Guardian is Eight Times More Climate Alarmist Than Other Newspapers – and It’s Getting Everyone Down, Study Finds
One of the most striking things about the climate wars is the preoccupation that the warriors in the seemingly dominant side have with ‘communication’. The green agenda has no doubt won over governments and the broader political establishment, but it is the public’s commitment that is required. All the promises of the ‘green economy’ are for nought when every household knows it is poorer and is facing higher prices. Climate warriors, on the wrong side of a massive democratic deficit, attempt to close the gap by rebalancing the equation: comparing the costs of ‘action’ against the costs of ‘inaction’. ‘What price saving the planet?’ they ask, rhetorically. But a growing number of researchers from within the green camp have asked whether this alarmism is really any more effective as a way of gaining consent for the agenda.
In one such study recently, ‘Exploring catastrophic language use in climate journalism: A corpus-based study of articles published by the Guardian‘ authors Declan Lloyd and Emil Hazelhurst suggest that alarmism is not helping anyone to save the planet. “Well-intended language choices by journalists and news providers,” explain the pair, may be contributing to “post-traumatic stress, depression or a sense of helplessness in the face of global environmental challenges.” No shit, professor Sherlock! So their study addresses “a lack of systematic research into the specific language choices employed in UK climate reporting”, by comparing Guardian climate articles to a broader body of work. And, to zero surprise whatsoever, they determine that “catastrophic language” appears more than eight times more often in Guardian articles than in average news media.
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And the same approach was used in the Great Convid Scam.
Not to mention diversity which is so very good for us.
Remarkable isn’t it, how many normies have ‘become’ obedient, ‘go along to get along,’ drones? Seriously, I’m thinking that our Great British forefathers – and mothers – would be ashamed.
So it is getting Guardian readers down – both of them?
When I think of the Guardian I think of my younger brother and his wife. And when I think of my brother and his wife I think about a leftist ideology that’s absolutely offs its face – smug condescending smiles framing eyes with an unmistakable tilt of the unhinged. It’s a religion for the managerial class. A religion whos bible is the Guardian. The readers of this bible are just too ‘intelligent” to consider they’ve been indoctrinated into the most powerful cult since feminism. Because, you know, religion is for stupid people.
Yes, agreed. “When I think of the Grauniad…” And, I think of my youngest daughter and her husband. Imo, soo strange. Both employed and well paid Stem graduates yet somehow in their life when not-at-work, uncoupled and adrift from the world of: critical thinking, hypothesis, experiment, research, data, analysis, rigour, etc., etc.
It’s no comfort that they are not alone and these drones remind me so much of the early ‘Conformity experiments’ of behaviourists like Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo. In précis…
https://achology.com/psychology/social-conformity-insights-from-the-asch-conformity-experiment/
My Sister in Law insisted that my Hydrangea did not flower because “the weather is all messed up”. ——You make silly comments like this when you don’t have all the facts. I had pruned the Hydrangea back in the Spring and had taken all the buds off (deliberately)
So what a lot of people do is see unverified and ideologically aligned reporting in places like the Guardian and their world view is so distorted that they jump to kinds of silly conclusions because they think they are hearing Investigative Journalism, when infact they are hearing Journalism in support of a Political Agenda.
This is very true – I watched a video in which a fisheries ‘expert’ opined that the populations of large fish were falling all over the world ‘mainly because the water was getting too warm for them’ – and then added ‘but also because of overfishing..’!
When I think of the guardian, I think of the countless school teacher staff rooms and university common rooms where the guardian appears to be provided free of charge to the inmates and where the people entrusted with teaching the nation’s children receive their daily dose of brainwashing before passing it on the next generation. Unchallenged. Several of my ex-university friends and or their wives have done this for their entire career. Making it impossible to have a conversation with them about anything other than cricket scores.
Yep——–When I said to my Sister in law “Why do you think that all of the other plants in my garden don’t seem to be in the least bit affected by this “climate change” that you are convinced is occurring, yet the Hydrangea is”?———She kid of looked at me as if I were from Mars. ——The power of propaganda is that it gets ideas entrenched into peoples brains and those ideas are virtually impossible to remove, even with facts, evidence and reason.
Given the Grauniad’s circulation is so low it is forced to beg for funds, I cannot see hoe it’s “getting everyone down”.
What gets me down is the prospect of blackouts, economic meltdown, societal collapse and starvation brought about by the suicidal climate empathy advocated by the Guardian.
Yes, but I think there is a kind of VALVE that will stop this from happening. —–We already see a lot of U turns, about electric cars, the continued use of gas etc etc , simply because you cannot live in a fantasy land forever. Reality is a very hard enemy to defeat?
Yes, but at least we will have met the EU net zero carbon targets.
Always astonishes me that anyone reads The Guardian.
Always a good idea to keep an eye on your enemy…
They seem to be provided free of charge in teacher staff rooms.
Some people like being lied to every day to confirm their ignorance I guess. Not enough though that the evil Gates had to step in and prop it up.
“comparing the costs of action against the costs of inaction”. ——–Yes, but even if all the scaremongering was remotely true or likely, the UK cannot unilaterally save the planet. We are 1% of the alleged problem.
-But you notice that is always the wealthy western countries that are indulging in this phony planet saving. WHY? ——Because CO2 =WEALTH. The people and countries who emit the most CO2 are the wealthiest ones, those who emit the least are the poorest ones.—–What we have here is eco socialism pure and simple with Climate Change the plausible EXCUSE. —-It isn’t and never was about the bloody climate.
For the last 20+ years I have been trolling The Guardian trying to correct its ridiculous climate change nonsense.
They banned me from commenting below the line so I just do it now on their facebook page.
It is always the “liberal” media that spout this rubbish and the BBC, Independent, Reuters are all as bad as each other.
Encouragingly there are signs that there is a growing dissent against the “climate emergency” narrative as the cost of living crisis makes people realise how much this climate dogma is costing them.
A couple of years ago i was at our village shop early when the papers were being delivered. I took the different piles of the papers as a sort of straw poll. The biggest pile of tabloids was the Daily Mail, the biggest for broadsheets was the Daily Telegraph. I spoke with the shop keeper about this, he told me there are two papers he only gets to order, the Financial Times and the Guardian. There were only two copies of the Guardian
Country people have more sense?
Excellent as usual, but “reactance”?
Definitely: ‘the non-resistive component of impedance in an AC circuit, arising from the effect of inductance or capacitance or both and causing the current to be out of phase with the electromotive force causing it.
“the capacitor exhibits negligible reactance at the operating frequency’
???
After all the lies msm has spewed over the last five years, it is difficult to understand why anyone reads, watches or listens to msm.