Originally posted on ClimateREALISM
The Columbia Journalism School of New York City has announced a media seminar “Climate Changes Everything – Creating a Blueprint for Media Transformation” to be held September 21 and 22, 2023. The tagline for it reads: “Join leading journalists from around the world for an unprecedented conversation about how to cover a world on fire.”
They start out with a lie, the world isn’t “on fire” at all. To say this sort of media collusion to “get their stories straight” on climate is wrong, would be an understatement. This seminar violates virtually every principle as defined by the American Press Institute in their “The elements of journalism” definitions, especially the tenet “Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover.” With this sort of collusion, independence on the topic of climate change essentially disappears.
The press release for it, from their webpage, is below:
Reporters, editors, and news executives from Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, CBS News, Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism, France Télévisions, the Guardian, South Florida’s NBC 6, NowThis, Telemundo, TIME, The Times of India, and The Weather Channel — among many other outlets, large and small — will join with hundreds of colleagues to chart a course for tackling the climate story in ways that drive attention and impact while highlighting solutions and justice.
- Hear from newsrooms innovating to meet the moment: How can news outlets everywhere treat climate change as a story for every beat, not just silo it on the weather desk?
- Discuss whether news outlets should still take fossil fuel advertising, and how journalists can grapple with climate disinformation.
- Look ahead to 2024 elections that will have profound implications for global climate action. How can journalists make those implications clear to voters, refute misinformation, and hold candidates accountable?
- Learn from journalists covering and living in frontline communities how to highlight climate justice in our reporting.
- Recognize that telling the entire climate story means not just including solutions — but interrogating those solutions, so the public and policymakers know which ones actually work.
- Plus, get a front row seat to interviews with special guests and global climate luminaries.
CLIMATE CHANGES EVERYTHING will be a participatory event, with networking breaks, a town hall, and working sessions on key conference themes.
We’re at a moment of historic opportunity for journalism. Climate coverage around the world is better than ever, but so much more is needed: more energy, more creativity, more commitment. Let’s forge a path forward, together.
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Despite decades of coordinated effort by the most-powerful media outlets in Western society, voters still put “climate change” dead last of their priority list in polls. That is something significant that the media is ignoring with this new push. Or, perhaps it worries them.
It could be the progressive elites that control global information are so worried that voters “simply don’t care” enough about climate that they feel the need to redouble their coordinated efforts to hyperbolize the climate crisis. This arguably good news, suggesting that efforts like those undertaken daily at Climate Realism, WattsUpWithThat, and many other climate realist efforts for the past three decades have not been in vain. This principled and often lonely work of climate realists to speak truth to power has been effective, at least when you compare it to the sort of budgets these media giants have.
The low-funded David has struck the massively funded Goliath … if not with a kill shot, at least one that wounded him and got him worried that he might lose. The bravery of climate skeptics worldwide has proven more powerful than media because we have the truth on our side. Why? Because of what Goliath didn’t expect from us: climate skeptics have the courage to say the truth, and never stop no matter the cost.
While the Media writes about the supposed “consensus” and “settled science,” climate realists point out that consensus is a political, not scientific term and that science is never “settled.” On the question of catastrophic climate change, following the scientific method, testing theories against data, indicates that no such crisis is in the offing. Most types of extreme weather events are not getting worse.
The only thing keeping the “climate crisis” narrative afloat this long is the influence of wealthy elites in Western nations and the power-hungry politicians beholden them who keep pouring taxpayers money into the climate scheme for the purposes of gaining power by trying to control energy. Eventually, the climate panic will end. The Soviet Union was considered even more permanent than the United States and the Western capitalist model, for at least two generations. Yet it fell, like the climate crisis will, because the “science” of communism and socialism was as fraudulent as the “science” that says humans are causing a climate catastrophe.
Jim Lakely, Vice President for Communications at The Heartland Institute also contributed to this story.
