Liberal media outlets have long been infatuated with doomsday predictions about climate change, with journalists blaming a wide variety of sociopolitical issues like hate speech and terrorism on the ongoing increase in global average temperature.
Democrats and their cohorts in the media have often blamed major hurricanes, tornadoes, and other extreme weather events on climate change. But, their dire warnings about the issue have also led them to blame more unconventional problems on changes to our global climate. [bold, links added]
Effect of climate change on babies in the womb
A New York Times opinion piece released last week claimed that babies in the womb can be negatively impacted by climate change, citing a study published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
The study compared babies in utero during [Superstorm Sandy], versus kids who were born or conceived after the storm.
According to Times opinion writer Jessica Grose, the study found higher rates of psychological issues among kids who lived through the hurricane while inside the womb.
“The study’s authors found that boys who were exposed to Sandy in the womb had elevated risks for “attention-deficit/disruptive behavioral disorders,” while girls had elevated risks for anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, and phobias,” Grose wrote.
The writer suggested that extensive climate legislation, much larger than the Inflation Reduction Act, was needed to combat the issue, based on the idea that climate change would continue to increase the severity and frequency of severe weather events, thus impacting pregnant women.
Possible link between climate change and ‘hate speech’
A week earlier, a Washington Post article claimed that climate change was leading to a rise in “hate speech” incidences, spurred by hotter temperatures across the globe.
In an October 13 report, titled, “Hotter days bring out hotter tempers, research finds,” weather reporter Amudalat Ajasa cited two studies that show that because of climate change, extreme temperatures are inducing people to engage in “hate speech and hostile behavior.”
According to one of the studies, “hate speech on social media escalated with high temperatures.” The other found that there was “an increase in workplace harassment and discrimination at the U.S. Postal Service when the temperature eclipsed 90 degrees.”
Delving more specifically into the data, the reporter cited the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research’s study, which found an “increase of hate speech of up to 22 percent on Twitter when temperatures are above 107 degrees Fahrenheit.”
Not only that but “extreme cold” coincided with a rise in “offensive tweets.”
Ajasa claimed that scientists made these findings by using “a machine-learning algorithm to analyze 75 million hate tweets from a database containing over 4 billion tweets posted by people across the United States between 2014 and 2020. The algorithm showed that aggressive behavior was the tamest between 54 and 70 degrees.
Climate change to blame for rising childhood obesity
In August, CBS pushed a study blaming climate change for rising childhood obesity rates.
Co-host Nate Burleson introduced the study published in the journal “Temperature” that argued “climate change, specifically warmer temperatures is making our children more inactive and more obese.”
Burleson said the study found that children were 30% less “aerobically fit” than their parents and claimed hotter temperatures were preventing kids from exercising outside. [It’s also known as parents not telling their kids to put down the remote or tablet and get the hell outside and play.]
Climate change helped to strengthen ISIS, The Taliban, and more
A year earlier, CBS News released a report that claimed climate change had helped strengthen the Taliban.
In the report titled “How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban,” CBS News’ climate and energy reporter Cara Korte highlighted that “rural Afghanistan” has been “rocked by climate change,” and said the Taliban has “taken advantage” of those who have suffered from floods and droughts that have destroyed their crops and left them hungry.
The report also made note of the impact of climate change on an increase in floods in the winter, caused by the melting of snow and glaciers in the country’s northern mountains.
Furthermore, the report noted that rain had increased in the south and west of Afghanistan by 10-25% over the past 30 years.
Such flooding had allegedly led Taliban forces to exploit and recruit Afghan farmers, who are told they could make up their lost profits by joining the group.
In recent years, concerns over how climate change could fuel conflicts have gained traction. National Geographic, in particular, often floated the idea that extreme weather, such as droughts and storms, could exacerbate economic and political turmoil in destabilizing regions.
On at least three separate occasions, National Geographic floated a similar theory in regard to ISIS recruitment in Iraq, a lack of peace in Afghanistan, and the Syrian War.
Two years ago in 2020, the magazine released an article titled “In Afghanistan, climate change complicates future prospects for peace.”
Alleging that Afghanistan is one of the most vulnerable, and least equipped countries in the world to handle climate change, the papers consulted experts warned that climate change would fuel natural disasters, leading to mass displacement, child marriage, and violence.
In November 2018, National Geographic published a piece entitled “Climate change and water woes drove ISIS Recruiting in Iraq.”
The piece claimed that shifting resources, and desperate farmers were “driven into terror recruiters’ clutches,” and questioned whether such a scenario could happen again, or become worse in the future.
Just a year earlier the magazine said the refugee crisis facing the European Union could become far worse as climate change wreaks havoc on Syria and other Eastern Mediterranean countries.
