UN and Oxfam caught bribing media to write crusading climate stories
By Ian Wishart
News journalists are being bribed by the United Nations and the Oxfam charity to write scare stories about climate change ahead of the global climate treaty negotiations in Paris later this year.
Details of the bribes – which take the form of ego-boosting “awards”, global travel in CO2 generating airliners and financial payments – are contained in a news release just published by the UNDP today, an organisation headed by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
Journalists’ codes of ethics prohibit being induced to give favourable coverage, but those rules have increasingly been ignored in recent years by the use of backdoor mechanisms like funding journalism “awards” as a means of generating content and rewarding propaganda-writers.
New Zealand’s major media, like the TV3 network, have frequently covered climate stories in the Pacific with the financial “assistance” of lobby groups like Oxfam and Greenpeace.
The full text of the news release follows:
15 September 2015 – Oxfam will support the Voice2Paris global storytelling contest launched in August by the United National Development Programme (UNDP) by providing three additional fellowships for participating journalists to cover the UN Conference on Climate Change, COP21, in Paris in December. Oxfam’s contribution to the contest aims at encouraging journalists’ participation in climate change reporting and raising public awareness of climate actions.
“The contest is a fantastic opportunity to create awareness of the harmful impacts of climate change on communities, and of potential opportunities in climate-vulnerable developing countries. This is also a great opportunity for young journalists to strengthen their perception of climate change and to frame it not merely as an environmental issue but also as an issue of social justice and poverty alleviation” said Wang Binbin, Manager of the Climate Change and Poverty Team, Oxfam Hong Kong.
The storytelling contest targets writers 35 years and under from developing countries who want to contribute – locally and internationally – towards greater public awareness of climate change…
Read more: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/17255/un-and-oxfam-caught-bribing-journalists-to-write-climate-change-scare-stories/
[disclosure: Ian Wishart is the author of climate change books Air Con and Totalitaria, but has not sought or accepted payment from lobbyists]
How charities spend your donations
Millions of people donate money to such charities, thinking that the’yre working towards eliminating poverty, when in fact the Green movement fights against things like GMO rice, and they promote the Global Warming fraud to keep starving people in poverty.
Sounds to me like it is time to Submit a Story regarding Climate Change and how it will affect the amount of personal budgets that will need to be available for spending on Energy costs
“Poverty alleviation”???? What on earth. Increasing the cost of energy is a direct tax on poor people. And this will somehow bring them out of poverty. What planet are these people from?
[snip – policy violation and off topic, we don’t discuss GMO food here -mod]]
You conspiracy theorist you!!! (sarc) MEME=More Evil Motives Exposed. Lewandowsky finally has evidence that MEME’s are “seeping” into the climate debate!
The words ‘Lewandowsky’ and ‘evidence’ don’t belong in the same sentence.
or waste?
In politics money corrupts — and a lot of money buys a hell of a lot of corruption.
Eugene WR Gallun
If you think that the solution is to get money out of politics, that’s impossible.
As long as govt has the power to control people’s lives, people will spend whatever it takes to influence politicians. Look at how hard politicians have worked to get around all existing campaign finance laws. To the point of ignoring them completely when they feel they can get away with it.
So sad the Bern supporters don’t get this.
“The storytelling contest …”
Describes the media’s efforts up until now perfectly!
My thoughts too. These guys would put the Brothers Grimm to shame.
The headline “This is why media coverage of climate debate has been corrupted” explains everything now.
But the Grimm brothers knew they were writing fantasies. These ‘journalists’ actually want people to treat what they are writing as if it’s true, causing millions of deaths from starvation and cold, as they go. But, in this, they are just following a long and well-established road: Stalin caused millions of deaths in his own country, Hitler gassed millions, Mao starved millions, Pol Pot killed millions in his reeducation camps.
When you get down to it, climate science, which is just a branch of socialism, is just grim.
The formative years of the Brothers Grimm were during the Dalton Minimum, when life for many folk were very grim.
