Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Extinction Rebellion is incensed that New York Times isn’t providing enough coverage of the climate crisis.
Arrests at protest over New York Times’ ‘unacceptable’ climate coverage
Protesters block avenue between Port Authority and NYT
Extinction Rebellion calls for better coverage of climate crisisAmanda Holpuch in New York
@holpuch
Sun 23 Jun 2019 06.14 AESTA climate change protest orchestrated by the Extinction Rebellion activist group briefly blocked Eighth Avenue in New York on Saturday afternoon, between the Port Authority transit hub and the home of the New York Times.
The New York police department (NYPD) said 70 people were arrested as they called for more effective media coverage of the dangers of climate change, in a dramatic demonstration that saw people stage a die-in in front of the newspaper building and disrupt traffic in midtown Manhattan.
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One protester, Donna Nicolino, told the Guardian she was ready to be arrested, because “we want the New York Times as well as all the other media to treat climate change as the crisis it is”.
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“The lack of coverage of the climate crisis is completely unacceptable,” said Becca Trabin, a member of Extinction Rebellion’s press and fundraising teams. “It’s a public safety crisis on a global scale.”
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A spokeswoman for the New York Times, Danielle Rhoades Ha, said that in 2018 the newspaper published 795 articles about the climate, including investigative stories and dispatches from across the globe about the impact of climate change.
“There is no national news organization that devotes more time, staff or resources to producing deeply reported coverage to help readers understand climate change than The New York Times,” Rhoades Ha said.
“We fully support this group’s right to express their point of view, even when we disagree with it as it relates to our coverage.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/22/new-york-times-protest-climate-crisis-coverage
For once I agree with the New York Times. In my opinion the NYT has an almost unbroken track record of publishing ridiculous climate stories and even occasionally promoting violence against climate skeptics.
I mean its kind of funny when a group of green fanatics turns on another group of greens, accuses their rivals of not being ideologically committed enough, but what exactly do Extinction Rebellion and The Guardian expect NYT to do, to up their coverage of climate change?
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The Democratic Party/Globalist Party has successfully created a brainwashed cult, and now we get to see it backfire as their own creation begins to self destruct. *grabs popcorn
What was the cost of protection from getting run over prior to getting arrested? Next time don’t arrest to see how long they last in the street. Add AOC to the group next time for the sport of it.
Who is behind the scenes doing the organizing and paying for these thugs to operate.
“… in a dramatic demonstration that saw people stage a die-in…”
I wonder how long ’til they embrace revolutionary suicide.
These people are so messed up ……. Occupy Extinction is way more apropos for the current anthropogenic bad weather movement.
I think this is just another sign that the alarmists feel like they are losing the argument, and so they stage this protest in front of the New York Times, not so much to castigate the New York Times, but to castigate all the leftwing media for not producing enough CAGW propaganda.
The polls on climate change show it to be at the bottom of the list of worries for most people, and the CAGW activists want that changed and FAST!
The New York Times produced 795 climate change articles last year. That’s more than two per day. But it’s not enough. That’s not the NYT’s fault, it is the fault of the weather, which does’t scare people vary much so they are not worried about it, despite all the scare stories produced by the NYT and other propaganda outlets.
It must be really frustrating for the CAGW activists to try so hard and then have the public reject them and their scare stories. Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! But there is no wolf to be seen. And no matter what the CAGW activists or the NYT do, it won’t materialize a Climate Wolf out of thin air, although it’s not for lack of trying.
Seriously? The NYT, which used to be a good newspaper, now posts more doom n gloom than almost anyone else. I live in New Orleans and at least once a week they post articles salivating for our demise. I find it amusing because if the sea level really does rise several feet they will have problems before we do – big problems.
Anyway Extinction Rebellion is off the hook. A few months ago they were stripping naked and gluing their body parts to things in English Parliament, which would have been more entertaining if they didn’t all have terrible bodies. Very skinny fat.
“… Anyway Extinction Rebellion is off the hook. A few months ago they were stripping naked and gluing their body parts to things in English Parliament, which would have been more entertaining if they didn’t all have terrible bodies. Very skinny fat. …”
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i.e. A lack of muscle tissue development due to the lack of exercise and personal effort.
Chronically low testosterone levels may also be at the heart of the appalling state of their atrophied bodies. A healthy testosterone level promotes the growth of muscle tissues, but also controls testicle growth and their health, and also the health and the quantity of sperm produced. Healthy testosterone is also the major hormonal influence in both male and female libidos and the human ‘sex-drive’.
In other words, give it a few decades and this may naturally sort itself out (and remove the offending good-for-nothing idiot DNA strain from the species genome).
