Archive for the ‘Climate’ Category
Penguin Crisis
On the heels of Al Gore’s nonsensical “challenge“, from the AP comes the alarming news: Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil
With a headline like that, you just know what’s coming:
But biologist Erli Costa of Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University suggested weather patterns could be involved.
“I don’t think the levels of pollution are high enough to affect the birds so quickly. I think instead we’re seeing more young and sick penguins because of global warming, which affects ocean currents and creates more cyclones, making the seas rougher,” Costa said.
As I mentioned a few days back…climate change has become TRUTH. Any behavior we don’t understand can now be attributed to climate change, without the inconvenience of actually doing the science.
“Climate Change” – the new “Global Warming”
CNN.com led with this story recently:
“Climate change makes island kids bony, stunted”
Yet for a good portion of the day, the actual story did not mention climate once. Later, the story was amended:
Maria is fighting to live, wasting away in her remote village where aid officials say climate change has brought on a severe drought in recent years.
Not scientists. Not researchers. AID WORKERS.
Look, I’m not a scientist either, but it doesn’t take one to recognize what’s going on here. CNN runs a section called “Planet in Peril”, which is basically a folder where they file stories about how much humans are mucking things up. This looks like a classic case of journalists driving the news rather than the news driving the journalists.
Are droughts a new phenomenon? Is this the first time there’s been a drought in Timor? I thought droughts have been occurring for as long as humans have been on the earth.
Where’s the science? It seems as far as anyone is concerned, the debate is over, group-think has been established. No need to back these claims up with research before putting them on your front page.
And when it’s on CNN’s front page, for a lot of people it BECOMES truth.
