From Government Accountability and Oversight (GAO):
Bloomberg reporter outed as tool of climate PR/cancelation campaign, Hill hearings:
‘Urgently’ pressing story for House “climate disinformation” hearings this week, which emails also show had been pitched since at least February just prior to a previous, scrubbed House ‘disinformation’ hearing
Defending Facebook’s “Climate Feedback” cancelation campaign of intimidating and harassing climate realists into silence, reporter assails FOIAing the public employees involved as the real ‘intimidation, ‘harassment’
The Emails showing media’s role affirm the coordinated Hill, media, activist climate PR effort to cancel opposition
Early last week a Bloomberg ‘cyber reporter’ named Margi Murphy began furiously emailing and calling two groups (Energy Policy Advocates and Government Accountability & Oversight), and seemingly anyone else for whom she could identify some association with the groups, expressing the ritual media complaint of “harassing climate scientists” — by which she of course meant seeking public records in the sincerest form of flattering Greenpeace, which pioneered such uses of open records laws. It was clumsy but, again, not unfamiliar as these stories get spun out every few years during moments of climate-complex desperation.
Then new emails released Friday evening made things much more interesting.
This reporter’s specific grievance was the apparent tyranny of using public records laws to obtain public release of public records showing how public servants use their publicly financed positions and resources to help out Facebook’s cancelation campaign, “Climate Feedback”. That operation is styled as an ‘independent fact checker’ but (like some media outlets, it seems) on call to try and cancel those who effectively question climate dogma — specifically to date Steve Koonin, Richard Lindzen/PragerU, Bjorn Lomborg, Michael Shellenberger, and John Stossel.
While this cancelation campaign — like Greenpeace’s FOIAs — is of course virtuous, asking about public employees’ role in it is “intimidation” and “harassment”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As the week came to a close the reporter became increasingly frantic in her (her word) urgency. Once a few rumored House “climate disinformation” hearings were officially noticed, it became clear she was hurrying to crank out something usable in those fora, whose witness lists feature not only our Greenpeace heroes but other (publicly employed) academics using their public positions to advance an operation called the “Climate Science Social Network”, recently created by Tom Steyer interests to generate oppo research in the guise of academic chin-stroking at up to $60,000 per paper.
That is to say, there’s a coordinated media/Hill/activist PR campaign aggressively using government office and other resources to decry opposition to their agenda as a coordinated PR campaign and therefore improper, and that asking for records about how public institutions are used in intimidating, harassing campaigns to cancel opponents is the real intimidation and harassment. (Putting aside that this practice was rolled out by greens, uses a tool created by the political left (now we learn: only for the left), and is a condition of public employment these public servants agreed to.)
The Bloomberg reporter largely reflected the self-unaware, par-for-the-course. But then the Fates conspired to release more, deliciously timed emails Friday evening, and they confirmed: this ‘urgent’ Bloomberg item had also been pitched to others, since at least late January or February. Each time coincided with House hearings that were in need of such props.
Those Friday evening emails came from a climate industry boiler room, UCLA Law School, and included at the tail end “Ronan Farrow’s investigative researcher,” seeking comment for a story about the same two groups for the very same expressed reason (those poor Climate Feedback thugs were getting FOIA requests). This, too, came just before a House “disinformation” hearing that also needed something to breathlessly wave around, though that event was scrubbed after it was obvious the first hearing flopped.
This embarrassing reveal is delightfully affirming of what the day-to-day evidence suggested about our institutions, and the importance of the public’s right to know about it.
LINKS:
FACEBOOK “FACT-CHECKER’S” MEDIA PITCH TO CANCEL CRITICS
EMails: Facebook Sics its “Independent Fact Checker” on Disfavored Speech
If Steyer weren’t paying with house money (tax payer), then one might say have at it. As is, it’s a scam.
So Raul Grijalva is probably choosing who Zuckerberg uses for a “fact check”?
Gotta love Raul, he does the righteous indignation thing better than anyone else in the House, there are only a couple old-timers in the Senate, like Bernie, that do it better. I’m nominating him to the Academy for “best portrayal of someone acting like they are acting in the public interest.”
