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So says George Monbiot, a climate change reporter for the Guardian.
He reviews a laundry list of cherry picked factoids to support his case that the earth is getting hotter than ever. And then he sums up:
No, nobody cares about this stuff any more. Evil corporations really don't have anything to do with it. Climate advocates have done this to themselves. They have cried wolf until nobody is listening anymore. No “Day After Tomorrow” superstorms, no surge in bad weather, no collapsing nations or mass migrations to polar regions. Nothing bad is happening. News organizations are less and less likely to report this alarmist claptrap because they have always ended up looking like fools when they do.
Meanwhile, global temperatures are falling subsequent to the exhaustion of El Nino in the Pacific.
He reviews a laundry list of cherry picked factoids to support his case that the earth is getting hotter than ever. And then he sums up:
Throughout the media, these tragedies are reported as impacts of El Niño: a natural weather oscillation caused by blocks of warm water forming in the Pacific. But the figures show that it accounts for only one-fifth of the global temperature rise. The El Niño phase has now passed, but still the records fall.
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To pretend that newspapers and television channels are neutral arbiters of such matters is to ignore their place at the corrupt heart of the establishment. At the US conventions, to give one small example, the Washington Post, the Atlantic and Politico were paid by the American Petroleum Institute to host a series of discussions, at which climate science deniers were represented. The pen might be mightier than the sword, but the purse is mightier than the pen.
Why should we trust multinational corporations to tell us the truth about multinational corporations? And if they cannot properly inform us about the power in which they are embedded, how can they properly inform us about anything?
If humanity fails to prevent climate breakdown, the industry that bears the greatest responsibility is not transport, farming, gas, oil or even coal. All of them can behave as they do, shunting us towards systemic collapse, only with a social licence to operate. The problem begins with the industry that, wittingly or otherwise, grants them this licence: the one for which I work.
No, nobody cares about this stuff any more. Evil corporations really don't have anything to do with it. Climate advocates have done this to themselves. They have cried wolf until nobody is listening anymore. No “Day After Tomorrow” superstorms, no surge in bad weather, no collapsing nations or mass migrations to polar regions. Nothing bad is happening. News organizations are less and less likely to report this alarmist claptrap because they have always ended up looking like fools when they do.
Meanwhile, global temperatures are falling subsequent to the exhaustion of El Nino in the Pacific.