Anthony Watts is a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute. Watts has been in the weather business both in front of, and behind the camera as an on-air television meteorologist since 1978, and currently does daily radio forecasts. He has created weather graphics presentation systems for television, specialized weather instrumentation, as well as co-authored peer-reviewed papers on climate issues. He operates the most viewed website in the world on climate, the award-winning website wattsupwiththat.com.
Well, global cooling is on the way. Cool sunspots are associated with even hotter areas called Faculae which radiate heat. According to NOAA they predict the sunspot number, which has been around 100, will start dropping to single digits by 2035 and to zero and stay there at least until 2040 when their predictions end. It is going to get cold. The main flow of heat is the Sun warms the oceans and the oceans warm the atmosphere. With the Sun cooling the Earth’s atmosphere will cool as well.
Link to NOAA Sunspot prediction: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/predicted-sunspot-number-and-radio-flux
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
Actual is well above predicted, so I assume great minds are trying to determine where the predictive equations went haywire (aka failed, off-the-rails, broken).
Duct tape is now used for fixing things that once were fixed with hay wire.
Raise your hand if you have actually used hay wire! 🙂
We could enter the next glacierization period and tomorrow and this ‘CRAZY’ will continue. It’s not about the climate. It’s a power grab….. a slow incremental covert power grab by invisible and untouchable saviors who want to depopulate the world while centralizing all it’s economic activity. They are a group of people who believe that through operant conditioning via devices and apps and mind control empowered by endless algorithmic data feed back loops in social media, that they can control the masses. Already, many of our young people would be satisfied having nothing more than shelter, food and wifi. In addition, they are convinced getting married and having children is either bad or too hard. This is clear evidence that living life in psychologically facilitated dystopic is well underway. Everything is too hard if you spend 7-10 hours a day scrolling the internet. The dialectical progression towards a depopulated and rewilded utopia, will be dystopic with will be war after war (both foreign and civil). The economic development of Africa, Russia, Central Asia and South America is being halted. It will come to a full stop if more barriers are put around hydrocarbon fuels.. This means massive immigration and huge disparities in economic well being while the western societies become poorer and more deeply divided.. An argument could be made that the Russian War in Ukraine is a harbinger of the wars to come as the CRAZY progresses.
“The economic development of Africa, Russia, Central Asia and South America is being halted.”
Both by internal corruption and external dis-allowance of fossil fuel infrastructure.
Speaking of blatant grabs, a new 2023 Chinese territory map has sparked concern for including disputed territories in India, Russia and the entire South China Sea (including Taiwan) as Chinese. This includes Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (now Heixiazi) and Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state at the eastern end of the disputed area between India and China and Aksai Chin at the western end. Russia hasn’t commented yet but India is very annoyed as are Malaysia and the Phillipines.
The conference is about whipping up support and adherence to WEF climate agenda and economic revolution that is already conveyed in a unified manner in all media….news, social media, web search’s, Wiki, Film, TV shows, etc. Huge dollars are on the line because they know they have the power and they will be flexing their muscles all the way next inauguration. They have to because of few courageous folk speaking out against them….RFK and Ramaswamy, (some GOP candidates are unwilling for afraid to hit the nail on the head)
I think the WEF program has facilitated the creation of three worlds:, Russia/china and it’s associates, the developed West and the underdeveloped regions of the world.. I have no honor or love for Russia or China but I wonder if the West’s WEF lockstep hi-tech fear mongering propaganda empowered economic revolution is fomenting this divide. China and Russia are both at risk of population collapse in the next couple of decades, they must allow for high levels of immigration or import labor soon…. or use military intimidation to broaden their borders. Putin see’s WEF’s program as a threat to global stability due to it’s focus on depopulation, equity and defocus on economic development of undeveloped economies in the world….including Russia itself,(making WEF’s focus on equity highly hypocritical).
Russia is entirely to blame for it’s own lack of economic development but now has no hope because population collapse is 1-3 decades away. This makes for despotic political desperation. China and Russia see themselves as the only opportunity to economically develop Russia, much of Africa central Asia, and the pacific nations. China would love to turn the Philippines into a client state as well as Malaysia and Indonesia. all of SE Asia Yet if we get too back and white about the CRAZY in the world, we will pinpoint foreign enemies and miss the biggest enemy that has already taken hold in the West.