Is this a new incarnation of the ‘House Un-American activities’ witchunts?
It’s worse than that. This is one political party trying to destroy another political party, using the power of the federal government.
Is anyone surprised?
You will find the same thing going on with vaccine issues, BLM issues, Gender issues, Abortion issues – any topic the Left feels that should not be discussed…
The usual suspects are declaring that Republicans are both racist and sexist for daring to question whether the mayor of New Orleans is entitled to fly first class everywhere she goes.
Including France and Switzerland.
Republicans are both racist and sexist
The cards that always show how empty their hand is.
JournoList lives on…
It would be a refreshing change if we could end the “climate deniers”, “trust science” nonsense and leave this embarrassing politicization/bastardization of science behind us.
Question: The IPCC first coined AGW before finally landing on “Climate Change”. What was the name that they used and dropped between the two?
If that’s the case, why didn’t they call themselves the IPAGW?
Why does the NAACP still call itself the NAACP, even though “colored people” dropped out of favor decades ago?
Because the NAAPOC doesn’t work as well, and POC has other meanings.
And why don’t they live up to their name and work non behalf of all people of color instead of just blacks?
Because when they do, the person responsible gets side-lined and run out.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orange-county/os-ne-orange-county-naacp-president-resigns-racism-20220822-wuve63yukvbsrdx4uxdze2pebe-story.html
It was a number of years ago, but there was a time when the NAACP went to court to make sure that a political program designed to help “minorities” was re-interpreted to only help blacks.
Colored refers to a low-information attribute of people… person. Whereas “people of color” is an identity that refers to a color bloc under diversity [dogma] (i.e. color judgment, class-based bigotry).
Why not ask the IPCC?
I’m amazed that never occurred to you
You assume he’s interested in learning something.
You bent that nail trying to drive that point home. Try again to make sense.
Er, I think you’ll find that the UN, when establishing the IPCC, unilaterally defined “Climate Change” to mean “Manmade Climate Change”.
They then proceeded to round up every geological history denier to contribute to the proceedings.
Names change faster than the weather!
I like “climate weirding”…
Except the only thing “weird” about it, is how they go about measuring it.
As Shakespeare observed, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
What liberals fail to realize is that names take on the meaning of the characteristics of the thing they are representing, not the other way around. However, liberals keep changing the names in the hope of staying ahead of people learning what the word represents. Ultimately, it defeats the purpose of people sharing a common language that everyone understands.
We now have increasing Arctic Ice Extent and triple La nina. There planet appears to be cooling. It’ll be interesting to see how they fold cooling into their warming narrative with a new name. Along with being unable to define “woman” and “gender”, it’s getting hard to understand English these days.
Semantic games are the provenance of liberalism (i.e. a philosophy of divergence).
is the point.
Good point! If climate is down to daily events now, what is the time frame of weather? I just felt a puff breeze. Was that weather? If it’s windy tomorrow, is that climate.
Weather is forecast correlated with observation. Climate is observation correlated with models.
Semantic drift.
In order, there was
Global Cooling
Global Warming
Anthropogenic Global Warming
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming
Climate Change
Catastrophic Climate Change
Climate Weirding
Global Heating
I may have missed a few out, I may have some in the wrong order. Corrections welcomed.
If a company changed the brand name of its flagship product this much, and it still didn’t sell, what would that tell you about that product?
Thanks, I forgot some of them. They have been quite effective
in that anytime the words “climate” or “global” are used, everyone’s
been conditioned to immediately think “disaster”- Oh, noes! We’re
all gonna die!!!
IIRC, didn’t they also use “Climate Emergency”?
I don’t think all of those terms were used by all of the activist groups in order. The groups have become more organised and co-ordinated but weren’t always – I think that different terms were often used simultaneously.
“I think that different terms were often used simultaneously.”
You are correct. Some scientists in the early days referred to it as global warming and some as climate change. As time went along, global warming fell out of favor for the most part although it is still used in conjunction with warm weather events on Earth. Climate change is used when the alarmists try to connect cold weather to CO2.
I’ve seen government reports(different culprits) of national polls(from various countries) on how important various national problems are: wars, trade disputes, food supplies… to climate or climate change. Climate Change or some synonym was ALWAYS the last. Relatively, Climate Change has not been recognized by citizens as a significant problem.
