Taking Us for Fools: How a turnkey method attributes any trend to climate change
By ROGER PIELKE JR.
Excerpt: One of the most brazen — and successful — propaganda campaigns sits out in plain sight. I am referring to the concerted effort by climate advocates to create a belief that “climate change” causes bad weather and disasters, and that we can prevent those bad things from happening with climate policies.
At the center of the propaganda campaign are scientists who perform political alchemy by turning the symbols, authority, and institutions of expertise into public and policy maker (mis)understandings of climate science. These scientists all well know that “climate policy” — however construed — cannot reduce the number or intensity of extreme weather events in any meaningful or detectable way in my lifetime, or even my future grandkids’ lifetimes.
I am using the term propaganda here as a technical term, which Harold Lasswell defined almost a century ago as, “the management of collective attitudes by the manipulation of significant symbols.”
6 comments:
Unfortunately the great majority appear to be fools.
They have swallowed the climate grift as real, just as they exposed themselves to rushed out, and so not adequately tested MRNA injections during and after the COVID epidemic/hoax/panic.
A very quick read up on the climate bullshit or those so called vaccines should be enough to at least ask questions.
Mike - I agree, that's the problem, just going along with thing without checking alternative possibilities. Uninformed voters are behind many of our problems.
They are similarly uninformed about the history, methods and benefits of Britain being in the EU.
Tammly - most people are probably uninformed about the history and operations of the EU, but it may be best viewed politically - is it politically adaptable in a changing world?
+1 to this. I find apparently-sensible people's conversation is often littered with things like "...as storms get more frequent..." or "...all these wildfires show that..." or "...go and see the Great Barrier Reef while you still can...".
Any modest demur or mention of the actual facts (or even a suggestion that they might go and find the facts themselves) is met with metaphorical rolled eyes and the feeling that the word "denier" is not far off.
Whether this is true ignorance, or just shows the power of propaganda, I wouldn't like to say.
Peter - it seems to be both ignorance and the power of propaganda in that propaganda discourages people from doing something about their ignorance.
It's a weird aspect of successful propaganda, it can persuade people that propaganda is information. By implication they are not ignorant even though they have made no personal effort to inform themselves.
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