All this climate propaganda is about the consolidation of economic and political power. The west embraces it, the Russia/China East do not….they call it a rising a tech/media hegemony on a global scale. This hegemony has slapped Russia and China in the face and is flying under our noses.
The co-occurrence of a major full court propaganda push for WEF’s climate agenda and economic revolution with the pandemic is no mere coincidence. The complex smoke and mirrors rumblings of covert revolution and covert war is making us all shudder. It remains to be seen if there remains a political solution in America. America no longer has political stability and the representative power of it’s citizens is draining quickly.
It remains to be seen if a shift to a GOP administration will have enough power to stem the tide. The only two candidates who have been up front and militant against the WEF program have been Ramaswamy and RFK. Even if CNN is painting RFK as a wing nut. RFK does not need to be elected to turn back the clock on the WEF and undermine it’s narrative. Until now the WEF program has been flowing unabated in unified harmony in all directions in the West. Hopefully it has peaked. Until then the only solution is legal….bust them up!
There is still a lot of stored solar energy stored in the great huge heat sink of the oceans.
Plus the remaining underground fossil fuels [ancient “stored sunlight”].
And it is much, much easier to turn into useful energy than the deep ocean.
scv said, “With the Sun cooling the Earth’s atmosphere will cool as well.”
What I meant was there is a lot of solar energy stored in the ocean, so cooling will take some time.
The Columbia propaganda school would stop pretending they do journalism if they were honest. Legacy media stopped having any integrity long ago. Psyops are standard operating procedures now.
Preposterous nonsense is presented as unquestionable fact so people without critical thinking skills have no hope of not being brainwashed. They have heard the lies so many times it isn’t even conceivable to them that they could be wrong.
The false premises/narratives underlying the house of cards supporting mass delusions needs to be exposed at every turn.
Bless you Anthony for providing a voice of reason in the wilderness!
The over use of the word unprecedented is unprecedented.
If we said they were doing this, they would say we are spreading Conspiracy Theories.
These are polls that ask voters to rank a list of items in terms of importance.
When voters are asked to come up with their own list of what is important, “climate change” never even shows up.
Looks like a nice jolly for the Guardian hacks who attend. They will, of course, be crossing the Atlantic in a wooden sailing boat to demonstrate their commitment to zero-emissions travel.
Something I had never thought of is apparent from this expose of the media collusion as follows:
You know that one of the favorite denial tactics of the alarmist adherents is to accuse a skeptic of being funded by big oil, or the like. So they can thereby assuage their cognitive dissonance when confronted with truths or facts that destroy their narrative…
Well how about the funding of almost all (perhaps 97%) of the world’s media to promote the false narrative of climate catastrophe. What is the budget of The Weather Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and even Fox has become tainted by the woke and chicken little nonsense. Or the NYT and Guardian and the BBC etc etc etc.
Add up all of their budgets and it’s a whopping big number. And how about the funding of anyone in academia – you can’t get funding unless you kowtow to the sky is falling myths. How much do governments fund climate change studies?
Someone with more intestinal fortitude than I should compile a list of all these budgets and funding amounts for the Climate Cult side to counter their asinine argument that a skeptic with critical data refuting their nonsense is accused of being funded by “carbon polluters”.
“Carbon Pollution” which is in fact an oxymoron as without carbon and specifically carbon dioxide there would be no life on this 3rd rock from the sun. (ergo carbon or carbon dioxide cannot be a pollutant nor dangerous, otherwise you argue life is bad and must be limited or destroyed, which is in fact outright evil and the push for eliminating carbon and CO2 is a psychopathic impulse disguised as some savior cultism to induce mass delusion)
They are doubling down on the deceit – we that know, know, it’s the not sures they’re targeting
So it IS a conspiracy?