Showing its fierce determination not to cede an inch in liberal advocacy to arch-rival Univision, Telemundo, the Spanish language sister television network of NBC, has announced its decision to uncritically and wholeheartedly embrace climate alarmism in its coverage of climate and environmental news.
Telemundo and NBC anchor José Díaz-Balart made the announcement on the network’s national evening newscast, telling viewers that Telemundo is ditching the term ‘climate change’ in favor of the alarmist moniker ‘climate emergency.’ The reason? He said “it’s basically about you, the citizens, perceiving the severity and the dimension of what we are doing to our own planet.”
JOSE DIAZ BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: Today is World Environment Day, a date that is increasingly more necessary, and that here at Telemundo we want to commemorate with an important announcement. From now on, we will no longer talk about climate change when referring to the crisis affecting our planet. We will talk about climate emergency, just like other large media outlets are doing, such as the British newspaper, The Guardian, or the EFE news agency in Spain. It’s basically about you, the citizens, perceiving the severity and the dimension of what we are doing to our own planet. Vanessa Hauc has more.
Evidently, whereas the earlier terms of global warming and climate change did not instill in the public sufficient fear or commitment to leftist environmental policy extremism, it is expected that the coming ‘climate emergency’ coverage will.
Telemundo’s preview of what’s to come, outlined in the full report by correspondent Vanessa Hauc, laid on the full fire and brimstone, complete with ominous music, scene after scene of natural disasters and soundbite after soundbite of hysterical climate alarmism.
“The message has to be very clear: this is an emergency, and there is no time to lose” Hauc declared, later adding that “the scientists have given us 12 years to drastically reduce the contaminating gases that are causing the warming of our planet.”
Critical views - or any skepticism whatsoever on the subject - are no longer tolerated at Telemundo. However, that does not mean they do not exist. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute has indicated, “the doomsday interpretation of climate change is a political doctrine. It is not a scientific finding, as Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg shows in a recent series of tweets and University of Alabama in Huntsville atmospheric scientist John Christy explains in a new paper titled “Falsifying Climate Alarm.”
As geologist Gregory Whitestone also points out in a recent Heartland Institute post, the cataclysmic UN extinction study breathlessly cited by Huac is really just “the latest example of the rampant misuse and abuse of the scientific process designed to sow fear of an impending climate apocalypse. The fear and alarm over purported man-made catastrophes are needed to frighten the population into gladly accepting harmful and economically crippling proposals such as the Green New Deal.”
Click Expand to read the entire transcript of the above-referenced report, as aired on the June 5, 2019 edition of Noticias Telemundo.
JOSE DIAZ BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: Today is World Environment Day, a date
that is increasingly more necessary, and that here at Telemundo we want to commemorate with
an important announcement. From now on, we will no longer talk about climate change when
referring to the crisis affecting our planet. We will talk about climate emergency, just like other
large media outlets are doing, such as the British newspaper, The Guardian, or the EFE news
agency in Spain. It’s basically about you, the citizens, perceiving the severity and the dimension
of what we are doing to our own planet. Vanessa Hauc has more.DIAZ-BALART: The Earth begins to present very worrying symptoms due to climate change
VANNESSA HAUC, CORRESPONDENT, TELEMUNDO: In the face of the climatic changes
JAVIER VEGA, CORRESPONDENT, TELEMUNDO: Climate change
VANESSA HAUC: Up until now it was enough to talk about climate change, but it’s been a
while since those words have fallen short, and we are many who have decided to call things by
their name. The first to take a step out ahead was the newspaper The Guardian. Its decision was
heard around the world.UNIDENTIFIED MAN: That climate change in itself is quite a kind of clinical and passive term.
It doesn’t really convey the weight of what is actually going on.HAUC: And it’s that the message has to be very clear: this is an emergency, and there is no time to lose.
GRETA THUNBERG, STUDENT, SCHOOL STRIKE FOR CLIMATE: I want you to panic. I
want you to act as if our house is on fire, because it is.HAUC: ‘The house is on fire’ said Greta Thunberg, the girl who revolutionized the world,
creating a movement of students who marching, demand radical and urgent measures for the
protection of their future.YOCA ARDITI-ROCHA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTIVE, CLEO INSTITUTE: We are on a red
alert, because the scale of the climate crisis which we are experiencing is affecting all of us on
the planet. And we know that the impacts we are experiencing are not insignificant, but rather
that they have been catastrophic.HAUC: More than one million animals and plants are on the verge of collapsing. One of every
four species is at risk of extinction, as confirmed by the UN in its latest biodiversity report.ROBERTO TROYA, WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: At the pace we are going, the loss of life on
the planet will mean that in the next 10 years 15 years these species will not be seen.HAUC: The scientists have given us 12 years to drastically reduce the contaminating gases that
are causing the warming of our planet.CHRISTINA CELI, SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: It is no longer a question
of whether we can wait. Our time is up, and the measures that we have to take with the
governments and as a population must be taken immediately.HAUC: In recent years more than one hundred million hectares of forests have been cleared.
Every year, we fill our oceans with more than ten million tons of plastic. This is Planet Earth.
That is why from now on Telemundo will use the term climate emergency, instead of climate
change.LAURA MORO, PROFESSOR, SPANISH, LITERATURE AND LATIN: Change is a soft
word. It can be a word for better or for worse. The word emergency, from its origin, has a greater
depth and a much greater dramaticism. It can be either life or death.HAUC: The message is clear. The challenges are great, and there is no time to lose. Vanessa
Hauc, Telemundo News.