A green funeral? Has to be Parsee style then. DuckDuckGo it…
“This is also a great opportunity for young journalists to strengthen their perception of climate change and to frame it not merely as an environmental issue but also as an issue of social justice and poverty alleviation…”
It is going to take some very creative “storytelling” to explain how sharp reductions in the use of fossil fuels is going to alleviate poverty or provide for social justice. But I’m sure these young journalists are up to the task. All they need is a fervid imagination that is unrestrained by reality. It will be interesting to see if the winner sticks with their chosen field of journalistic propaganda or is inspired to go on to a career of creative writing in the genre of fantasy, contemporary horror, or science fiction.
Can’t be sicience fiction.
That requires building a consistent and logical set of rules for the story you are tellling.
And consistency and logic seems to be severely lacking from most of the “green death” crowd.
Helen Clark, a former, eminently cool-headed prime minister of New Zealand, must have gone bananas. I think this initiative will be a source of laughter all over the world. She has lost her political nous.
Helen Clark once almost fell out of the plane. Door malfunction. Short after her government busted Mossad stealing NZ passports. Yes, she was level headed but not pliable enough for NWO.
Explanation required. Israel’s Mossad not busted, per se. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel%E2%80%93New_Zealand_passport_scandal
@tomer, they never confessed of course but they were busted all right. Like the French spies who sank the Rainbow Warrior. NZ may be small but we are not stupid.
Exactly David. Non-profits taking tax-free money from donations and piping it to other sectors to support their political views, which then fuel the “proof machine”.
This will put in jeopardy their tax free status. There are very clear constraints, this is the angle to fight this crap from.
Many years ago a prime minister in NZ removed such status from CORSO regardless of the ethics of the action CORSO collapsed in the funding stakes.
The public deserves a lot more investigation of this type. The problem has been more widespread than this story describes.
and this is just part of it, the advertising $’s also are spent in the favorable press, as well its so easy to shame someone who doesnt tow the line…..”you dont care about the environment”, “you support more pollution” etc etc etc
someone who doesn’t tow the line….
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It should be toe the line – not pull on it
And they are getting away with it!
At least they accurately call it “storytelling.” Journalists used to get paid to uncover, and tell, the truth. Now, journalism is about fitting the narrative telling a story.
Boy times have changed.
A number of years ago, the UN Climate Conference was held in Cancun, Mexico, so diplomats and NGOs from all over the world could come together and discuss what to do about the climate.
That week, Cancun had some of the coldest December weather in history (mildly cool and overcast – hey, it’s a resort town).
A day after it turned cool, almost all of the important politicians and most of the press left (with several days of the conference still to go). Because it’s incredibly important to talk about the climate, but only when the weather is nice enough to sit on the beach while doing so…
“——shame someone who doesnt tow the line…”
It’s TOE the line.
Yeah, traditionally. This variant arises from a similar metaphor. I like them both. Both quite apt.
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The adept can toe the line while towing the line. Serfs, all.
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Ah, but can they line the toe? And do they need a toe liner to line it with?
They tow it up a little here
They tow it down a little there
And soon enough they’re going to find
The trend will be a square.
Matt,
Yeah.
But English is a very adaptable tongue.
Five years ago, I’d’ve given you several plusses.
No doubt you are right – but Scott has actually communicated.
You understood – enough to give orthographic advice.
I understood, too.
Communicate to your audience.
A group of socially aware 14 year olds will understand more than an experientially-gifted old fart like me – if it’s in Facebookish or Twitterese.
Me – I like sentences, some with clauses and sub-clauses [No – not little Santas!].
Auto
Yeah, I’ve given up trying to explain what the word, “decimate,” actually means. Today it’s synonymous with annihilate. My objection is that we now have two words meaning exactly the same thing, when they once had two distinctly different meanings. We are losing the preciseness and flexibility of our language, while increasing its redundancy and vagueness.
Jtom,
So – what you clearly describe – decimate/annihilate – is poor communication.
