The Guardian has reasserted its role as the flagship publication of climate alarmism, warning Monday that entire cities in the UK could be underwater by the end of the century.
Without “urgent action to adapt to and confront global heating,” the Guardian declares, Europe could face “possible forest fires, floods, droughts and deluges” by the year 2100.
Referring to a series of maps plotting possible effects from greenhouse gas emissions scenarios and climate models, Guardian writer Jennifer Rankin states that climate change could produce a one-meter rise in sea levels over the next 80 years, which would mean “90% of the surface of Hull would be underwater.”
These maps of Europe predict the “scale of climate catastrophe” Europe will face, Ms. Rankin writes, which could include massive flooding of English cities such as “Norwich, Margate, Southend-on-Sea, Runcorn, and Blackpool.”
As the UK battles floods, “large areas of Spain, Portugal and France would be grappling with desertification, with the worst-affected zones experiencing a two and half-fold increase in droughts under the worst-case scenario,” she writes.
Such predictions, as wacky as they may sound, are very safe to make since they cannot be verified for eighty years, giving their creators plenty of time to modify their doomsday prophecies as reality requires.
Climate fear-mongering is nothing new at the Guardian. In July 2018, the newspaper insisted that climate change is the most dangerous threat faced by the nation.
“Climate change is a greater threat to the UK than EU directives, terrorism or a foreign power invading,” wrote Simon Lewis, a “professor of global change science” at University College London.
In its commitment to stoking fear of a climate apocalypse, the Guardian has taken an ever more radical position on the climate change issue, overhauling its official lexicon and banning anything that hints of skepticism regarding the environmental devastation promised by alarmists.
Last May, the newspaper declared it would no longer speak of climate skepticism but only of “deniers,” while replacing terms like “climate change” and “global warming” with the more emotionally charged expressions “climate crisis” and “global heating.”
The Guardian’s adoption of heightened climate rhetoric followed the publication of the results of a study by advertising consultants from SPARK Neuro, which suggested that the expressions “global warming” and “climate change” do not frighten people enough.
The group recommended a shift in vocabulary to “climate crisis” or “environmental collapse,” which produced a significantly stronger emotional response in a market sample.
As Extinction Rebellion (XR) spokesperson Zion Lights said on British television last October: “Alarmist language works.”
Last month, the Guardian waded still deeper into its own self-generated climate flood, this time with virtue signaling.
“The Guardian will no longer accept advertising from oil and gas companies, becoming the first major global news organization to institute an outright ban on taking money from companies that extract fossil fuels,” the paper announced.
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Coastal cities, if necessary, have plenty of time and ability to adapt. Newspapers, however, are struggling to stay afloat. Sensationalism is the Guardian’s survival strategy.
When you stop covering both sides of an issue, you are no longer reporting news, you’re trying to influence society.
Without a free exchange of ideas and innovative, and often counter mainstream, thought, there is no science, it’s just reduced to a cult.
Without free thinkers willing to challenge “settled science”, the world would be flat, the universe would orbit around the Earth, and doctors would use leeches to treat disease.
“Without urgent action, rising sea levels by end of century COULD leave cities under water” [emphasis added]
What urgent action?
Well…. If one COULD ASSUME it MAY possible “IF the concentrations of the different greenhouse gases continue to increase at current rates, peak concentration levels required to stay below a temperature increase of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels COULD be reached within the next 3-13 years. Peak concentration levels required to stay below a maximum 2 °C temperature increase COULD be reached in 15-29 years. In both cases a 50 % probability of exceedance and no (a?) temperature overshoot are ASSUMED.”
“Given the increasing concentration levels, negative emissions MAY become important to increase the probability of remaining below the temperature objectives agreed in the 2015 Paris Agreement on the climate.” [emphasis added]
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/atmospheric-greenhouse-gas-concentrations-6/assessment-1
IF! COULD! ASSUMED! MAY!
LIES! LIES! LIES! LIES!
the guardian is just your average liberal rag just like the NYT’s reading more like a tabloid then any real newspaper the fact that just about 99% of the M.S. Media is all fake news
“The Guardian will no longer accept advertising from oil and gas companies, becoming the first major global news organization to institute an outright ban on taking money from companies that extract fossil fuels,” the paper announced.
But of course the Guardian won’t stop using fossil fuels to distribute their newspapers, get their employees to/from work, keep the lights on and the printing presses running. Hypocrites!
I still hold out hope that the tedious climate hysterics of the Guardian and its fellow crypto-Marxist Malthusian death cultists have finally jumped the shark with Pippi Longnagging’s UN performance. One thing is certain: the economic suicide of continental Europe on the altar of climate change is not going to go unnoticed. In fact, it paves the way for the eventual breakup of the EU and the collapse of the euro zone when the next crisis strikes, as the paymasters of the EU will simply no longer be able to afford another round of bailouts. And if they try to do it anyway, they will quickly learn that they haven’t seen nothing yet in terms of surging “populism”.