If they didn’t publish “information” like a cult would and actually practiced what they preached would they be worried about losing?
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
When nearly 200 nations signed the 2015 Paris agreement, acknowledging the threat of rising global temperatures and vowing action, many hoped that the era of climate denial was finally over.
Ten years later it has roared back, arguably stronger than ever.
As delegates wrapped the annual United Nations climate talks last Saturday, those who have campaigned to reduce the use of fossil fuels expressed growing alarm that forces arrayed against them are gaining ground in the information war.
The oil, gas and coal industries continue to downplay the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is dangerously heating the planet. It’s a strategy that has been echoed by oil-rich countries such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and — under the Trump administration — the United States.
Can someone remind me how many tens of thousands took fossil fueled trips to Brazil for the climate (scam) conference, which included cutting down a piece of the Amazon to build a road for fossil fueled vehicles, as well as housing thousands of people on diesel powered ships?
The final statement of the U.N. talks, which were held in Belém, Brazil, did not even use the words “fossil fuels.”
“We thought that good ideas would get people to act,” J. Timmons Roberts, a researcher at Brown University and executive director of its Climate Social Science Network, lamented in a briefing on the eve of the talks.
Why would anyone else act when the people attending climate conferences won’t in their own lives?
Even so, Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, opened the talks by denouncing obstructionists who “reject scientific evidence and attack institutions.”
“They manipulate algorithms, sow hatred and spread fear,” he said, describing a surge in disinformation and propaganda aimed at blocking action to slow climate change.
Sounds like some nice doomsday cult propaganda, considering how much they have manipulated data, used BS climate models, and consistently talk doom and gloom. And fear. Not sure how Skeptics are sowing fear, unless it’s pointing out that the cult wants everyone’s money and freedom
“There’s a lot of reality that has hit,” said Steven J. Milloy, the founder of JunkScience.com, a website that has disputed the scientific consensus on climate change. “People are realizing now that we need fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are here to stay.”
They sure need them to attend climate conferences, eh?
Polls consistently show that a majority of adults globally and in the United States consider climate change to be a serious threat.
And, yet, it always comes down to it being theoretical, since the vast majority of those answer that we’re doomed refuse to change their own lives, give up fossil fuels, etc and so on.
Mr. Whitehouse said profits will always be the bottom line for the fossil fuel industry and others opposed to meaningful efforts to fight climate change.
“At one level we’ve been losing the climate disinformation war all along,” Mr. Whitehouse said. “We are where we are because we were completely ineffectual in fending off a decades-long disinformation bombardment.”
Didn’t he fly to Brazil? And pretty much every COP conference?
