First of all, what balanced coverage? Second, where is this balanced coverage they’re talking about? Third of all, science doesn’t care about balance, it cares about facts. And what we’re seeing is not science
False balance in news coverage of climate change makes it harder to address the crisis
What does media coverage of climate change have in common with coverage of COVID-19? Each has been an example of the media practice of “bothsidesism,” whereby journalists strive to present both sides of an issue, even in cases where most credible sources fall on one side.
Bothsidesism — also referred to as false balance reporting — can damage the public’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and lead audiences to doubt the scientific consensus on pressing societal challenges like climate change, a new Northwestern University study has found.
“The devastating heat wave in Europe this week is a reminder that we need to take urgent action to slow human-caused warming, but the media is still giving air to the opinions of people who do not believe there is cause for alarm, which makes the problem seem less dire than it actually is,” said David Rapp, a psychologist and professor at Northwestern’s School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) who coauthored the research.
The argument that climate change is not man made has been incontrovertibly disproven by science again and again, yet many Americans believe that the global crisis is either not real, not of our making, or both, in part because the news media has given climate change deniers a platform in the name of balanced reporting, according to the researchers.
This is not journalism, it’s unhinged belief in a cult. Notice that they almost never actually show that the current warm period is mostly/solely caused by Mankind? Also notice, as I’ve mentioned ad nauseum, that they people who say they believe in this malarkey rarely practice what they preach.
In the study, the researchers found that false-balance reporting can make people doubt the scientific consensus on issues like climate change, sometimes making them wonder if an issue is even worth taking seriously.
In other words, how dare anyone give a contrarian viewpoint! And those who do must be shut down. Consensus is not science.
Conservatives always want to teach the controversy! We should discuss Intelligent Design along with Biological Evolution. We should discuss God’s Creation as well as the Big Bang Theory. We should give the 6000 year old Earth Model with the 4 billion year Earth theory. Flat Earth vs Unproven Sphere Theory? So sure, give the Is Not Theory of Global Warming (INTGW) equal time with the CO2 Theory of Global Warming.
Dear Elwood:
Well there was that old blood letting cure, wipe your apron to get birthing business, criminals have bumps on their heads, the earth is the center of everything…… and now……(get ready)…..
THE EARTH IS BURNING…
Yeah, science has always been right….
except when it was wrong….
Which makes perfect sense, seeing as there are several alternate theories and the agw theory has yet to be demonstrated by a simple experiment 120 years after its inception. “Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts”. Richard Feynman
Please describe the simple experiment you’re proposing. Thanks.
An object emits LWIR (as all do), and CO2 absorbs and re-emits some of that LWIR that returns and warms the initial object-the agw “theory”. You’re welcome
Does the Earth’s atmosphere (nitrogen 78%, oxygen 21%, argon 1%, CO2 0.04%, H2O-variable) keep the Earth “warmer” than if there was no atmosphere?
That is fairly stupid, even for you jeff.
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“False balance” is what we have NOW. We are getting one side – the side of the “scientists” paid by the government or organizations that have already decided that WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! Eleventy!
I wonder why these “scientists” keep reaching that conclusion when they’re being paid to do so. A real puzzler there.
Jl
The fact that CO2 readily absorbs infrared radiation has been well known for over 120 years
Not knowing or denying that is willfully ignorance
Can you give an alternative explanation for the increase in Temps?
Sun irradiance?
Orbital change?
Maybe so.ething supernatural like God?
John,
No, CO2 does nothing to the temp. Global communism which you and jeff desire will not lower CO2.
Mt. Etna erupted and dumped more CO2 into the atmosphere than all of mankind ever.
The Hirsute One wrote:
Yet, oddly enough, scientists talking about what Venus, with an atmosphere of more than 90% carbon dioxide, was like pictured a steamy, but still life-supporting jungle planet, until the Mariner 2 flyby in 1962 measured wholly inhospitable temperatures.
“CO2 absorbs IR.”. So does water vapor, and does a lot more of it. “Alternative explanations”. You do realize that no alternative explanation is required, because the agw explanations has yet to be verified. But anyway, there are several…. https://phzoe.com/2021/02/12/effect-of-clouds-on-global-upwelling-radiation/
A https://phzoe.com/2022/06/24/7-decades-of-net-solar-radiation/
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Jl,
Jeff asking for a demonstration that would prove his hypothesis is one of his stupid tricks. The fact is that he must provide the evidence, if he can’t then by scientific law his hypothesis is void. He can’t get this straight and the carbon religion has never provided any evidence to support their trash, only correlation which rarely if ever is causation.
But a good, simple experiment is to take two greenhouses with elements that do not block IR. Jeff loves to say that glass blocks IR even though it does not. Now, keep one house with ordinary air and infuse CO2 to high levels. Watch the temp and you would see no change in temp. Case closed. But Jeff can not accept this or any other proof.