Your conclusion is reasonable – but, because English is a living language, new words rise.
Decapitate or decapitation – literally beheading – is already coming close to the old decimate.
Auto
Toe rags the lot of them.
dont leave the EU out of this either. They have been paying the BBC for something.
Obama is also funding such nonsense.
He’s just ordered more icebreakers to keep up with the Russkies and all that, well, you know–MELTED ice!
Sort of like the story this past Sunday about the melting Glaciers in the Cascades reported on by the Seattle times… And caught by Dr. Don Easterbrook, Glaciologist / Geologist who had recently been doing his own studies of some of the Glaciers in the Cascades and who refutes some of the “Facts” in the Seattle Times story.
Mt. Baker glaciers disappearing? A response to the Seattle Times.
The Bigaciousest Lie.
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Jeepers.
Cancun.
Bali.
Paris.
Copenhagen.
What next? Tahiti?
You were expecting Bangladesh or clear cut tracts in the Amazon?
They have a lot to discuss, or more lies to think up. SO! How about a round the world cruise to visit all the countries that will be under water after thermageddon and 6m sea level rise.
QE2 or a Norwegian Cruise ship for 5000 could be booked. Maybe 2 ships, to take all the CAGW journalists and eco-terrorists.
Imagine that, an Ark-load of climate scientists and climate camp followers. Don’t let Henrik Ibsen find out.
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc5.htm
“This often misunderstood Norwegian playwright once remarked, “With pleasure I will torpedo the ark.””
The problem with ship loads of Alarmists is they have a distressing tendency to get caught in ice.
Let’s call it B Ark.
PiperPaul, pipped me to it. But don`t forget what happened to the Golgafrinchans left behind!
Nah, Tahiti will be under water by then.
Let’s hope not. The highest point in Tahiti is 7352 ft above sea level.
Another good example of the “Global Warming Perperual Motion Machine” They fund alarmist global warming papers to be written and then claim the papers give overwhelming proof of Global Warming. It is like the recent comment about the NOAA call for papers. This clearly showed that they were only interested in papers that proved any aspect of the “Science is Settled” global warming so that they could then claim……. So as I said Global Warming perpetual motion .
“Global Warming Perpetual Motion Machine”
Climate feedback loop, but not the one the professional alarmists are always on about.
It should not just be a localized complaint about greens when they substitute rising seas and climate scare for land subsidence in Bangladesh and other river deltas. They need to be continuously hounded for that substitution of science with climate fraud.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/the-next-genocide.html?src=me
This is the direct payments to write stories which is only half the story. What else happens is that NGOs fund TV programmes which are then shopped around to TV (the BBC laps them up) as “documentaries”, but which are really propaganda and the source of funding is never revealed.
Thanks, Anthony. Not “News” exactly.
This is a very sad state of things; corruption seems to be more attractive than virtue to many, they just want to “get ahead” by all and any means.
The news media has a strong tradition of skirting the truth, going back to the bias of Walter Cronkite, through Dan Rather, and on through such luminaries as Brain Williams. Why should any of this come as a surprise?
The one that always bothered me was Pol Pot. It did not take rocket scientists to figure out what was going on over there and everybody and his brother was leaking what would have been award winning documentation of the Holocaust all at the same time the UN was installing Pol Pot in “observer” status. Not a single major western news organization published anything about it until after the Vietnamese invaded and cited the genocide as a reason for having to take action! “News” organizations my Ass!
Noam Chomsky was a Pol Pot supporter, denied that the slaughter took place.
Yep – Chomsky went out of his way to condemn those bringing news of the slaughter as smearing the peaceful and benevolent Khmer Rouge.
Sort of the way Paul Ehrlich insists that the “inevitable” collapse of human population is not the result of taking his advice but some kind of “law” of biology. The “environment” will only be happily “balanced” once human population levels drop to between 500,000 million to a billion worldwide. Then, apparently, all evolution proceeds at the pace that is forever locked to an Avatar like rhythm of “naturalness”. It’s amazing to me that these guys aren’t laughed out of academia or at this stage tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail!
