The move to censor certain ideas from the internet and mainstream media is picking up speed as left-wing media outlets and activists are pushing to suppress those who happen to disagree with the official “climate change” narrative. The list of those who are being harassed for their so-called “unscientific views” include respectable scientists who are asking legitimate questions about current and future climate predictions.
The move to silence so-called “climate change deniers” isn’t necessarily new. Times editor Paul Thornton reported in 2013 that he would not allow letters from people who denied climate change to appear in the letters section of the newspaper. In 2014, BBC trained hundreds of reporters not to give too much attention to what it called “marginal opinions” on global warming.
Furthermore, Wikileaks revealed just last year that liberals went after University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. for noting that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found no evidence that global warming was responsible for a rise in extreme weather. However, the attempt to censor climate change skeptics has reached new lows as scientists are not only refusing to talk to people who don’t hold the same climate change views as they do. but even castigating the media for allowing anyone who is a climate change skeptic to have any time on air to discuss their viewpoints.
Naturally, climate change embracers don’t see their efforts to silence opponents as a call to censorship. Instead, they state that newspapers, TV shows and other news outlets don’t have to give climate change skeptics time on the air because the skeptics are simply “not credible.” However, these same activists fail to note the fact that many climate change assertions made both recently and over the years have been proven wrong.
For instance, California recently released a report stating that thousands of people would die every year from climate change-induced “overheating” by the year 2050. However, the report has already been heavily criticized by Manhattan Institute senior fellow Oren Cass, who notes that California failed to take into account the fact that people would automatically change their behavior should temperatures rise drastically in the coming years.
Additionally, Cliff Mass, a climate scientist at the University of Washington, has noted that the popular assertion that global warming is responsible for intense wildfires in the Northwestern United States is flat-out incorrect. He points out the fires are caused by overgrowth that needs to be thinned out. Statistics dating back decades back up Mr. Mass’ claims; unfortunately, if climate change “experts” had their way, news outlets would ignore them completely.
There is a prevalent yet dangerous idea that the public must be protected from opinions that differ from those held by the scientific class. It is really an insult to humanity that there are some who believe that people cannot handle hearing both sides of a debate, do their own research and come to a logical conclusion.
In an effort to protect the masses from “unscientific opinions”, some scientists want to suppress any debate of the “climate change” agenda, even though laws passed in the name of this agenda would affect millions of people of all ages and walks of life. Thankfully, free speech laws and the internet make it possible for those who question climate change to freely state their opinions — and the facts backing them up.
Hopefully the mainstream news media, like many in its audience, will realize that a free press means reporting on any newsworthy story or person, even if the story or person in question happens to hold politically incorrect or so-called “unscientific” views.
~ Conservative Zone
Father issues: sooo many of these unhinged libs, especially males, have deep rooted father issues which they bitterly project toward confident, successful men who they perceive don’t share their negative world view.
The only attack on the free press comes from Trump who wants to control the flow of information. Over 4,000 lies so far.
I presume that number 4,000 is being promulgated by all the leftist groups, media, Hollywood, academia, leftist talk show people etc. Would be interesting to see just 10 actual lies (not just Trumps known exaggerations.
would you list the 4000 lies that you claim President Trump has told. I would love to see them
yes indeed – over 4,000 LIES from the “free press” just since Trump came to office
this proves the MSM is the enemy of “we the people”
Wrong! Talk about mis-informed
“There is a prevalent yet dangerous idea that the public must be protected from opinions that differ from those held by the scientific class. ”
That sentence implies that the ‘scientific class’, implying all scientists, agree with climate change and only those outside the ‘scientific class’ hold differing opinions when that is just not true. In point of fact, I would venture to say that more scientists are skeptics than are believers in climate change. Tens of thousands of scientists world wide have stepped up to dispute the entire theory (and that’s what it is, not ‘settled science’ as the climate changers would have everyone believe) and have solid evidence with which to do so. They just don’t make it into the mainstream media which is solidly owned by the climate changers who also happen to be the globalists and, in this country the Demonrat Party and many of the establishment Republicans. That’s because climate change fits squarely in with their globalist agenda as a reason to advance globalism. In the end it comes back to being a political issue and thus an issue of some people lusting after power over the rest of us.
D. Richard Tonge Name One Lie!!! You Can’t because President Trump Has Not Told One!!
On the other hand, you and the Liberal Retards and the Fake News Media Lie 24 hours A day. Oh and Mr. slime ball fraud Obama told lies for 8 years!!
not to worry, D Richard Tonge was just lying
Note to D. Richard Tonge – Your comment on President Trump (“Over 4,000 lies so far”) is WAY off base. He would not be attacking the press if they would print the truth and quit attacking him. You need to come out of your cave and see what’s really happening.
Amen Robert, someone has to tell the truth, when the media spins there own yarns
To the one holding the sign, but you people are ignoring facts. Facts say that the earth has been changing climatically since it was born, WAY before man arrived. There happens to be other scientists who do NOT agree with your Theory.
And to Tongue, would you list the 4000 lies that you claim President Trump has told. I would love to see them
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
->H.L. Mencken<-
The Glaciers are melting faster , The Ice Cap is disappearing, Sea Levels are rising , and North America, Europe and Africa are undergoing extreme heat events. The Earth is warming up, regardless of what some Screwball Blowhard masquerading as the POTUS says. You don’t want to believe the signs all around you ? Fine . Turn your Air Conditioner off and stop drinking potable water (which is also disappearing) , Then repeat the Trump Mantra :” I’m right in everythng. Anyone who says different is Fake news.”. Idiots. .
AND all of your hypotheses have been proven false but you go ahead and live in la la land. The caps are growing. The sun was at a peak and has been moving back into a dark period as they call it and the earth has been cooling for the last 9 years. The whole game was for political purposes only and it failed because they failed to realize the education system yet has us that stupid.
I guess that it was man whom caused the ICE AGE! Climate change, which is real has nothing to do with man, but a normal cycle of the Earth and there is not a damn thing you can do to prevent it. You are creating your own hate and discontent for NOTHING!!!!!!!!
I make it a habit to break things down to their simplest denominator. The one common thing these people on the left who have power of any kind is the gain of money and control. Benjamin Franklin once said at the outset of America’s coming is;
Any country big enough to give you everything is big enough to take it all away.
Who’s going to ultimately pay for climate control? Who must be regulated because government has our best interests and corporation don’t. This is the unvarnished truth liberals won’t ever admit to. Any means or method to get votes now and in the future can be obtained through any netharious means. Even breaking laws. People need to keep this in mind when voting and stop behaving like their vote means nothing. We’re at a crossroads now and this November will determine where we Americans will be and become in the next several years.
The Earth has cycles, some are short and some are long. That is one fact all Scientist agree on.
I have done a lot of reading on Earths cycles and it is very interesting to say the least.
Well, I’m one and sitting right here. Come make me. I believe real scientists and not the political hacks who make false claims to suit a political agenda. The whole game was/is for control of everything and they failed. First started with claims of global warming which was proven false since the earth has been cooling for years, then switched to climate change which happens daily and their premises have been proven false also by a multitude because they ignore many facts that disprove their heresy like the earth is cooling, the sun is now moving into a dark period, one volcano eruption puts more noxious gases into the atmosphere than the human race can in years, and the dreaded CO2 they want to eliminate is absolutely needed for plant life….and on and on.