The IPCC has rarely, if ever, commented on this and it and actual governments have simply ignored it. Presumably they are hoping for it to go away.
Sadly, destined to go the way of climategate.
Climategate revealed to those in the climate arena that it was
no longer science, but politics where “winning isn’t everything,
it’s the only thing”**. As such, everything produced by The
Team™ had to be verified. This corruption extended beyond the
scientists to university administrations as they helped cover
up the scandal. So nobody in the climate arena can claim to
just be naive as all Warmunista sites have tried to
debunk/support Climategate, McIntyre & Mann’s Hokeyschtick,
The Pause, Curry, Lindzen, Eschenbach, the Drs Pielke, WUWT,
…- the list is endless.
The same with this as there is now proof that it exists even
though it won’t be covered by the MSM. If they try to debunk
it, that may trigger the “Streisand Effect” where it will attract
even more attention. Datapoints Matter!
**h/t Vince Lombardi
Lessons in how to play political “Hide & Seek”?
The “Global Warmist” aka “Climate Change” people claim that CO2 is a major pollutant, when in fact it is the necessary gas to produce oxygen in our atmosphere! (Photosynthesis). “Photosynthesis is largely responsible for producing and maintaining the oxygen content of our Earth
s atmosphere, and supplies most of the energy necessary for life on Earth"(Wikipedia). The new Prime Minister of UK is now in a better position of rolling back this reliance upon a new foundation, called survival of her own countrys power needs! Yes! Fracking & more mining for coal & gas plus utilize nuclear power. In Australia, we are now moving down the road of opposing a Divine principle of life called Photosynthesis, which is a road to utter destruction. It is impossible to destroy Photosynthesis worldwide. It is impossible to achieve baseload power 24/7 via windmills, solar energy and batteries! The “Industrious Germans” and various parts of Europe, California (USA) and Australia are now in energy baseload decline and their politicians continue to pretend their solution is getting rid of CO2 with “Net Zero” emissions and replacing it with non- baseload solar energy, which is impossible!Please don’t forget Texas, New York and all of New England.
Yes, there are a lot of crash-test dummies out there now.
It looks like California has dodged the bullet for the moment as temperatures there cool drastically from what they were a week ago.
It looks like Germany may be the next in line to face the energy crisis, and by that I mean an energy crisis that causes people to freeze to death. It appears Germany is already in an energy crisis today, and it looks like the German economy is going to take a tremendous hit because of poor planning.
It didn’t have to happen. It is happening because German politicians are delusional about CO2.
“Media Role…”
It is propaganda, or more succinctly, a narrative.
Checking any output is narrative compliant is called (Orwellian alert) fact-check
This is, after all, politics.
The “Global Warmist” aka “Climate Change” people claim that CO2 is a major pollutant, when in fact it is the necessary gas to produce oxygen in our atmosphere! (Photosynthesis).”
Even worse is ignoring over 3,000 scientific studies showing how C3 photosynthesis plants grow better with 800ppm to 1200ppm CO2, which is why greenhouse owners CO2 enrich to 1000ppm to 1500ppm.
Any good news about CO2 is censored or omitted, including the fact that 415ppm today is low based on the history of our planet. That the C3 plants used for food evolved at about 1000ppm CO2, and would grow better at 1000ppm, with lower fresh water requirements, is a state secret.
Exactly.
That’s what “natural history deniers” do.
(I don’t know anyone who denies that climates change, but the mediascape is chock-a block with deniers of natural history)
“I don’t know anyone who denies that climates change, but the mediascape is chock-a block with deniers of natural history”
Any examples? If it’s chock a block then you should be able to rattle off a few that are not true.
How long ago was it when they were trying to deny the existence of both the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm period.
We also have those who try to claim that every natural disaster is “unprecedented” despite the fact that the historical record indicates that similar and bigger events have happened multiple times over the last few hundred to few thousand years.
I’ll start with a bloke called “Simon”, who asserts that current climates have never before in history undergone changes as are being POSTULATED to occur sometime in the future. Or later.
