Telemundo, the second-largest Spanish language U.S. television network, will now use “climate emergency” to describe global warming, citing the “scientific community and linguistics experts.”
This comes one month after The Guardian, a prominent U.K. newspaper, discarded climate change in favor of more alarming terms, like “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown.”
Critics say hyping global warming coverage is sure to hurt the credibility of media outlets.
“This can only backfire,” said Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot and author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide To Climate Change.”
“To further hype global warming to their new pet phrase ‘climate emergency’ will only serve to expose the media as having no objectivity on this issue,” Morano told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email.
A Telemundo executive, however, said terms like global warming and climate change — phrases routinely used by scientists — did not reflect the “reality” the world is facing.
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“The use of clear and accurate language in covering critical subjects such as the climate emergency is not merely an option for journalists; it is their duty,” said Luis Fernández, Telemundo’s executive vice president of network news, Accuracy in Media reported Wednesday.
“The scientific community and linguistics experts agree that the world is facing a ‘climate emergency,’” Fernández said. “Terms such as ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’ do not fully reflect this reality, and at Noticias Telemundo, we are true to our commitment to tell things as they are.”
The Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner made a similar argument when announcing her outlet’s move to more alarming rhetoric.
“The phrase ‘climate change,’ for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity,” Viner said in May.
Critics, however, pointed out that while most climate scientists agree that human activities are warming the world, words like “crisis” or “emergency” are not widely used in any serious scientific literature.
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They should preface every announcement with “WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE”
Global warming , climate change and this years campaign motto …. climate emergency . The gist of the scam is if we just ruin our economies and standard of living we can stop the climate from changing … or OK to within a degree of
some Goldbrick number . Utter crap .
The New Green Deal is an example of how far the nut jobs are proposing to destroy the economies of any fool that buys their scam .
$Trillions wasted on an arrogant , deceitful con game to rob tax payers
and finance global government to be run by communists .
If you call a dust devil a tornado, it is still a dust devil. As the climate change predictions continue to fail, the fact that they have used terms such as climate crisis and climate emergency will make it more obvious that this entire movement is bogus.
Great point. Ratchet up the alarmist language, and as it fails to match the bogus dire predictions, so goes credibility.
Except all the predictions are so far out into the future that by the time it fails to occur, the average person forgot about the alarmist emergency predictions to begin with.
All the news is mostly leftists propeganda not real news CNN/NYT’s,BBC,Time,Rolling Stone,Newsweek,Etc all leftists propeganda
Leftist Alarmist Media (LAMe)
The more the left-wing media use such apocalyptic terms while ordinary people look out their windows and see normal weather the less they will be believed. We’ve been hearing about the end of times now since the Global Cooling scare of the ’70’s and then the much-hyped articles (and Al Gore’s “movie”) about the end of snow, ice in the arctic, famines, etc, etc, etc with none of it coming true. But when it doesn’t happen they just move the goalposts and yell louder that the end is near.