(h/t Rúnar O.) The horrific Australian wildfires are the result of many causes, not just climate change – and much can be done to reduce wildfire risk through well-researched, well-known mitigation techniques.
The public should know this. But Poynter Institute’s ‘fact check’ network and Facebook are preventing the public from learning about wildfire mitigation techniques that were not properly implemented or arsonists who are known to start many wildfires.
Poynter Institute claims to be a global leader in journalism and in support of a free press, and democracy.
Poynter has partnered with Facebook on a journalism integrity project to supposedly prevent false news from distribution, but instead, it is blocking important facts from getting to the public.
Poynter set up the “International Fact Checking Network” (IFCN), which is a network of journalists and scientists of various disciplines who are supposed to provide non-partisan and objective reviews of news items to ensure that false news is not distributed.
Based on IFCN pronouncements, Facebook will then demote page quality is a post is deemed to be ‘false news’ (i.e. does not promote climate change as the cause of wildfires).
The problem is that Poynter, IFCN, its sub-networks of Science Feedback and Climate Feedback, and Facebook all seem to be stuck in climate dogma.
This video summarizes much of the material in Friends of Science Society’s open letter to Poynter and Facebook on this topic.
Read more at Friends Of Science
And let’s not forget that Australia had far worse bush fires many decades ago, long before CO2 in the atmosphere was an issue. Blaming “climate change” for the wildfires is actually the “fake” claim.
Ah, but that’s what they want is to have the sheeple not know that forest fires have been worse, that heat has been higher, that droughts have been longer, etc. in the past. That way they can be convinced that we must do something!