Let’s not forget the monetary awards (like the $100,000 Heinz prize) that climate scientists (like James Hansen) get.
(But that’s OK, although apparently it violates federal regulations, because “it’s for the grandchildren.” (Al Capone could plead the same excuse.))
Heize married to sec of state moron john kerry
When you are saving the world from evil, I mean Climate change, and have to battle inhuman pagans, I mean climate deniers, than any manner of non-ethical or immoral behavior becomes justified as ethical and moral.
Add to that everyone has a need and a price. The amount of the awards was not shown, but I imagine a the right level of award will cause a skeptic to suddenly start writing on the “harmful impacts of climate change”.
It’s all good in climate change land.
NGO’s are like governments only less accountable.
hunter, so true. NGO’s usually live on government grants and tax exemptions and their work is sweet–do what you wish, pay yourself enormous salaries, hold lavish parties and call them fund raising. and on and on. NGOs are, for the most part, just appendages of the Ministry of Truth.
I’m not convinced there are enough bribes to create all the biased reporting out there. Most of it is written by true-believers.
And the best way to make a True-Believer is ???
And ijjits.
“I’m not convinced there are enough bribes….”
Hence the “storytelling contest” – you dangle the carrot of cash, prizes and (always valuable to reporters) awards to ambitious under-35 SJWs and you get an inundation of alarmist doom and gloom articles all over the world while having to actually pay for only a microscopically-small part of it.
Think of the contestants as unpaid interns willing to work for a raffle ticket.
“Wang Bin bin, Manager of the Climate Change and Poverty Team, Oxfam Hong Kong.” ……………… So for Oxfam, Poverty and Climate Change walk hand in hand – one idea that needs to be whanged in the bin?
the biggest scam was allowing a country to define itself as “developing”….
…then vote if they got paid
Well, here in quotes is my scare story about climate change. I just made it up; that being an epistemological basis used in scare stories that the UN and the Oxfam charity are bribing people to write.
Will I be offered a bribe from the UN or the Oxfam charity for my story? They can email me via the ‘Contact Me’ tool at my website.
John
Oxfam spends 25% of its funds on wages and running costs
Oxfam’s income flows in from governments around the world, including £45.9milion from UK taxpayers.
the charity paid seven of its most senior bosses a combined £700,000 plus benefits such as contributions towards private school fees for up to three children. It has also subsidised the personal tax bills of some highly paid executives on the basis they live in countries with ‘high tax rates’.
maybe if oxfam wasn’t taking such a big cut from governments, the taxes would be lower?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3193050/Oxfam-spends-25-funds-wages-running-costs-Charity-spent-103m-year-including-700-000-bonuses-senior-staff.html#ixzz3lpaom5Vj
When I worked for Oxfam fifty years ago, they spent 11% of income on running costs and 4% on fund raising. The remaining 85% went on aid. Obviously many things have deteriorated in Oxford since then.
Or it might have been 4% on running costs and 11% on fund raising – not sure now. The 85% is correct though.
Capitalism must die! UN and Oxfam bribes are fine if they lead to the death of capitalism. That is what the Paris meeting will be about.
“Journalists’ codes of ethics”
Cirrusly?
SHAME !!!
“Oxfam will support … storytelling”
Sound pretty accurate. The telling of tall stories is rewarded.
The taller the tale, the bigger the first place reward. Journalists (proprgandist) jumping higher, diving deeper, coming out drier then ever before,
Here is updated terminology for our times. Runaway Climate Change Scare Tactics in a Post-enlightened Science Era.
I replied to “Climate Watch” on another thread, but that comment fits better here:
Climate Watch says:
… your presupposed conclusion that climate change is a fabrication…
What does that even mean? The climate has always changed. Please explain more clearly what you’re trying to say.
You also say that CO2 correlates with the Industrial Revolution. No argument there. But there’s a problem with the IPCC’s contention that changes in CO2 cause changes in global temperature. There is no evidence for that.
