Correction, Please!
Media Portray Misleading UN Climate Report as Proof of World’s End
Nothing out of the ordinary: Liberals claim that the number of natural disasters, such as wildfires, is increasing due to human-caused climate change, but a study of historical records shows that wildfires, hurricanes, and floods are not occurring with abnormal frequency. (Photo credit: AP Images)
Item: The New York Times, in its August 9 print edition, blared this leading Page One headline: “A Hotter Future Is Now Inevitable, a U.N. Report Says.” Nations, says the piece, “have delayed curbing their fossil-fuel emissions for so long that they can no longer stop global warming from intensifying over the next 30 years, though there is still a short window to prevent the most harrowing future, a major new United Nations scientific report has concluded.”
According to the leftist paper: “Humans have already heated the planet by roughly 1.1 degrees Celsius, or 2 degrees Fahrenheit, since the 19th century, largely by burning coal, oil and gas for energy. And the consequences can be felt across the globe: This summer alone, blistering heat waves have killed hundreds of people in the United States and Canada, floods have devastated Germany and China, and wildfires have raged out of control in Siberia, Turkey and Greece.”
Item: The latest United Nations climate report, insisted the Boston Globe for August 9, says the “world is on fire.” The report, “with its devastating assessment of the impacts already wrought by a warming world and dire predictions for what’s to come, is simultaneously terrifying, depressing, and overwhelming,” said the paper. Yet, concluded this left-wing newspaper, it also produced “a call to arms.”
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