Healthy testosterone levels are particular triggered and generated via vigorously overcoming muscle resistance to action, like walking up a steep hill or repeatedly lifting heavy weights. And the main biological prerequisite precursors of testosterone production are vitamin-A (a good diet), vitamin-D (from sunlight exposure), zinc (from a good diet) and good REM sleep.
i.e. good food and hard work in the sunlight then a good rested sleep makes for a healthy testosterone levels (even in females), which is something this lot have probably never experienced in their entire lives. Think also of all the twitter reading and texting quips at night that also make them REM sleep-deprived. So chronic low testosterone and lack of testicular development or health is quite likely here. Which also leads to erectile dysfunction and impotence.
Soft-cock-itis results and next thing you know you have an “extinction rebellion” on your hands!
It’s mostly a reversible condition if you eat a proper diet, get regular sunlight, and do some solid hard work, plus stop using twitter.
If you wanted a single holistic reason for why the Western world is not what it used to be for males or females, there’s the answer.
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Factors affecting testosterone levels may include:
Age: Testosterone levels gradually reduce as men age.[133][134] This effect is sometimes referred to as andropause or late-onset hypogonadism.[135]
Exercise: Resistance training increases testosterone levels,[136] however, in older men, that increase can be avoided by protein ingestion.[137] Endurance training in men may lead to lower testosterone levels.[138]
Nutrients: Vitamin A deficiency may lead to sub-optimal plasma testosterone levels.[139] The secosteroid vitamin D in levels of 400–1000 IU/d (10–25 µg/d) raises testosterone levels.[140] Zinc deficiency lowers testosterone levels[141] but over-supplementation has no effect on serum testosterone.[142]
Weight loss: Reduction in weight may result in an increase in testosterone levels. Fat cells synthesize the enzyme aromatase, which converts testosterone, the male sex hormone, into estradiol, the female sex hormone.[143] However no clear association between body mass index and testosterone levels has been found.[144]
Miscellaneous: Sleep: (REM sleep) increases nocturnal testosterone levels.[145] Behavior: Dominance challenges can, in some cases, stimulate increased testosterone release in men.[146] Drugs: Natural or man-made antiandrogens including spearmint tea reduce testosterone levels.[147][148][149] Licorice can decrease the production of testosterone and this effect is greater in females.[150]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone
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The best thing you can do for such people is to send them to a work camp where they’ll literally grow some balls.
Well, we can put an end to all this now. All we will need to do is to read this article carefully and give it the attention it deserves. Because after all, the GHE is total non sense..
https://de.scribd.com/document/414175992/CO21
Mate get a new hobby you are about 10 years late and no-one cares.
Gotta love it!
See what happens when English Language graduates jump on the Climate Change Gravy Train after a three day science course in genuflection at the Altar of Anthropogenic Catastrophy in the Temple of Doom!
It’s promethian!
Cheers
Mike
In the end, the fanatics and extremists of CAGW will all turn upon each other because of perceived deficiencies or lack of will or action, and they will devour each other like the Wild Beasts that they are. Everyone else will be greatly relieved.
The NYT has already sunk to new lows.
I noticed they tried to pass off as news things something from an environmental advocacy group recently. How does that work? Is it paid advertising that isn’t actually labeled as advertising?
Here is the article I’m referring to:
With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First?
The story is straight from a group called “The Center for Climate Integrity”, and the so-called “new research” isn’t anything peer-reviewed.
Never mind that it is ridiculously alarmist to talk about “saving” cities from a mere 3 mm/year sea level rise, but that’s the kind of verbiage you’d expect from an advocacy group, which should not be published verbatim in the NYT unless is it labeled as advertising.
I’m sure they will put New York City at the top of that list. After all they are the most important, right?
Bwahahahaha. If the NYT actually provided quality, true climate change coverage, the protestors would be back, only this time they’d be yelling for the NYT to shut up! They don’t want coverage or truth, they want propaganda which supports the pre-clusion.
***There is an actual word, “preclusion”, but it doesn’t mean what it should mean. In this context, it is the opposite of conclusion, a reasoned determination after gathering and evaluating the facts. Instead, they make a determination before gathering facts, and there is nothing reasoned about it except the “reasoning” around what contradictory facts should be ignored and excluded.
I wonder how much they got paid for their “action”?
As with the frontline protesters attacking the police in Hong Kong they certainly get paid. The outrage is that the media never question this, ever. Dark forces at work, Soros at the forefront.
If only they weren’t such bad actors.
I ran across this article a while back …
https://deadline.com/2016/11/shocked-by-trump-new-york-times-finds-time-for-soul-searching-1201852490/
Here’s a snip …
For starters, it’s important to accept that the New York Times has always — or at least for many decades — been a far more editor-driven, and self-conscious, publication than many of those with which it competes. Historically, the Los Angeles Times, where I worked twice, for instance, was a reporter-driven, bottom-up newspaper. Most editors wanted to know, every day, before the first morning meeting: “What are you hearing? What have you got?”