There is plenty of evidence showing that ∆T causes subsequent changes in ∆CO2. There is lots of data showing that happens, on time scales from months, to hundreds of thousands of years. But I cannot find any data showing that ∆T is caused by ∆CO2 (other than a very rare one-off coincidence).
The IPCC’s basic premise was wrong, so no wonder its conclusions are wrong, and why it cannot make consistent, correct predictions.
Next, you write:
I am honestly asking people to point me toward research done to show that the irrefutable addition of greenhouse gases by humans could occur and have no impact on climate…
That is asking folks to prove a negative. The best I can do is point you to the climate Null Hypothesis, which has never been falsified. It states that if no measurable or observed changes occur, then the alternate hypothesis (in this case, the conjecture that CO2 causes dangerous global warming) is falsified.
You also say that computer models demonstrate that introducing higher CO2 levels into the atmosphere will impact climate. But it hasn’t. The models were wrong. There is nothing either unusual or unprecedented happening; everything we observe now has happened in the past, and to a greater degree. Furthermore, CO2 levels have been more than 15X higher in the past, without ever triggering runaway global warming — or really, any global warming. That’s because almost all of the warming effect from CO2 takes place within the first few dozen ppm. At current concentrations of ≈400 ppm, any CO2 induced warming is too minuscule to measure.
Not one alarming climate prediction has come true. If someone was trying to convince you of something and used numerous failed predictions to make their case, wouldn’t you begin to doubt what they were telling you?
That’s just what’s happening. Even a few years ago, when there was an article in the major media about AGW, reader comments under the article contained many posts that expressed concern.
But no more. Now, most comments ridicule the man-made global warming scare. It’s because the IPCC and their side of the debate have cried “WOLF!!” for too long, and too often. The public is starting to reject their false alarm. And once they lose the public, they will never get them back.
The “dangerous man-made global warming” scare is based primarily on measurement-free assertions, and on peer reviewed papers, which the Climategate email leak showed are tightly controlled by a small clique of gate-keepers, and most of all, it is being propped up by the immense piles of money supporting the climate alarmist narrative — more than $100 billion to date, and that’s just in the U.S.
The goal is ‘carbon’ taxes, not science. If CO2 emissions can be taxed, that would generate a huge flow of money to the government, since just about every industrial process emits CO2.
But the downside is that we citizens will be forced to pay for those carbon taxes, in the form of much higher prices for all goods and services. In the words of one community organizer, prices will “necessarily skyrocket”. On everything.
Those in charge of the developed nations are salivating at the prospect of every government’s wet dream from time immemorial: taxing the air we breathe! And the underdeveloped countries are being shamelessly bribed outright for their votes — with money confiscated from already hard-bitten taxpayers.
The whole ‘catastrophic AGW’ narrative has become a giant hoax. A scam. It may have started with good intentions and a concern that maybe Arrhenius was right. But it has morphed into a corrupt racket. And we are the marks.
The last thing our economy needs is more taxes. We already have too much to pay for:
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2525/9035/original.jpg
Looks like a hockey stick, where have I seen that before?
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We’re being pucked!
Don’t forget that central tenet of AGW – the tropical tropospheric hotspot. Still lost and alone, somewhere. Perhaps in the Southern Ocean on vacation.
It goes on vacation there in the Southern Hemisphere Winter?
A masochistic glutton for punishment is the TTSH.
They must be getting desperate if they have dispensed with any form of under the radar, subterfuge, and publish this so brazenly?
Or maybe just breathtakingly arrogant. And desperate.
The Arch Propagandist Joseph Goebbels would be proud!!
“Muahhhhhaaahhaaaahhaaa!!!” (Useful idiots bleat in unison!)
“to frame it not merely as an environmental issue but also as an issue of social justice and poverty alleviation”
Poverty alleviation: ie, transferring money from the taxpaying suckers to the ‘journalists’? Could they be any more blatant in their outrageous socialist agenda?
