CBS News just proved how far down the whirlpool of nonsense it’s willing to go. The outlet actually blamed climate change for Afghanistan’s terrorism outbreak following President Joe Biden’s massive foreign policy failure.
CBS News climate and energy reporter Cara Korte wrote an absurd story headlined: “How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban.”
She decried that “Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change,” before making the wild connection that “the Taliban — likely without knowing climate change was the cause — has taken advantage of that pain.”
But CBS News was singing a different tune six years ago when it blamed “opium profits” — not climate change — for strengthening the Taliban in a 2015 story headlined: “Taliban set to double opium profits this year?”
CBS News said in 2015 that the Taliban derived 40 percent of its funding from the illicit opium trade, which “fuel[ed] their insurgency.”
Climate change wasn’t even mentioned in the 2015 story. Talk about a whopping narrative shift. [Emphasis added.]
Korte ignored mentioning the “billions” in profits the Taliban made off of its illicit drug trade until the seventeenth paragraph of her story.
But she blamed the opium trade on the false narrative that farmers were struggling to produce other crops and climate change.
Korte said in the first paragraph of her piece that the Taliban derived its strength from three decades of “floods and drought” that have “destroyed crops and left people hungry.”
But this isn’t true. Heartland Institute President James Taylor used United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization cereal crop yields (corn, wheat, and rice) data to upend the propaganda from CBS News:
“Afghanistan has fully doubled its crop yields during the past three decades.” He continued: “Also, Afghan farmers have set new production records on a regular basis, especially during the past few years.”
Even the Holocaust-denying Al Jazeera ran a story on Aug. 16, 2021, blaming opium for the Taliban’s comeback: “Opium: Afghanistan’s drug trade that helped fuel the Taliban.” Al Jazeera didn’t mention climate change in its story.
Climate Depot founder Marc Morano joined Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News on Aug. 20 to also go after CBS News for using climate nonsense to shift blame away from Biden’s blunders.
“There’s no end to which the media and academia will not defend progressives and Democrats in power using climate,” Morano stated.
Contact CBS Evening News at (212)*******47 and demand it stops arbitrarily shifting blame for the Afghanistan terror crisis away from Biden and toward so-called climate change.
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How much of this fetid propaganda are we supposed to put up with??? The doddery old fool serving as acting POTUS is responsible for Afghanistan’s terrorism outbreak. Everything can be traced directly to Dementia Joe Biden’s massive foreign policy failure!
The exceptional intelligence of the humans is corrupted by the exceptional superstition of the humans such that once the AGW fear is created, all things bad are seen by these otherwise intelligent creatures as climate change impacts.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/08/20/impact-of-agw-on-humans/
See also
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/08/03/confirmationbias/
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CBS – Communist Bullshit Show. How stupid is the so called journalist, how stupid do they really think people are? Democrat voters excluded of course.