AOC-linked climate change group chastises media ‘objectivity’ by calling on press to ban ‘climate deniers’

By Jon Dougherty

(NationalSentinel) A group known as The Climate Mobilization, which has called for a World War II-style mobilization to combat “climate change” and is aligned with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders, is criticizing American media outlets for allowing “climate deniers” to express their views.

As such, the group wants media to ban them in an effort to silence all opposition to “climate change” rhetoric.







“Some media outlets are sacrificing the future of our planet for the sake of appearing objective,” Margaret Klein Salamon, founder and executive director of The Climate Mobilization, said in a news release Saturday.

“This idea of equating climate deniers with scientific experts is a dangerous practice which frames the threat to our planet, our existence as an ongoing debate,” Klein Salamon added.

“I donâ€™t think sacrificing the future of our planet in exchange for a look of ‘objectivity’ is an even exchange. Itâ€™s one the coming generation will judge us on, if we donâ€™t move with the urgency necessary to fight back against global warming and win.”

The group cited aÂ NewsweekÂ articleÂ regarding a study fromÂ Nature CommunicationsÂ whose authors claimed that the U.S. news media gives “climate change deniers too much prominence by placing people with little understanding of the complexities involved in the same league as top scientists.”

“It’s time to stop giving these people visibility, which can be easily spun into false authority,” University of California Merced Professor Alex Petersen said in a statement.





Petersen and his team examined the digital footprints of voices for and against climate alarmism across 100,000 media articles, finding that about half of mainstream outlets seek out “climate denying” experts.

The study suggests that scientists who speak out against climate change alarmism aren’t really scientists at all but hacks.

“It’s not just false balance; the numbers show that the media are ‘balancing’ expertsâ€”who represent the overwhelming majority of reputable scientistsâ€”with the views of a relative handful of non-experts,” Professor LeRoy Westerling, the study’s author, said in a statement.

“Most of the contrarians are not scientists, and the ones who are have very thin credentials. They are not in the same league with top scientists. They aren’t even in the league of the average career climate scientist.”

That said, Nature Communications‘ studyÂ found that 224 of the 386 “climate change contrarians” quoted by the media have managed to publish at least one peer-reviewed study in scientific journals.

In January 2017, Judith Curry, former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, resigned from her post, criticizing the alarmist ideology that dominates her field.

“I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science,” Curry wrote.

“Research and other professional activities are professionally rewarded only if they are channeled in certain directions approved by a politicized academic establishment â€” funding, ease of getting your papers published, getting hired in prestigious positions, appointments to prestigious committees and boards, professional recognition, etc.,” she added.

“How young scientists are to navigate all this is beyond me, and it often becomes a battle of scientific integrity versus career suicide (I have worked through these issues with a number of skeptical young scientists),” Curry wrote.

Some in the media are getting the message. NBC News host Chuck Todd announced in January he would no longer feature ‘climate deniers’ on his show because the science is “settled” or something like that.

“We’re not going to debate climate change, the existence of it. The Earth is getting hotter. And human activity is a major cause, period. We’re not going to give time to climate deniers. The science is settled, even if political opinion is not,” he said.

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