“Journalist code of ethics” I laughed till I threw up at that one.
“UN and Oxfam”?
Wikipedia: Oxfam
Oxfam was originally founded at 17 Broad Street in Oxford, Oxfordshire, in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics…
UN and Oxfam today are practically interchangeable:
UK Oxfam: Oxfam’s CEO, Directors and Trustees
Oxfam’s Leadership Team
Mark Goldring, CEO
Mark has decades of experience … in the field for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)…
Francoise Vanni, Campaigns, Policy and Influencing Director
Other key development roles include Chief of Communications for UNICEF, Mexico…
Tim Hunter, Fundraising Director
Prior to joining Oxfam, he was International Fundraising Director for UNICEF, based in Geneva, for 5 years. During this period UNICEF’s private sector income grew strongly to $1.5 billion. He led a global fundraising team operating in more than 50 countries and working with flagship corporate partners…
Jack Lundie, Communications Director
Before Save the Children, he worked at the BBC in a variety of roles, including strategic creative development for London 2012, Deputy Editor of Blue Peter and as innovation lead for BBC Sport. Prior to this, he led Comic Relief’s interactive team through two Red Nose Days and a Sport Relief…
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/our-trustees
Oxfam International:
Winnie Byanyima is Executive Director of Oxfam International…
She served … as Director of Gender and Development at the United Nations Development Program. She co-founded the 60-member Global Gender and Climate Alliance and chaired a UN task force on gender aspects of the Millennium Development Goals, and on climate change…
https://www.oxfam.org/en/winnie-byanyima-oxfam-international-executive-director
no doubt many more UN/Oxfam connections can be dug up at Oxfam’s various International websites.
Biggest scam ever foisted upon the public.
and gore’s and obama’s nobel peace prizes?
were they anything but a bribe to deliver america’s wealth to the belgian overlords?
The Nobel Prize isn’t what it used to be…
http://www.moonbattery.com/free-nobel-peace-prize.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3QqO8EXd-II/Stit9IsU_gI/AAAAAAAAs5k/v3d4kU1umVQ/s1600-h/Cracker%2520Jacks.jpg
A twisted system of lies is required to perpetuate the obvious perilous base of all the climate narrative. The base notion that a 15% change in the atmospheric concentration of a minor trace gas from .035% to .04% is the chief driver of planetary temperatures/ climate/ weather/ ocean chemistry or whatever is patently absurd. It held together entirely by repetition and more lies. “Make the lie big, make it simple, repeat it frequently and people will come to believe it”- Joseph Goebbels. It is all propaganda and brainwashing to conceal a truly sinister outcome that no sane person would ever sign on for. The scam is all about the destruction of our civilization.
Ah so that’s what she is up to now. Ruined New Zealand when she was PM, and then shot off to the UN when she lost her last election. So she landed herself with a cushy job at the UN spouting propaganda along with her fake husband. The UN can keep you Helen. You were mostly responsible for making NZer’s who live and work in Australia second class, temporary, residents.
100% correct. Also bought the AGW garbage hook line and sinker. We don’t want her back.
It is inconceivable to me that none of the UN and Gov. officials (or “presstitutes”) promoting “carbon taxes” don’t know that it will cause a significant rise in the price of food and other basic necessities. . which means certain death for millions of people who can barely keep themselves and their families alive now (and millions taking their place on the brink of starvation). The more “successful” the drive for carbon taxes, the greater that “guaranteed” carnage will be (quite possibly killing tens or even hundreds of millions of human beings) . .
I believe they are (by and large) well aware of this consequence . . which it to say I believe you CAGW “deniers” here and everywhere else are perfectly justified in resisting what I see as a grotesque charade, and I thank you.
I’m sure there will be plenty of Paris-ite press-titutes around.
Well I noticed long ago, that an “eco-warrior” is seemingly in general a relatively rich person from a relatively rich country who would be willing to burn vast quantities of fossil fuel to fly half way around the world (maybe 150 gallons of kerosene per passenger per ten hours of flight) to a location where this individual would use attention-seeking tactics to resist the construction of a hydroelectric power scheme.
