45 Comments

Thanks for the detailed refutation of obvious media lies, Michael. I wish a few Republican politicians had the balls to take on the the issue of scientific accuracy in the media, as you have. The UN and the media "own" the science at this point. We have to take it back! The voting public are not all naive or gullible. Presented with well-documented facts over a period time, many of them can be won over.

Expand full comment

This is such an important article, among the others you have been writing. The only way the lies of government, academia and the media can be exposed and eventually discredited by the public is by this kind of careful, clear, well researched writing. The scale and reach of the propaganda is so mind-boggling that the 40-50 plus percent who consume it unthinkingly dismiss someone like me who tries to describe what is happening as a deluded purveyor of conspiracy theories. It is like the reaction of Felix Frankfurter to an eyewitness account of Holocaust horrors reported in Ken Burns' recent work, "I cannot believe what you are telling me."

Expand full comment

Another great statement of facts that belie the false narrative of climatic apocalypse.

I believe in science; the media believe in advancing a narrative. As they used to openly say in television journalism, “If it bleeds it leads”. Meaning journalism is prone to sensationalism.

Sadly today, even once-reputable newspapers are knowingly regurgitating the “climate narrative.” Worst yet still, it is not even to sell more newspapers -but to conform.

What sheep!!

Expand full comment
Oct 4, 2022·edited Oct 4, 2022

It is really sad and infuriating to witness what has happened to journalism in the past 6ish years. The legacy media has abandoned any traditional notion of journalism (loosely, the practice of uncovering and presenting facts and following where they lead, as opposed to arriving with a preconceived narrative and fitting all facts and ideas to it) and instead they've become Narrative Enforcement Agents, where there is a single consensus on every issue held by the Serious People (the elite who believe they're "saving democracy") and everyone who disagrees needs to be smeared, denounced, and hounded out of polite society.

I think it started with the Trump Russia hysteria, which was the route the legacy media (and their customers) and our legacy institutions took instead of looking in the mirror and admitting they were part of the reason a tacky game-show host defeated "the most qualified candidate in history".

And I guess once you've already denounced half your population as rubes, racists or racist rubes (in for a penny in for a pound) the next step was wielding every narrative like a cudgel to batter your opponents. Even when Russiagate unraveled it was still Official Truth (aint returning those Pulitzers!) and then it was off to the races w so many distortions: Trump as Hitler, Putin as Hitler, Covid as Black Plague (at least until everyone agreed "Systemic Racism" was the real virus) , the lab-leak theory was 1000% false, vaccines 1000% effective at stopping spread with zero side effects, the punitive enforcement of mandates, and now the next manufactured emergency: if you don't submit to our Net Zero fantasies the world is going to end!!

I guess official American journalism now means you either enforce the Official Narrative in all settings at all costs, ignore any contradictory info or context, or else look for a new line of work. And as we can see, there will always be people willing to say or do anything if it allows them to keep their paychecks and status.

But, hey, if they hadn't renounced their own principles and destroyed their own credibility, I wouldn't have found Substack or the great Michael Shellenberger...so there's a bright side to everything!

Expand full comment

Thanks for this as always. I'd only quibble that David Leonhardt has done a good job on COVID--he has been a magnificent distorter of the underlying data and consistently ignored, like all media, the science that is ideologically inconvenient. He is among the worst offenders in that regard, in fact, though the whole paper has been disgraceful on COVID, especially vaccine efficacy and safety.

Expand full comment
founding

TheNarrativeTM has worn thin. Thanks for further fraying their fraudulent fabric.

Expand full comment

Thanks Michael. You are always enlightening. Unfortunately I am going to stop reading the comments here since almost all of them use the Left's ignorance about energy and their exaggeration of climate change effects to paint them as wrong about everything right across the political board. Believe me, guys and gals, you are never going to get progressives to listen to you on energy and climate as long as you engage in propaganda and hyperbole. I've been a proud Democrat for 58 of my 76 years, and the main reason I don't call myself a progressive is that progressives engage in the same kind of propaganda and hyperbole that I've been reading far too much of on this forum from the opposite end of the political spectrum.

Expand full comment

The whole idea of global warming is based on a lie. NASA can measure the earths heat and they don't see a buildup. CO2 cannot be a problem because 8 billion humans inhale O2 and exhale CO2 as do most other forms of life including fish in the ocean.

As I( have pointed out previously, the earth itself gives off heat. To me it seems obvious in that if the earth did not give off heat it would soon attain the temperature of outer space, which is near absolute zero.

Expand full comment

Michael, I think there is an additional question that should be asked. If they are lying about it what do they expect to gain from this lie? Do they expect to get the public to absolutely believe that climate change is real and that action must be taken to address it? Maybe just maybe the issue isn't climate change but in fact getting the actions taken to address it is their real goal. Because those actions imply someone has the power to take those actions. So maybe it is just raw power they seek.

Expand full comment
founding

“ Good science always wins in the end, even if it takes a little while.” - I wish. But, this isn’t true.

Expand full comment
founding

A lie that takes society toward “progress” is true by the CCP’s definition of truth: whatever advances the Revolution. This is also the California Democratic Party’s definition of truth... it has totally sold out to the CCP. We will see how much power this position has within the national Democratic Party by examining their behavior during the midterms. The more they try to throw the midterms, the more committed they are to hard-core lying to get their way.

Expand full comment

"The role of the corporate press isn't merely to train the population as to what to think. It is there to train them regarding what to think about--or what not to think about." -Michael Malice

Expand full comment

Michael,

Have you read about The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis by Javier Vinos and Andy May? If so, I would be interested to know what you think about their ideas. I can’t speak for them, but in my naive understanding it seems they suggest that meridional transport of energy and moisture (which in turn is correlated with solar activity?) is a major (perhaps the most significant) control knob for climate change.

Expand full comment

Thanks, I would like to add that when I search tor technical info that was available at one time cannot be found. They have removed everything contrary to their point of view. They have a lot of power, but they can be brought to justice by civil action.

Expand full comment

Thanks, Micheal. You made my blood boil - again!

Expand full comment

I remember evidence of statistics fraud a few years ago regarding the cherry picking of temperature measurements by climate "scientists" that questioned the very existence of climate warming. By selecting only the highest readings from the multiple reporting weather stations the green wienies were able to "report" global warming that wasn't in accord with the averaging of all such data. I haven't believed anything they have said since then.

Fauci and company, no doubt, learned from them. Mark Twain wrote, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." While I recognize the weakness inherent in trying to bolster an argument with a comedian's quote, I reply that Mark Twain was much more than just a comedian. He was an astute observer of human nature. And a pithy quote often jolts us into paying closer attention.

Expand full comment