Here’s a pic of Simon and some other natural geological history deniers –
Here’s another climate alarmist front organization (funded by the usual suspects):
https://www.sej.org/about-sej/funding-sources#individuals2022
Mark Krebs,
Mein Gott— another perfect example of everything that’s wrong with the swamp. No wonder people despise D.C. Those people (“Society of Environmental Journalists”) will never do anything productive in their entire lives. They are worthless social parasites. In fact, people like them who congregate in D.C. to suck the government teat are directly responsible for the destruction of the environment (witness the degradation of the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay).
“swamp”- Sewer’s better, for scientific reasons.
A district of corruption.
Mark Steyn called the US District Court in DC a “cesspool”. Not even as good as a sewer.
There’s more. In the second half of my June 2014 GelbspanFiles blog post, I detailed how the SEJ was essentially created around their notion that there’s no need to give equal journalism reporting time to skeptic climate scientists because, well … ‘the science is settled.’ According to the non-scientists at SEJ, anyway. At their first annual conference in 1991, one of the prominent speakers was Dr Stephen Schneider, who had implied just a few few years earlier that the AGW issue would die at the hands of the public if they saw two warring sides of scientists— “you folks go back and study some more, and when you have more certainty come and tell us so we can decide how to act.” This is the same beloved Dr Schneider who declared in 1992, “It is journalistically irresponsible to present both sides as if it were a question of balance…It is irresponsible to give equal time to a few people standing out in left field.”
Yes and we should NEVER let it be forgotten that the same Dr. Schneider was on BOTH bandwagons – global cooling AND global warming.
So he essentially tried to sell us the notion that ANY change in the climate in ANY direction is caused by human fossil fuel use.
Ignoring, you know, that tiny range (/sarc) of natural climate variation that occurred before there were any humans ON this planet to blame for it.
When government encourages media censorship and misinformation, one shouldn’t be surprised that investigative reporting becomes the shovel used to bury a myriad of government agency shenanigans.
We’ve fallen a very long way down the ‘ideal’ ladder that brought us a free press. Liberal fascism isn’t a right-wing conspiracy.
I’ve seen a few compilations drawn from the, mainly newspapers, from say1790 to 1880. There were newpapers every where, backing 5-10-15 or more different politicians, political parties, of just plaing local tantrums. Each town was more or less rated on how many newspapers it had and how well they could drive viewpoints.
I think one can draw a distinction between being say a newspaper who’s editor leans right or left, and newspapers that lean left and act editorially as propaganda outlets. Newspapers have always been political and everyone new going in which was which, but this editorial propaganda machine for left leaning governments is something very much an Obama era, politicization of media thing.
Canadian PM Trudeau bought off the 15 largest newspapers and magazines for some 600 Million $CDN and other subsidies. The UK and EU member States have subsidized media. The rationale being rather spurious, …”were afraid that locking news behind a paywall would deprive society of a public good that is especially important at times when untrustworthy, misleading and harmful contents are surging.”… because the media is most trustworthy and not, not inclined to propagandize. 😏
I can sum up this article with this statement: “HOW DARE YOU DO THE EXACT SAME THINGS THAT WE DO!!!!!!!!! Who do you think you are, doing the things we have done many times?”
Followed by…
Do you know who I am?
The left measures right and wrong, not based on anything as trivial as morality, but instead by whatever benefits them.
If it makes achieving their goals easier, it is good. If it makes achieving their goals harder, it is evil. Even if it is the same thing.
Yes indeed, the enviro-left’s whimpering about ‘FOIA intimidation’ / ‘stifle the voices of climate scientists’ is pure psychological projection of what the enviro-left actually use as an intimidation tactic against their critics. There’s nothing new about their complaint here, either. Back in 2005, the NYT did a story on the Bush Administration’s alleged intimidation of environmentalist groups, prompting a response from Greenpeace USA’s then-executive director that “If the F.B.I. has taken the time to gather 2,400 pages of information on an organization that has a perfect record of peaceful activity for 34 years, it suggests they’re just attempting to stifle the voices of their critics.” The irony of the statement is massive, just ask prominent AGW skeptics about having to deal with FOIA requests initiated by Greenpeace. On top of that, it was Greenpeace under that particular exec director that was amassing uncounted numbers of documents on skeptic climate scientists, e.g. the late Dr S Fred Singer. Funny additional ironic thing about ol’ Greenpeace there – they demanded transparency from skeptic climate scientists, but they just recently deep-sixed their own collective “Greenpeace Investigations” documents pile scans out of the public eye.