Usually such a scheme is intended to provide cheap renewable energy to poor people in a poor country.
Criticisms of such projects are always numerous and mostly spurious.
Here is a typical gem from an intellectually defective article in our favourite leftist rag – the Grauniad:
“An interesting ecotourism industry has been developing in the area lately, which would be damaged by the dams.”
O.M.G. forgive me for not giving the slightest shit about the effects of a hydroelectric dam on the activities of kerosene guzzling eco-tourists, who visit to have an eco-holiday in a sparsely populated region of Patagonia.
These morons seem to be so blinded by ego-aggrandizement and pathological self-deceit that they cannot see what is plainly obvious to all of the rest of us:
That they are committed to actively resisting access to cheap renewable energy for the poor.
Whilst they themselves are rich and are guzzling up far more than their fair share of the world’s fossil fuel reserves.
Here is the link to the full, obscene, stupid and misguided article that I quoted above. Read and weep:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/may/12/chile-hydroelectric-patagonian-destruction
Isn’t ‘eco-tourism’ an oxymoron?
If the author include the career threats against journalists that don’t tow the line the corruption is much bigger than this.
“The contest is a fantastic opportunity to create awareness of the harmful impacts of climate change on communities…”
If the impacts of climate change are so harmful, why wouldn’t communities already be aware of them? Why the need to “create awareness”? Are the harmful effects of climate change so tiny and subtle that you need to have the microaggressions of the climate pointed out to you by young, inexperienced, but highly indoctrinated journalists to avoid missing them completely?
The genius gambit here, is that we must instruct all communities, that whilst they are not directly seeing the “harmful impacts” then they are quite seriously impacting upon another community elsewhere.
So, these “harmful effects” are real – BUT – they are always somewhere else.
Actually, they move their attention about from one subject to another, because each year offers up a new opportunity to select from a range of weather events and draw alarming conclusions.
2005 was a good year for concern about Atlantic Hurricanes striking the U.S. coastline. Clear evidence that climate change threatened to hurl hurricane and tornadoes at the U.S.
2004 and 2011 were good years for tsumanis, clear evidence for climate change induced tsunamis.
2001 was a good year for collapsing skyscrapers, clear evidence for climate change caused skyscraper collapse.
2014 was a good year for the obliteration of Malaysian Airlines aircraft, clear evidence of the capacity of climate change to destroy planes.
Etc,
Luckily for the “extreme event” spotters – something is always going on somewhere.
Since the world is very large and lots of stuff happens every day.
Some of that stuff will be inevitably, not very nice.
There is no history of journalistic impartiality so why is this news? The yellow press is alive and well and always has been. That bullshit claim of being the forth estate is just that. Is anyone surprised? Really?
Actually, I can now speak from experience and tell the world that journalists are having far more of an effect upon the developing events than merely distorting public perceptions of weather related disasters.
I live very close to the region of the Somerset Levels which recently suffered from the effects of catastrophic flooding.
I have looked back on the internet and found that prior to the flooding the BBC was willing to report the views of certain people who were stating their concerns that – since the required maintenance of the main man-made banked drainage channels had been suspended in the early 1990’s – then we would soon face a catastrophic situation in which one winter of heavy rain would produce a flow that exceeded the capacity of the compromised system – and thereby caused severe flooding.
This event was predicted quite specifically, in advance. And I will provide a link to such an article below.
HOWEVER – when precisely that event took place it was immediately jumped upon by the usual suspects as evidence of climate change induced catastrophe.
By painting the event as a climate change/extreme weather induced problem – it was then possible to propose that the the solution to the problems on the Levels was clearly that we must spend hundreds of BILLIONS of extra cash on subsidies for off-shore wind generators in the North Sea.
You see, the logic is clear. In summary:
Problem: Flooding in Somerset Levels.
Solution: £billions of spending in subsidies for off-shore wind turbines.
