CNN is whipping out an exhausted climate doom mongering tactic: It’s the end of the world, but we won’t see it for a number of years!
Yeah, because Americans haven’t heard that one before right?
CNN climate and weather senior reporter Andrew Freedman harped on the idea that “[g]lobal temperatures are forecast to reach record or near-record levels during the next five years, setting the stage for more deadly extreme weather” due to global warming. Basing his climate propaganda on new crystal ball predictions by the World Meteorological Organization and the UK Met Office, Friedman was adamant that “[m]ore than 1.5 degrees of global warming increases the risks of more severe impacts, including triggering tipping points in the climate system. Melting sea ice and glaciers could soon reach a point of no return, with dramatic implications for sea level rise.”
Or it's quite possible CNN will find no point to return when this prediction fails to pan out, as so many doom-mongering world-boiling reports have failed to come true since the 1990s.
It’s pretty humorous for CNN to try to drum up fears about melting glaciers again. This is the same eco-obsessed outlet that had egg on its face when it reported in 2020 that the Glacier National Park was removing signs predicting its glaciers would be gone that year due to global warming. CNN reported then that [i]n 2017, the park was told by the agency [U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)] that the complete melting off of the glaciers was no longer expected to take place so quickly due to changes in the forecast model.” Who knew forecasts could change!
Apparently, CNN hadn’t learned from this and is yet latching on to more sky-is-falling brouhaha about melting glaciers.
But Freedman proceeded to instigate more climate scare porn, “Warming in the Arctic is expected to continue to dramatically outpace the rest of the world, with warming of more than 3.5 times the global average during the polar winter, Wednesday’s report states.”
Of course, Freedman left out the fact that the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) in the Southern Hemisphere “has shown signs of record-breaking growth after decades of contributing to global sea-level rise,” as the New York Post just reported May 5. In fact, the Post noted based on another study that “between 2021 and 2023, the AIS gained mass at a rate of 108 gigatons per year — a remarkable reversal from the rapid loss seen in previous years.”
Any explanation for that phenomenon? Well, readers wouldn’t know because Freedman didn’t address it at all.
But Freedman did take time to mourn over the allegedly Paris Climate Agreement, which President Donald Trump withdrew from at the beginning of his second term:
Global warming of 1.5 degrees would take the world one step further toward breaching the stretch goal of the Paris climate agreement, which many nations — particularly low-lying small island states — view as essential to their survival. The agreement calls for limiting warming to well below the 2-degree level over the long-term, though a single year at that mark would not break the pact’s goal.
But as climate expert and Hoover Institution Visiting Fellow Bjorn Lomborg pointed out in February 2021,“[E]verybody sort of congregates around Paris as if this was the solution to climate change.” But, as Lomborg noted, “the U.N. organizers of the Paris Climate Agreement themselves point out that this will do less than one percent of what politicians actually are promising.” Lomborg assessed that “If everyone did everything they promised at Paris, the net impact would be to reduce temperatures by the end of the century by an immeasurable 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit.”
Later that year, Lomborg also noted that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that if “we do nothing” by the 2070s, “the net impact” will only be the equivalent of the world population losing “0.2 and 2 percent of their income.” Lomborg added: “[B]y then, of course, we’ll be 363 percent as rich as what we are today. That’s the UN’s own estimate. So, instead of being 363 percent as rich, we’ll only be 356 percent as rich. That’s not an existential crisis.”
But what more can we expect from the eco-obsessed fanatics at CNN? This is virtually their modus operandi.
