Tuesday, November 27, 2018

ANOTHER CLARION CALL FOR BIPARTISAN CLIMATE POLICY

SALON 

Science is fake! Right-wing media defaults to conspiracy theory to debunk climate report

There really is a conspiracy to deceive the public about climate change — but it’s not coming from the left

Donald Trump's administration used the Thanksgiving holiday to release the fourth National Climate Assessment report, a periodic government report generated by government agencies in response to federal guidelines established in 1990. Trump had no legal power to stop the report from being released but, in an obvious effort to hide its dire predictions, published it on Black Friday, hoping it would go unnoticed. The strategy may have backfired, however, as there wasn't much other headline news to compete with the report, meaning it likely got more coverage than news stories about climate change usually receive. (Sadly, I can assure you such things are ratings kryptonite.)