Back when I was in school, if you didn’t show your work, you got no credit for the assignment.
FOIA is a legal requirement to show your work.
No wonder the left only likes FOIA when they are using it on others.
Most people aren’t technically interested in researching how climate works, so will accept what the MSM tells them. A Mass Formation psychosis that creates a whole industry in mass delusion is happening in front of our eyes. I hear many such people that say there must be something wrong with the climate and when repeated ad nauseam, the masses of people will start to believe/repeat it.
We just have to keep repeating facts about real long term cimate data, and not only how the data has been manipulated, but that much of the surface data temperature record has also been corrupted with faulty sited weather stations. It all boils down to warming that causes climate change, which is caused by CO2/methane. Nothing about natural variation. And then based upon faulty and questionable data.
There is a whole army of people being paid to organize the narrative in one form or another to bolster the Climate Emergency, with everything else environmental all revolving now around ’emissions’ and CO2. This will all collapse when people notice that there really isn’t any emergency (weather has always been frightful) or can’t heat and cool their homes economically, or can’t afford to eat and heat their homes, and send their kids to school.
The more they push this, it appears this house of cards will collapse when the climate emergency doesn’t emerge. So far, it is always some prediction 50+ years down the road, although they try and blame every weather event on this climate emergency now. When it comes to peoples well being and their wallet, they will begin to pay attention to what is going on. We are nearing that point now with all the insanity going on with this narrative being put into action. This is when the rubber will meet the road. Maybe this winter in Europe.
The problem is that your “army of people” have the MSM in thier pocket. Until we get a proper independant MSM, the general public won’t be told the other side of the story.
One ray of hope is the Leftwing Media has a very low approval rating, down around 10 percent.
So the Leftwing Media isn’t fooling everyone.
“their”
Fat finger syndrome.
Apologies.
Funny, Trump and his supporters arrested. Anyone questioning anything ‘banned ‘ gets ‘arrested’.
They are the ‘Fascists’. If you voted MAGA, or even questioned the viability of ‘Wind Farms’ supplying energy to California then you are an “enemy of The State” and therefore a “target”.
Biden’s Police State in action.
If we’re taking flack, I know we’re s over the target! Bombs away! This is close to the heart of a very large conspiracy of Greens and Socialists..
Basically, those inside the bureaucracy are projecting what’s inside their heads onto folks outside of the bureaucracy.
And none of it is pretty is it.
That is The Problem, that is The Emergency.
Climate is just symptomatic. It was tried previously with Ozone and Acid Rain – the science in both of those just as much utter crap & junk-worthy as it is inside climate.
Everything and Everybody is now Wrong
And if you’re not Wrong, The Consensus will project itself onto you and make it so.
Just as how Witches were created in olden times and precisely what happened to Donald Trump
You **really** do have to love how he was railroaded into taking a mental health test then the Completely Vacant Brandon is voted into office as some sort of Superhero Goldenboy.
words fail
Witches (girls), warlocks (boys), and babies (girls and boys), too, in the modern model.
Podesta. Thats why he has been bought onboard.
Podesta has a 370 billion dollar slush fund to manage.
Podesta is Hillary Clinton’s right hand man and is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg.
If you want to find one person who is behind all the corruption of the U.S. Constitution, with the unlawful pursuit of Donald Trump using the power of the federal government, that person would be Podesta. Hillary and Podesta perpertrated the Trump/Russia hoax and everythig that followed, assisted ably by Obama and Biden and the crooks in their administrations.
Now the Washington Cesspool moves Podesta back into a place of huge influence. It’s a revolving door of corruption and law breaking.
Noting mention of Greenpeace, they are currently running a climate misinformation campaign on TV in Australia begging for money. There isn’t a single claim in their “Climate Emergency” ads that has credible support.