“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive,” - Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion”
>Virtually every major publisher and broadcaster — from The Atlantic and Los Angeles Times to the Guardian and BBC — regularly churns out forecasts of a climate apocalypse. These outlets operate from a “post-truth” playbook: Amplify the most extreme prediction, discard it when disproven, and report the next scary story.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
— H. L. Mencken
Useful sites re: “Climate Change”:
The climate has and always will change. While I don’t think carbon emissions from coal fueled power plants and exhaust from planes, trains, and various vehicles do the environment or our health any good, I do think the harm is grossly overblown. The air quality in this country at least, has gotten better. I remember the smog summers of the 60’s and 70’s, haven’t seen one in the Northeast since. New technology brings emissions down drastically. The problem is countries like China who don’t give a damn and are building coal fired powerplants without clean tech. But whether or not that plays a significant role in climate change has not been proven as far as I’m concerned.
Note how the recent blackout of the entire country of Spain was reported. There were vague references to “atmospheric conditions” and other less than probable causes, but no one seemed to acknowledge the actual cause was the solar farms setting the entire grid out of sync causing the country wide shutdown.