It was a shock on arriving at the New York Times in 2004, as the paper’s movie editor, to realize that its editorial dynamic was essentially the reverse. By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line.
Reality usually had a way of intervening. But I knew one senior reporter who would play solitaire on his computer in the mornings, waiting for his editors to come through with marching orders. Once, in the Los Angeles bureau, I listened to a visiting National staff reporter tell a contact, more or less: “My editor needs someone to say such-and-such, could you say that?”
The bigger shock came on being told, at least twice, by Times editors who were describing the paper’s daily Page One meeting: “We set the agenda for the country in that room.”
Having lived at one time or another in small-town Pennsylvania, some lower-rung Detroit suburbs, San Francisco, Oakland, Tulsa and, now, Santa Monica, I could only think, well, “Wow.” This is a very large country. I couldn’t even find a copy of the Times on a stop in college town Durham, N.C. To believe the national agenda was being set in a conference room in a headquarters on Manhattan’s Times Square required a very special mind-set indeed.
None of which apparently ever read the New York Times.
The bout of the century! Green on green action! The Useful Idiots vs. The Useless Media! ,
Arm both sides, I say, and let them fight it out gladiator style to the last man standing, who will hopefully die of his wounds shortly after.
One protester, Donna Nicolino, told the Guardian she was ready to be arrested, because “we want the New York Times as well as all the other media to treat climate change [in an even more trumped up scary] crisis [that we want it to be].
There. Fixed it for them.
I would suggest Riker’s Island for them…and lose the key.
“…its kind of funny when a group of green fanatics turns on another group of greens, accuses their rivals of not being ideologically committed enough…”
This is not unusual for extremist groups and not unlike 1920’s Italy and Germany where the Fascists and Communists – both committed socialist/totalitarian extremists – fought for power. With these extreme elements its all about power and domination, and requires silencing or destroying those who don’t toe the party line.
Every time I read an article about ‘climate change protests’…. or AOC’s ‘stream of unconsciousness’ utterances, I hear Barbara Streisand singing in the background “Send in the clowns. Don’t bother, their here!”
Dang! “they’re”
It’s important that WUWT readers stay healthy and wise to watch the climate crusades fail with cyclical cooling in coming years, even if it leads to the trite Edward Markey excuse of “who could have known.”
To that end I offer the following science-based supplement list.
1) vitamin D3 plus K2 plus magnesium
2) astaxanthin and lutein
3) NR or MNM or resveratrol and quercetin
4) curcumin
5) CoQ10
6) PQQ
7) krill oil
8) ellagic acid
9) EGCG
10) sulforaphane
The science says none of those supplements have any effect on people who eat balanced meals from vegetables fruits and some animal (fish, chicken) proteins and their associated natural fats (like oils from nuts).
But hey, supplements are multi-billion dollar industry that depends on convincing people otherwise, just like the climate change alarmism industry depends on convincing people that a natural trace gas rising is going to devastate the planet.
Here is a little sample from #3.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161010135418.htm
It is important that WUWT readers be wary of a mental condition called “orthorexia,” an overwhelming preoccupation with living a life obsessing about health threats and devoting great effort to supposedly healthy behaviors, beyond actual risk.
Speaking of mental….
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100222162011.htm
It is a reminder that for the fantic is not enough to believe , you must be pure in your faith and without doubt .
The irony is by such claims about the Times , these fanatics lose the middle ground who can see what nonsense this claims are . So actions like this should be encouraged.
The religious militants are accusing each other of Blasphemy!!
There will come the time that these new Greta’s clerics and climate manifestation kids will become pretorian guards of this new cult. Here in Europe, for now, you will only have a strange look or a small argue from someone calling you names if you say something that defies or cast doubt against CAGW.
Be aware that the time will come that one cant be stabbed or take a rock in the windshield if you are driving a non ethical “voiture” or for something else that will not be considered climatically good. Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear” becoming reality.
I’m between a rock and a hard place. Violent, uncompromising ‘students’ in Hong Kong or Extinction Rebellion chaos in London. Think I’ll take a quiet, safe and fun vacation in China.
Yeah those guys all love China but if they ever tried that sort of protest in China they would be sent to a re-education camp.
As they would anywhere except Western Europe, Australia, USA or Canada.
Are you all so sure it isn’t staged – in Association with the NYT? It’s publicity for both sides, no-one gets hurt, nothing gets damaged, the police get to pretend they’re doing their jobs, and all charges are dropped. It’s theatre.