Former Reuters science reporter: The media is lying about CO2 and a "climate crisis"

Hot Air ^ | 24 Feb, 2023 | ED MORRISSEY

[MtnClimber]

Is “lying” too strong a word? “Corrupt” may work better to describe the process in which the media has transformed itself into a propaganda amplifier, as Neil Winton described yesterday in the Daily Sceptic. A former science-tech reporter and editor at Reuters for 32 years, Winton had access to the top minds in those fields, as well as the studies and data they produced.

At first, Winton believed the hysteria from the activists — until the scientists and the data convinced him otherwise:

When I became Reuters global Science and Technology Correspondent in the mid-1990s, the global warming story was top of my agenda. Already by then the BBC was scaring us saying we would all die unless humankind mended its selfish ways. Carbon dioxide (CO2) was the culprit and had to be tamed, then eliminated. I had no reason to think this wasn’t established fact. I was wrong.

My Reuters credentials meant that I had easy access to the world’s finest climate scientists. To my amazement, none of these would say categorically that the link between CO2 and global warming, now known as climate change, was a proven scientific fact. Some said human production of CO2 was a probable cause, others that it might make some contribution; some said CO2 had no role at all. Everybody agreed that the climate had warmed over the last 10,000 years as the ice age retreated, but most weren’t really sure why. The sun’s radiation, which changes over time, was a favoured culprit.

That kind of balanced reporting — relating the facts and the arguments from both sides — eventually disappeared, at Reuters as well as at most other media outlets. Winton at first chalks this up to plain laziness:...

[Bob434]

it sure is- they are attempting world domination- and biden seems hell bent on boosting their chances by giving away our sovereignty to them by subjecting us to the WHO’s rules and regulations during pandemics- they love to emphasize that doi9ng so will be ‘Legally Binding” too-

The left are in an all out assault and hostile takeover of this country- When oblama said he would ‘fundamentally transform’ the nation- he and his ilk meant every word of it- and because they control all the power- they are succeeding mostly- though thankfully we are winning smaller skirmishes with them in the courts- but not enough-

[Rinnwald]

... and implement global socialism.

You know, the good kind, I have people tell me. Like Star Trek, not the kind that killed the Aral Sea or the kind that runs on coal.

[MtnClimber]

I don’t see how CO2 impacts warming. It only absorbs 3 narrow spectral lines in the IR spectrum. Water vapor has a very broad IR absorption spectrum that covers the three CO2 absorption frequencies. Since water vapor is abundant it would be rare that a CO2 molecule got a chance to absorb any IR and it would not change the total IR absorption if it did.

[PeterPrinciple]

I don’t see how CO2 impacts warming. It only absorbs 3 narrow spectral lines in the IR spectrum. Water vapor has a very broad IR absorption spectrum that covers the three CO2 absorption frequencies. Since water vapor is abundant it would be rare that a CO2 molecule got a chance to absorb any IR and it would not change the total IR absorption if it did.

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Too much thinking for liberals and govt.

[MtnClimber]

Too much thinking for liberals and govt.

If the libs and .gov told the truth they would just say that what they really want is to control everything including the means of production.

[cuban leaf]

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