A massive global grooming programme aimed at mostly mainstream media involving climate catastrophism and Net Zero promotion is detailed in a recently published report from the green billionaire-funded Internews’s Earth Journalism Network (EJN). The work is a shocking insight into the corruption of independent, investigative journalism. At one point the report observes “a concerning trend among journalists in some countries still seeking to ‘balance’ their climate change reporting”. The report shows clearly that the green billionaires are calling most of the shots in promoting stories of Net Zero-inspired climate collapse. It is noted that they may fund journalists “to cover stories in a particular subject area, determined by funder interests and goals”.
Over the last 20 years the tax-efficient billionaire foundations have stepped into the funding gaps left by declining circulation and advertising sales across mainstream media. It is noted by the EJN that journalists “overwhelmingly agreed” that support from external funding organisations was “essential” to enabling their climate and environmental reporting. Any journalist can apply to be a member of the EJN and the “primary benefit” is said to be access to grant funding for stories and “training opportunities”. The operation claims over 25,000 members in 200 countries.
The list of EJN funders is a long one and includes many well-known supporters of climate fear-mongering work. Included is the European Climate Foundation, heavily supported by Michael Bloomberg and Extinction Rebellion paymaster Sir Christopher Hohn. Other supporters include Tides, Gulbenkian, Oak, Packard, Climate Justice Resilience, MacArthur and Rockefeller. Helping out with taxpayer money are political and government organisations including the United Nations and the British Foreign Office.
The EJN report is said to provide a novel, truly global benchmark of the current state of climate and environmental journalism. Unhappily this would appear to be true. As we have seen in many past issues of the Daily Sceptic, very few ‘grassroots’ green operations can survive without elite billionaire funding. The same is true of media coverage. Much of the global barrage of climate catastrophe reporting would not exist without this vital outside lifeline. It is obvious that the cash handouts have a clear political agenda, namely an elite-mandated Net Zero global collectivisation made easier by the growth of supranational organisations.
The report makes the obvious point that climate and environmental journalists have long been criticised for lacking objectivity. However the “literature” is said to suggest that journalism as a whole “has been moving away from objectivity as a professional practice in the digital landscape”. Some researchers are said to have pointed to a need to think ‘beyond journalism’ and to formulate a broader definition.
It might be argued that if you are being paid to be a poodle, you are already ‘beyond journalism’. As 1984 author George Orwell once wrote: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; anything else is public relations.”
Alas, it would seem that some climate scepticism remains, despite all the best funding efforts. The scientific opinion that humans control the climate thermostat by burning hydrocarbons is disputed by some of the finest scientific minds in the world. Fudged figures, pseudoscientific weather attributions and the huge downplaying of the role of natural variations do not convince everyone. According to the EJN, this means that in many countries, media audiences are being led to believe that the causes of climate change are not clear. Certainly it might be said that the causes of climate change are unclear to believers in the scientific discovery process, such as the 2022 winner of the Nobel physics prize Dr. John Clauser. He said recently that the link between temperature and carbon dioxide was a “crock of crap”. Or the distinguished Princeton Emeritus Professor William Happer, who when asked to choose between ‘climate scam’ or ‘hoax’, said he preferred ‘scam’, but could live with ‘hoax’.
For the billionaire-funded EJN this is “highly problematic”, since widespread public understanding of the causes and impacts of climate change “is so urgently needed to support climate action on a global scale”.
Alas, again, the report seemed to find some disturbing evidence that some Comrades are not fully on board with the wishes of Big Climate Brother and the ‘settled’ science promoted by the Ministry of Truth. Citizens are reminded that at the time of the Great COVID-19 Pandemic, “media in many countries clearly aligned with government positions on vaccine mandates and lockdown orders – often under the uniting phrase of ‘we are all in this together’”. On the basis of this example, it is suggested that journalists should be less hesitant to advocate the climate message in the ‘public interest’.
Given that the newsrooms of the world are full of journalists trying to hide their manic support for cloth mask wearing, implausible computer modelling, years of social distancing and school closures, untested and novel medicines, economy-destroying lockdowns and crippling public debt, there might be some concern that another science-lite campaign could eventually lead to more grovelling public accountability, laughable scorn and diminished credibility.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Billionaires, Government and pure Evil. Zero science. All with a purpose – part of the pincer movement for a One World Govt or NWO as the criminal American empire terms it. ‘Health’ and Pharma is the other pincer. Billionaires as the world’s Lords, Earls, Dukes and Princes.
2022 winner of the Nobel physics prize Dr. John Clauser. He said recently that the link between temperature and carbon dioxide was a “crock of crap”. Or the distinguished Princeton Emeritus Professor William Happer, who when asked to choose between ‘climate scam’ or ‘hoax’, said he preferred ‘scam’, but could live with ‘hoax’.
Amen to that analysis.
I have often spoke of the “bought and paid for media” and lo and behold here we have it.
We see the total lack of any Investigative Journalism on this issue all over mainstream TV NEWS and press. Perhaps Fox News and to a lesser extent GB news do so, but I am seriously disappointed with GB news in this regard. There are a few presenters who know what they are talking about on this issue, eg Rees-Mogg, Nana Akua, Nigel Farage, but most of the time when they discuss climate and energy they have rabid climate activists in the studio (Jim Dale, Donachadh McCarthy etc) and they are given air time to spout their cherry picked eco fundamentalism as if were all ultimate truth and they run rings around presenters like Anne Diamond, Eammon Holmes etc.— Occasionally we see Andrew Montford or Ross Clark on as well but GB News need to do more to show that climate change and the energy solutions to fix this alleged crisis are not clear cut by any means, infact the opposite is true. The climate change solutions are actually worse for us all than the alleged climate change. They remove affordable reliable energy and replace it with unaffordable unreliable energy all based on modelling of the climate presented to the public as “science”. ——–Modelling isn’t science and it isn’t evidence of anything. —-SCAM
There used to be four fundamental forces of nature – gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear, but in this new age we must acknowledge that the strongest of them all is money. It has the ability to subvert any branch of physics and logic.
Money is not a fundamental force. Electricity and magnetism are observable effects of the electromagnetic force. Neither of them are the fundamental force.
Money is not evil but can be used as a means to influence political power to the detriment of humanity. The fifth fundamental force of nature is therefore not Money, but more likely to be Evil.
OFF-T UK Column did a good show yesterday. Around 15 minutes in they discuss the influence of the City Of London through what is called the ‘Remembrancer’ where legislation is examined. The current Remembrancer is Paul Double.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-10th-june-2024
UK Column still may have a few good things, but I have given up on them for good now, as they do not even bother to hide their overall anti semitism, resulting in the disappearance of their best contributor David Scott. At first I was impressed and included them in our wills, but already 2 years ago rushed to do a codicil removing them.
I wondered what happened to David Scott, he just disappeared. Their coverage on Gaza seems to be one sided. Best to be neutral so as to criticise both sides when necessary. I am not going to blindly trust the numbers coming from Hamas, at the same time, people should be aware of how easy Oct the 7th was in the most fortified place on earth. A convenient attack maybe.
David Scott, who happened to be in Israel at the time, gave a very measured account on the 11 October, seemingly taking by surprise both Gerrish and Robinson, in contrast to Beeley on 9 October exulting on the attack. That was the last of him though. Patrick Heningsen has also gone, and I read somewhere that also was because of the employment of Beeley
Yes I remember when he gave his account, he had trouble controlling his emotions, but that was understandable.