Essentially the climate change issue is a charismatic smooth-talking sales campaign selling the world the notion of catastrophic man-caused global warming via an endless string of deceptive narratives. Even the name of the issue, "climate change," is deceptive. algore's movie An Inconvenient Truth, taught around the world from the grade school level through college, used the "global warming" phrase a minimum of 25 times while never mentioning climate change once. Why change the name? When "man-caused global warming'' paused instead of continually rising as more atmospheric CO2 irrefutably rises, the public starts asking questions. No problem(1). They switched(2) to "Climate Change" and blamed it for the previous year's 7 million acres of U.S. wildfires, while hoping nobody recalls the nearly 22 million acres burned in 1937.
When objective, unbiased observers examine the issue, they find no end to disingenuous imagery and misleading narratives. Case in point: media don't use clear, midday photos of coal-fired power plants, they instead show views taken at sunset or sunrise where the always-backlit harmless steam emissions resemble sinister pollution clouds. News reports imply the colorless carbon dioxide in the steam is a pollutant, despite the fact that commercial greenhouse growers pump CO2 into their buildings to help their plants and flowers grow bigger and faster. Beyond that, news outlets simplify the name of that odorless, colorless trace gas as "carbon pollution," evoking mental images of smokey black soot.
If the public is not being presented with accurate depictions of just those few items, how many others are misrepresented? Liberal news outlets such as the PBS NewsHour have never once had a skeptic scientist on the program over the last 25 years to dispute what was said during 97 appearances of scientists associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, NASA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The public is largely unaware of how climate experts question the notion of global warming: temperature data-gathering methodology/ocean acidity/polar bear populations/glacial retreat/the "scientific consensus"/sea levels/weather intensity, on and on. Accusations of corruption by oil companies have played a major part in keeping the issue alive for 30 years now. Its specific claim is that “leaked industry memos” proves the fossil-fuel industry paid skeptic scientists to "reposition global warming as theory rather than fact." Those “leaked memos” were first floated as evidence by environmentalists in June 1991, and the "reposition" strategy goal was most famously spelled out on the full screen in algore's movie, in a deceptively inaccurate comparison to a leaked tobacco industry document. This same supposedly sinister set of leaked memos is the cornerstone evidence for disinformation campaign accusations in most of the "Exxon Knew"-style global warming damages lawsuits (e.g. City of Hoboken, NJ v Exxon), and this same memo set was once again cited in a November 2021 UK Guardian article about oil industry disinformation campaigns, where the article went so far as to additionally post scratchy copies of newspaper ads that supposedly accompanied the "disinformation campaign.”
But it turns out that those ads were never used in the genuine campaign, which was a short-lived public relations effort to tell the public the FACTS what algore and the IPCC wasn't telling them. Worse, the leaked memo set, with the "reposition global warming" strategy targeting a gullible audience of "older, less educated males" and "young, low income women," was only a foolish idea that was rejected by the industry group it was sent to. The whole leaked memo allegation is worthless as evidence, but it is still the main evidence the global-warming alarmists have ever had to convince the public to ignore skeptic scientists and other experts.
As complex as the science is after 30 years, the elemental fatal fault in the global warming issue is how the whole issue still boils down to just a one bogus sentence talking point, echoed over and over by the eco-extremists: "Exxon and the rest of the fossil fuel industry knew the science was settled, but paid shill 'experts' to reposition global warming from fact back to uncertain theory, and that's why everyone can ignore those skeptics and move forward to stop the climate crisis.
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