“As warming worsens, these influxes would accelerate. Under one scenario where warming stabilizes by 2100, asylum applications could increase by some 28 percent. But in a scenario with “business-as-usual” warming, applications could nearly triple, to more than a million asylum seekers per year,” the report stated.
In a 2015 report, the magazine linked a number of droughts in Syria and South Sudan to climate change and claimed that it had made the Syrian Civil War worse.
“Drought, worsened by climate change, led to mass migration that helped spark the Syrian conflict, researchers say,” the report said in part.
Climate change will cause murders, rapes, and assaults to rise: MSNBC guest
The possible link between violence and climate change was also discussed by MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panel back in 2019.
At the time, journalist and author David Wallace-Wells claimed that there was a direct correlation between rising temperatures and conflict on the planet.
“For every half a degree of warming, we’re expected to see a 10 or 20% increase in conflicts. So if we get to where we’re going by the end of the century, we could have twice as much war as we have today. And that conflict happens even at the individual levels, so we’ll see rises in murder rates and rape, domestic assault. It spikes the rates at which people are admitted to mental hospitals,” Wallace-Wells said.
Screenwriter says climate change could cause real-life ‘sharknado’
Conversations about climate change have even cropped up in media interviews related to popular entertainment. Such was the case in 2014 in a conversation between anchor Tamron Hall and screenwriter Thunder Levin.
During the interview, Hall asked Levin how he and his colleagues came up with a story as original “Sharknado,” to which Levin said that it was time to alert the world to the perils of global warming and “bio-mediaology,” and to get facts out to everyone.
“Because this can happen,” Hall laughed.
“Absolutely it can happen,” Levin replied. It was unclear during the interview if the “Sharknado” creator was serious about his comments.
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Climate Change will cause Robins to eat your next door neighbor Climate Change will cause Seagulls to turn Maneaters Climate Change will make Dolphins hostile to humans .Just what else will those Crack-Pots come up with?
What about climate change causing a dramatic increase in junk science?
A few climate and environmental facts for the regressive science illiterate left – television “journalists” like CBC’s John Northcott:
1) we live in an ongoing Pleistocene/Quaternary Ice Age which is the coldest 12°C range of glacial/interglacial temperatures since multicellular life began nearly 600 million years ago. Some climate liar paid Shakun et al to use 3 or 4 different scales in their contorted graph to make it appear as if climate is unnaturally warming. It isn’t. Who says so? Shakun himself. Then whoever paid for this phony graph took it to indoctrinate kids with their fake crisis and unjustified fear of climate and fossil fuel energy. Disgusting child abuse IMHO.
2) life on earth is carbon based. Every lifeform on earth is composed entirely of little carbon sacks of water called cells. The most abundant element in life is oxygen (from cellular H2O). The 2nd most abundant element in life is carbon (from cellular carbon sacks). There is barely enough CO2 in our atmosphere to sustain life. A 0.01% increase in atmospheric CO2 has made the environment greener, stronger, more drought tolerant, and abundant. That is the science of CO2 fertility. Because we are all literally made of the stuff.
3) Solar and wind are inflationary power sources that don’t work when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. They drive up the cost of energy and are bringing energy poverty deaths back to some of the richest countries on the planet. There is no rational place for solar and wind on the grid. They don’t work when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. So they require 100% backup from the three conventional sources of energy – coal, oil, and gas (85%), nuclear (7%), and hydroelectricity (7%). (Worldwide stats).
4) There is NO climate crisis. We are ten times safer from the climate than we were a century ago. A century ago climate killed an estimated 500,000 people a year. Today climate kills about 57,000. Florida’s hurricane Ian killed an estimated 100 people. The deadliest hurricane in US history hit Galveston, Texas in 1900. It killed an estimated 6,000-12,000 people. We’ve been solving climate safety for several centuries. That is the story of energy.
5) The most important biological process in life on earth is photosynthesis. It literally makes the environment green (with its green pigmented enzyme chlorophyll). Photosynthsis’s formula is sunlight plus CO2 plus H2O converts sunlight to high energy sugar bonds and atmospheric oxygen (O2). (life was born in a completely anaerobic atmosphere (without any oxygen). It allows the entire Animal Kingdom to exist. When we use coal, oil, and gas to make ourselves the best fed, longest living, most prosperous human beings in our two to four hundred thousand year existence, we also recycle life’s two most important ingredients – CO2 and H2O. MAKING FOSSIL FUELS OUR ONLY GREEN ENERGY.
6) At 400ppm, the environment remains in starvation level low amounts of the basic ingredient of our carbon based life – CO2. Any level of CO2 below 2,000ppm is a starvation level low. How do we know? Because greenhouse growers add up to 1,600ppm CO2 to their operations to make their plants bigger, stronger, greener, and more water efficient. That is the science of CO2 fertility. Something our climate and environmentally ignorant media know nothing about.