Dangerous Warming
The New York Times claims that the “burning of fossil fuels is dangerously heating the planet.”
IN FACT, broad measures of human and environmental welfare related to global warming have remained stable or improved for the past 30–170 years, contrary to predictions that they would have radically degraded by now. These include but aren’t limited to:
- hurricane frequency & intensity.
- floods & droughts.
- forest mass & tree cover.
- foliage productivity.
- coral reef island area.
- mainland coastal area.
- extinctions.
- tornadoes.
- agricultural production.
- weather fatalities.
- weather economic damages.
The media’s drumbeat of apocalyptic claims about climate change accords with a strategy laid out in 1989 by a leading climatologist named Stephen Schneider. In a statement to Discover magazine, he declared that in order to “reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change”:
we have to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.
Schneider then added, “Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means both.”
The ClimateGate emails later proved that a number of the world’s leading climate scientists, by their own admissions, were not being honest.
That lack of honesty from academia is amplified by the media, leading to policies that impoverish people and causing hysteria that harms their mental health.
