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Joseph J. Zuckerman MD's avatar

As always, I like to look at the underlying motivations for these observations. If climate change is an existential threat that’s already impacting just about every aspect of life, then that provides the rationale for taking drastic action. That action generally seems to involve more power accruing to government (at many levels) in order to control how people live (by raising the cost of energy, for example).

Power and Control. These are age old themes. Climate change is a powerful pretext for advancing this agenda. Of course the ones promoting it believe they will be part of the group that has the power and control.

Note that I’m not denying that climate change is occurring, nor that it shouldn’t be mitigated when possible. However, we keep seeing this tendency to exaggerate many aspects of it.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

1. This says it all, tells me we are not dealing with science (shocker right?). "multiple journalists have told me in conversations that there is no way they can ever be seen to engage with me, as it is a professional hazard." Burn it all to the ground.

2. The sub-header, "Coverage of climate has become more about narrative promotion than news", change "promotion" to "control", narrative control is what we have been discussing.

And its everywhere.

See coveringclimatenow.org, orwellian star chamber at Columbia but as we are finding out that only scratches the surface.

Regarding the scare stories, no different than the book Koonin wrote, then he suffered personal attacks (sorry, "fact checks") by attack dogs like Hausfather. That Koonin then debunked.

As always, i hope you survive the weekend.

We like you.

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