VIA CHRIS MORRISON
Another €100,000 (£88,000, $107,000) was donated to a climate journalist through the fund of Spain’s second largest bank, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA (BBVA). Money is an annual presentation and has been launched recently arrive New Yorkers writer Elizabeth Kolbert. The bank said it gave her the cash “for her extraordinary ability to communicate in a serious, compelling way about the fundamental environmental challenges of our time”. BBVA is deeply involved in funding subsidy-heavy renewable technologies. It recently announced profit recognition for 2022 is 6.42 billion euros and notes that it has moved 50 billion euros into “sustainable business”. Previous cash recipients include Matt McGrath of BBCthe guardian newspaper and Marlowe Hood’s Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The organization was particularly impressed with Kolbert’s popular 2016 book, The Sixth Mass Extinction, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ‘non-fiction’. This is believed to have recorded the dramatic loss of species the planet is suffering. “A third of the corals that build reefs, a third of freshwater mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of mammals, a fifth of all,” she said. Reptiles and one-sixth of all bird species are being forgotten. For good measure, she claims that about half of all species living on Earth could disappear at the end of the century.
Kolbert is a Climate Disaster right out of the selection center. She fervently believes that humans can control the climate by regulating the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a proposition disputed by many scientists. She compares climate ‘deniers’ to flat earth people. What the ‘deners’ think about climate science, or rather how she perceives said science, is “completely unrelated“. Like most people in her world, she said, “I have no tolerance for those who deny the truth and disregard the truth.”
Fears of a sixth mass extinction are becoming very common in climate Armageddon circles and are strongly promoted by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). But it has one major flaw – lack of evidence. Most statements are generated by models and are opinions only. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 823 species of animals and plants (mostly animals) with extinct since 1500. If you’re in the Pulitzer Prize-winning territory of the sixth mass extinction, you can expect to be able to display more than 823 species that have gone extinct in 522 years.
WWF has been responsible for many extinction warnings since the organization’s Living Planet Index estimated at least 50% decline in vertebrate populations since 1970. But one group of Canadian biologists recently cast considerable doubt on this claim, suggesting that it is a cherry. They show that the estimate is made up of less than 3% of the vertebrate population. “If these severely declining populations are excluded, then the global trend will turn upward,” they point out. “More informative indicators are needed,” they conclude. This finding is perhaps not surprising given the small increase in CO2 over the past 40 years have created 14% more vegetation globally.
Five years ago, the famous Smithsonian paleontologist Doug Erwin dismissed talk of a sixth mass extinction as “garbage science“. He goes on to state that “many of those who make easy comparisons between the current situation and past mass extinctions have no clue as to the difference in the nature of the data, much less know the magnitude of mass extinctions recorded in marine fossils. The real record is.”
As regular readers know, MIT Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen believes that full climate report is absurd”. However, he admits it is almost universally accepted, despite the fact that in a normal world the counterarguments would be very convincing. “Perhaps trillions of dollars are funneled into every green project under the sun, and the relentless propaganda from funding-dependent academics and agenda-setting journalists, along with control politics is provided by Net Zero to elite groups in society, which currently says it’s not absurd, he suggests.
Neil Winton has 34 years working for the international news agency Reuters, including four years as a science and technology reporter covering global warming. He wrote a recent articles notes that anyone abusing people by calling them climate deniers is “betraying the fact that they know little about climate science or are too lazy to do their own research”. They are more interested in forcing their views in public and silencing the debate, he added. The idea that science is solved, he said, wouldn’t last long if reporters could bother using a search engine to reveal “scores if not hundreds of qualified scientists.” begged for a difference”.
in him new book on Net ZeroWinton notes, author Ross Clark alleges Reuters join an organization that “specializes in presenting partisan views on climate change and silencing those who dare to disagree by triggering the assertions of the hateful ‘denyer’”.
The organization is called Covering Climate Now (CC Now) and specializes in publishing-ready climate scary stories. The daily skepticism wrote about it in December under the title ‘How billionaires fill the media with fear and panic about climate‘. CC Now offers over 500 media operations and its ‘partners’ include some of the biggest names in the news publishing industry such as Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP, CBS news, ABC news And MSNBC News.
Winston notes that CC Now offers advice: “For God’s sake, don’t support climate deniers.” It said that articles that disparage scientific consensus or mock climate activism “do not belong to a serious news agency”. when Reuters Ask an outside organization for advice on how to report controversial issues, Winton asked.
He added: “If you dig deeper, you’ll find it uses only trivial words that are all too familiar to people like me, who have tried to bring real honesty and balance to the world. arguments. It presents itself as just another arrogant, belligerent outfit dedicated to stamping out those with whom it disagrees. Not a letter Reuters should be associated with, sure?
Chris Morrison is The Daily Skeptic Environment Editor.
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