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Author: Linny Luken
A recent article in new york post Bjorn Lomborg's article titled “Islands Shrink, Polar Bears Disappear – The Climate Scare Story Turns Out to Be Wrong” points to mainstream media claims that climate change is to blame for the many harms caused to polar bears, the Great Barrier Reef and more , Pacific island countries, have never happened. this is true. None of the climate alarmist disasters happened.
Lomborg writes that two major themes can be seen in government and media coverage of climate change over the past 20 years: “Activists' stubborn reluctance to acknowledge any inconvenient science, and the changing narrative of favorites, first Highlighted and then brushed aside.
Amid these changing stories, he said, one constant is “a relentless drive to scare the public, which in turn creates bad climate policy.”
This is true; the changing narrative around global greening in particular illustrates this well. Years ago, the dominant narrative was that climate change leading to desertification, or the death of lush ecosystems, was our future. This was portrayed in the media and in schools as a looming disaster. Alarmists say decades of data now show the opposite is happening, with leaf cover actually expanding over time during mild warming. greening is dangerous, as detailed in this section climate realism postal.
Lomborg explores various examples of climate crisis stories that are false and sometimes abandoned or downplayed because they were falsified by data that emerged over time. One case study Lomborg discusses is the polar bear craze.
He wrote, “After years of misinformation, it was finally impossible for them to ignore the overwhelming evidence that Global polar bear population The population has increased significantly from about 12,000 in the 1960s to about 26,000 today.
Alarmist media attempts to claim that melting sea ice is leading to more polar bear encounters and attacks on humans. However, a simpler explanation is that there are far more bears than there used to be, and there are more humans in the areas where bears naturally live. This is yet another attempt by the media to turn a positive (bear populations recovering from previous overhunting) into a negative.
The second false positive case study Lomborg discusses is the decline of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and other coral reefs.
“Scientists predict that the reef will be completely destroyed by 2022,” recalls Lomborg, “and the Guardian even published an obituary.” He noted that by 2024, the Great Barrier Reef will have more coral cover than since records began in 1985. at any point in time.
“Reports of good news are only a small part of the horror story,” Lomborg wrote.
climate overview and climate realism Having repeatedly had to debunk false media claims that the Great Barrier Reef and other barrier reefs are in decline, Lomborg’s views are accurate. The media rarely trumpet good news as much as bad news about various ecosystems such as the Great Barrier Reef, something they admitted with embarrassment after spending decades on disastrous coverage. Even if they do reluctantly report record coral extents and data trends globally and in the UK, they can't help but try to warn that they could still suddenly reverse course and become extinct.
Lomborg also dismissed suggestions that islands such as Tuvalu are sinking below sea level due to rising sea levels. “Almost all atoll islands are growing in size,” he noted. new york times (The New York Times) decided earlier this year to share with their readers that if they had relied solely on The New York Times for information on this issue, they might have been under the impression that the opposite was true until now.
“While rising sea levels are certainly eroding land, additional sand from ancient corals is washing up on low-lying coasts, and research has long shown that this sedimentation is more severe than climate-induced erosion,” Lomborg explains. As Tuvalu's land area increases.
Not only that; scientists have known for decades that atoll islands undergo unique changes as sea levels change, and scientists such as Charles Darwin more than a hundred years ago proposed that even if sea levels change, reef-based Islands also grow upward toward the light. In 2010, multiple studies reported that Tuvalu and other islands were actually growing in size. Eight of Tuvalu's nine coral atolls have expanded, as have 75 percent of the country's smaller islands.
It's heartening that a major news publication like this new york post Publish the work of Lomborg and other climate realists, who bravely insist on relying on existing real-world data in the face of a barrage of stories and reports citing dire climate model scenarios. There is no doubt that postal You'll get some hate mail, but that's the sign of a good news organization that is committed to serving the interests of its readers wherever they are, following the facts and publishing the truth, no matter how mundane, even on controversial topics. rather than hyperbole and exaggeration.
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