:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:37:24","slug":"reporters-cash-in-spinning-climate-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=308660","title":{"rendered":"Reporters cash in spinning climate hype"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the U.S. worked to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of scientists signed the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for \u201cfocused protection\u201d for older adults, people with medical conditions, and other high-risk populations rather than near-total lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That rankled Dr. Anthony Fauci and then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins so much that they colluded with news outlets to engineer \u201ca quick and devastating published takedown of its premises.\u201d The mainstream media helped ensure that the declaration was primarily ignored. Businesses went bankrupt, millions of students fell years behind in their studies, and thousands suffered unnecessarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, scientists and other experts are showing that fears about a man-made climate crisis are exaggerated and that \u201cclean\u201d energy \u201csolutions\u201d would be far more harmful than any alleged temperature increases, climate \u201cdisruptions\u201d or \u201cunprecedented extreme weather.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People are listening. In Europe, farmers, workers, and citizens demand that green energy policies be scrapped because families are jobless and entire industries are closing down or moving overseas as energy prices skyrocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America\u2019s \u201cclimate crisis\u201d profiteers have also seen rising doubts and opposition \u2014 and are determined to protect their advantages, reputations, and control over public perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They believe desperate circumstances require desperate measures \u2014 including censorship campaigns that look like the Barrington takedown on steroids. No one can be permitted to challenge their \u201cscience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago, Facebook and other social media platforms recruited third-party \u201cfact-checkers\u201d to approve or reject climate information and silence anyone who questioned apocalyptic climate claims. When people began raising questions about the utility of wind, solar, and battery power, censorship efforts swiftly targeted those doubting Thomases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then-White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy called on news media and tech companies to help silence \u201cinsidious and widespread misinformation\u201d that might be \u201cseeding doubt\u201d about the feasibility and costs of the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cenergy transition,\u201d whether wind and solar can provide reliable, affordable electricity for modern industrial societies, and whether we can just stop using fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this is exactly what we must discuss before activists, bureaucrats and politicians make energy decisions that could destroy our economy, standard of living, freedoms, and environment. We need to know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 How many wind turbines and solar panels do we need to replace the electricity we now depend on \u2014 and to generate even more electricity to replace gasoline for vehicles and natural gas for heating and cooking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 How many trillions of dollars will those wind, solar, and transmission installations cost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 How much will our electricity rates go up, and how many millions of acres of wildlife, scenic, agricultural, and ocean areas the facilities will cover? How much private land will be seized through eminent domain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 If we shut down natural gas, coal, nuclear, or hydroelectric power plants and don\u2019t have sufficient wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries to replace them, how often will widespread blackouts occur?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 How many millions of tons of nonrenewable steel, aluminum, copper, cobalt, concrete, and other materials will be required to manufacture all this equipment, and how much toxic pollution and carbon emissions will all those activities cause?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 How many of those activities will take place in the United States \u2014 and how many in China, Russia, and Africa, with monumental amounts of coal but few pollution controls, child and slave labor regulations, or consideration for U.S. national security risks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental, commonsense concerns. Europeans are revolting against net-zero and clean energy policies because politicians refused to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the concerns rarely get raised in the U.S. because climate crisis and renewable energy allies don\u2019t seem to want people to realize how costly, risky, and harmful this Green New Deal transition would be. In fact, they\u2019re ramping up information control, \u201cfact-checking\u201d and censorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Print, electronic, and social media use government and foundation grants to generate more articles asserting that man-made climate change causes species losses, human health issues, domestic violence, and other far-fetched problems. Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration trains journalists worldwide to produce dramatic and rigorous coverage of climate change, to engage audiences, and to create \u201cthe political will needed to tackle the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media outlets often refuse to cover studies or statements that suggest climate change is not driven by fossil fuels or is not a crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Swiss billionaire funded Climate Power, whose website describes it as \u201ca strategic communications organization focused on winning the politics of climate,\u201d to pressure broadcasters to stop airing ads criticizing President Biden\u2019s electric vehicle mandate. \u201cFact-checkers\u201d insisted it\u2019s not a ban or mandate, but merely regulations that make it impossible for manufacturers to produce anything but EVs. Other billionaires are prodding Hollywood to promote climate Armageddon in movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These \u201cesteemed arbiters of climate truth\u201d are making progress \u2014 but are far from achieving their \u201cmasters of the universe\u201d goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, their bias and censorship are impacting our lives. They need to be resisted and called to account before they transition our energy infrastructure into one that leaves us freezing in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared in the\u00a0Washington Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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