After an Australian academic website called The Conversation tweeted, “it’s time to ban climate denial” in the media, UC-Boulder Professor Roger Pielke, Jr., weighed in to show the consequences of such censorship.
Pielke is a political scientist who actually argues human-caused climate change is “real and poses significant risks.” He’s also argued for decarbonization.
However, he often criticizes bad science promoted by the news media or pushed by climate alarmists. His views were unacceptable to some media, which he said have blocked him on Twitter.
“Ban on ‘climate denialism’ in practice looks like this … I am blocked on Twitter by reporters from @washingtonpost @nytimes @voxdotcom I can’t see their comments & they can’t see mine. Also, I’m one of the most cited academics in the world on extreme weather,” he tweeted on Sept. 24.
Ban on “climate denialism” in practice looks like this …
I am blocked on Twitter by reporters from the @washingtonpost @nytimes @voxdotcom
I can’t see their comments & they can’t see mine.
Also, I’m one of the most cited academics in the world on extreme weather.
🙊🙈🙉 https://t.co/zHKvqqIYUi— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 24, 2019
The Conversation described itself as “Independent news + analysis from the sharpest academic minds. Australians Crikey News heralded the site’s censorship writing:
“The Conversation‘s decision to bar climate denialists from commenting on articles is a critical step forward in the media fixing up the mess it has created over climate change.”
In the Conversation’s own announcement it called the new “zero-tolerance” policy against climate skepticism a step it was taking to “improve” its coverage of climate.
It made the change during the week it signed up for “Covering Climate Now,” a left-wing media effort driven by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to increase alarmist coverage of climate issues.
“Climate change deniers, and those shamelessly peddling pseudoscience and misinformation, are perpetuating ideas that will ultimately destroy the planet. As a publisher, giving them a voice on our site contributes to a stalled public discourse,” wrote Conversation digital editor Molly Glassey.
She continued, “That’s why the editorial team in Australia is implementing a zero-tolerance approach to moderating climate change deniers, and skeptics. Not only will we be removing their comments, we’ll be locking their accounts.”
So much for conversation.
Sadly, media choosing to censor critics on climate issues isn’t new. Prominent news outlets including the BBC and Los Angeles Times have taken similar stances.
Read more at NewsBusters
Heresy is a more accurate word than denial. If Pielke supports the theory of AGW, then he’s a member of a religious cult. He can leave that church anytime.
Roger Pielke Jr is akin to Bjorn Lomborg in his postions. He isn’t an AGW alarmist, but does hold that there is some human effect on climate. But like Lomborg he looked at realistic solutions based on new technologies to adapt to climate, and thus drummed out of the debate a few years ago by the AGW loons, so he rarely addresses climate topics at all these days. He is definitely an authority on being censored.
Just typical of the left to silence all those who disagree with them in anyway they can just like Meet the Press oh silence the skeptics so only the true beleivers in this Global Warming/Climate Change poppycock are heard im sure Hitler,Stalin and Mao did the same and so did Castro
Apparently Hitler is alive and well afterall.
Wow. Communism really alive and well in Oz. If fear mongering doesn’t work you close every other voice down, How very Soviet of you. The left are always screaming and branding everyone as racist, fascist etc yet they are blatant old word communists in every sense of the word. They want world power and will stop at nothing to get it.