A search of Google News today for the term “climate change” turns up a story from the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais (“the country,” in English) discussing the various harms people are suffering as a result of severe drought impacting Mexico.
However, nowhere in the Pais story does it claim Mexico’s drought is the result of global warming or climate change.
Also, scientific data and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) strongly refute any claimed link between Mexican drought and global warming.
Instead, Google is promoting scientific misinformation by making a unilateral decision to affirmatively and arbitrarily link drought to “climate change.”
The author of the El Pais article, titled “The drought that is scorching Mexico, a predictable and devastating tragedy,” writes, “The drought currently ravaging Mexico is a recurring phenomenon that leaves a trail of damage and destruction in its wake every time it strikes.”
“Mexico’s geographical location and its climate make the country extremely vulnerable to droughts and periods of high rainfall,” says El Pais, continuing, “60% of Mexico’s landmass – being historically accustomed to extreme conditions.”
Mexico’s historic cycles of drought and extreme rainfall are caused by a number of factors, notes El Pais.
In particular, the newspaper cites Mexico’s location, geography, and El Niño and La Niña cycles, for the country’s drought and rainfall history.
According to El Pais, factors that often lead to severe water shortages in Mexico during periods of drought, despite plentiful rainfall preceding them, include deforestation, urban sprawl, the destruction of wetlands, and poor water planning and management.
Climate change is not among the factors El Pais cites as causing Mexico’s drought or water shortfalls. El Pais does not link Mexican drought to global warming for good reason.
As detailed in Climate at a Glance: Drought, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports with “high confidence” that precipitation has increased over mid-latitude land areas of the Northern Hemisphere during the past 70 years, while IPCC has “low confidence” about any negative trends globally.
El Pais was correct not to link global warming to Mexico’s current water woes because there is no such connection.
Google News should have followed El Pais’ example, rather than hyping a false connection between drought in Mexico and global warming.
Google News should post a note on its own search engine webpage page announcing it is being censored and blocked from all future activity due to publishing falsehoods and misinformation.
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One way to understand the greater fear of climate change among children is that children have not yet developed their faculties of critical evaluation of fear mongering claims such as the willy nilly attribution of all things bad to climate change.
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Maybe a case of the climate science principle that the less they know the scarier it gets.
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99% of the news we get is Fake News CNN is the leader of the pack followed by the NYT’s
Australia is the driest inhabited continent. Australia is also one of the most urbanised nations in the World, with almost all of that urbanisation spread along the more mild coastal climate zones. And Australia infamously ranks behind Kazakhstan in maths education and our science teaching is also sub-standard.
Mix these three together and one has the perfect recipe for climate change propaganda.
In Australian schools, the humanities are effectively a climate catastrophe subject. What hope do the children have if their parents are so removed from the dominant national climate?
Well, a solution is possible. In an unreliables-powered future, air-conditioning and a reliable water-supply may well become a thing of the past and more people may have to experience our drought-prone climates on a daily basis. Industrialisation will also fail and more people will need to work in the bush, including in the dry inland.
Just like the old days.
Or we could be as clever as we think we are and just work things out for ourselves.
I would have said that we should listen to the aged, but elderly catastrophists are easily found. They are, on this subject, vastly experienced idiots. They will read the reports of carbonageddon in Mexico and swallow every word.
As someone once said, ‘There’s no fool like an old fool.’
These screwballs try to blame everything from Riots to Burnt Toast on Global Warming/Climate Change Its a total Consperacy against America and he Free World