Deconstructing the Climate Coverage Decline
At the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, Michael Svoboda has an excellent deep dive analysis on climate change media coverage. Specifically, he examines the findings behind recent reports that show a decline in climate-related stories the past two years. The decline is real, but also more nuanced than many probably realize.
Keith there is something badly wrong with this picture:
The whole planet is in deep peril. The only people who know this are doing nothing about it but instead they fill their time writing long-winded empty essays about how everyone else is just bored by the whole scare.
Maybe, just maybe, this is good news. The bad things that were going to happen just refuse to happen. And the newspapers stop writing about how the bad things that never happen are gonna happen soon. What’s not to like?
@Jack Hughes: “Deep peril. The only people who know this are doing nothing about it but instead they fill their time writing long-winded empty essays…. The bad things that were going to happen just refuse to happen. And the newspapers stop writing about how the bad things that never happen are gonna happen soon.”
This could describe the debate about the federal deficit just as well as the debate over climate change.
Deficit alarmists keep warning about catastrophic national debt (CND), but all their predictions are based on models of the economy that are less accurate than climate models, and despite their shrill warnings, Social Security hasn’t gone bankrupt, Medicare is still paying doctors, and inflation is near zero. No wonder the public and Congress reject the CND alarmist bandwagon, leaving the CND alarmists nothing better to do than write long-winded essays and accuse deficit skeptics of “deficit denial“
Jack,
If it is fair to assue you are one of the select few who knows the planet is in peril, can we also conclude that your post represents an example of a long-winded empty essay?
Dude, the planet is not in peril. Your belief system, based on CO2 apocalypse is in peril. Learn to tell the difference.
Jack Hughes,
I apparently missed a great example of irony on your part.
Please excuse my faux pas and enjoy a good laugh at my expense.
hunter
Dude, the planet is not in peril.
And GHGs are in fact transparent to IR, the laws of physics are wrong and your Nobel is in the post.
BBD,
So let me try and follow your enlightened rationale:
Either the planet is in peril or the laws of physics are not as most of us understand?
You do realize that Jack was being sarcastic, by the way?
hunter
As was I.
BBD,
I am pleased to hear that you had your humorectomy reversed.
so is the planet in peril?
hunter
Planets aren’t imperilled by climate change. Species can be, and civilisations can be. Were you not detached from reality and in denial of the mainstream scientific position, you would understand this.