Local drainage experts are seemingly dumb-struck, Because the real solution would be the reinstatement of regular annual maintenance work costing only a few million.
Actually, I do personally know two individuals who sit on the Brue Drainage Board, one an engineer and one a farmer. Whilst these two individuals are clear that reasonable strategies are not being adopted and in many cases it does not seem possible to reasonably discuss them they cannot understand why they constantly meet with a wall of imbecility.
So they have explained to me their baffling inability to communicate the need for maintenance of the entire man-made drainage system.
And I have been able to explain to them, to some extent – the vast system of skewed interests and incentives that have lead to the abandonment of reason, good judgement and moral behaviour.
What is clear, is that whilst prior to the disaster it was possible for a journalist to explain that without the immediate implementation of a multi-million pound maintenance program – disaster would be soon coming – NOW, that this disaster has occurred then all journalists (except North and Booker), are toeing the line and only making reference to the disaster as the result of climate weirding.
Of course, by denying that the event may have had primarily a non-climate change induced cause (who are the real deniers?) then journalists are actually assisting in ensuring that the problem is neither understood nor solved. And ensuring that it continues or worsens in the future.
AND – therefore, journalists have now become a CAUSE of the catastrophes that they are paid to report on.
I’m sure that a similar process is occurring elsewhere in the world.
Let us pity the poor, since they are at the mercy of imbecilic journalists, concerned celebrities and scientifically illiterate “experts”.
Oh, and let us not forget the occasional rock-star or software billionaire.
When the world’s poor have friends like these rushing to their aid – then natural catastrophe is the last thing that they need to worry about!!!
Here is the BBC talking quite specifically about the oncoming catastrophe BEFORE the catastrophe of 2013/14:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-24143795
I was wondering who coined the term “climate denier?” They should be applauded for single handily postponing this irritating ruse for years. You cannot have a conversation with environmentslists or greens without them using term ad nauseum. To be skeptical of climate chane is to be a skeptic of thier God. They are right as in thier is no debate. There is no debate with radical fundamentalists of any religion.
‘There is no debate with radical fundamentalists of any religion.’
Oh yes there is: Here is the 97% debating the fundamentalist 3%: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=john+oliver+climate+change&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=7DB2C1D6488D1CC0A16E7DB2C1D6488D1CC0A16E
I give zero money to charity. I have family members and friend who are sometimes in need. That is where my charity money goes ….. charity begins and ends at home. Anything else is guilt money.
Simple rule…if the chief exec of a charity earns more than me, they get not one penny.
I just said this under “Are the Oceans Becoming More Acidic?”.
It seems apply.
Gunga Din
September 16, 2015 at 3:32 pm
The language of science needs to be precise or nothing precise is communicated. The language of sales only needs to precise enough so as not to be sued for false advertising. The language of politics only needs to precise enough to leave the desired impression.
If the big bad molecule we need to control was Oxygen then we’d be hearing all about “oxidation” of this or that even though Oxygen isn’t the only thing that oxidizes….but it sounds like it must have something to do with it.
“Alkaline”, “alkalinity”, “neutralization”, “acidification”?
The use of “Climate Change” (as in the IPCC) and “Global Warming”?
Are the terms being used to be precise or to sell an idea for political purposes?
Our former PM Tony Abbott, lost out to a long running campaign by the media (mainly the ABC) and the new PM. One of Tony’s best quotes was “Socialism disguised as environmentalism”. That never went down well with the GG’s at the ABC. Unfortunately Tony paid the price.
“Journalists’ codes of ethics prohibit being induced to give favourable coverage…”
I don’t read newspapers or watch the boob tube anymore, but my understanding is the whatever “code” journalists might have these days is very flexible when it comes to pushing the lefty agenda.
Ever since charitable organisations like Oxfam became politicised over the issue of global warming, I ceased making donations to them. I also ceased donating to WWF when it became one of the foremost activist groups in the climate-change business. WWF was primarily concerned with wildlife issues and conservation. No longer.