Global Warming
Global Warming: who says
it best?
For my comparison of news
site, I chose Natural News and New York times, Natural News is basically news
focused on science. So, I chose two articles on global warming. So, I chose two
global warming stories from the New York times “How Scientists Cracked the
Climate Change Case” and Natural News “Global Warming “science” discovered to
be founded on glaring math error that renders thousands of news reports false”
Focusing on global warming is complicated though because a site can’t exactly
blame global warming on one democrat or republican so we aren’t able to judge
them on any political biases.
As soon as I longed on to
natural news the first story that popped up was “TERRAFORMING has begun:
“Global dimming” is a plot to EXTERMINATE humanity by terraforming the
atmosphere with SMOG pollution, killing Earth’s food crops and unleashing
ecological collapse” which worsened my already skeptical opinions of this news
site. As well as the floor to ceiling adds. As soon as I read the paper though
I was surprised. They not only had somehow twisted global warming into a
political debate but the entire paper was based on the errors of data of a few
prominent news sites. Although I thought it couldn’t be done, they basically
blamed the left wing for global warming. You can see this in a quote “They
don’t care if the facts check out. All they care about is whether President
Trump can somehow be blamed (and Al Gore can be celebrated as a god, even
though he knows nothing about real atmospheric science).” They no longer are
talking about global warming they have completely shifted to talking about how
the left-wing tweaks everything to blame trump. This confuses me though because
the demographic originally rated the news site on the extreme liberal side
which goes against everything this person is saying. Another quote “If you are
a dishonest, scientifically illiterate left-wing journalist, you report the red
line and scream about the end of human civilization caused by warming oceans.
But if you’re a normal, intelligent person, you know the blue line is actually
the best fit for these data.” They were referring to a graph but go far enough
to call these rude things because of most likely their political party. Curious
in who could have started this new site I researched the publisher and learned
his name is Mike Adams and along with his skeptical views of the sites he loves
to share his theories such as "Bill Gates and Microsoft are in the process
of developing weaponized, ethnically-targeted influenza viruses as part of a sinister
eugenics plot". And he manages to misinterpret “attempts to develop
reversible forms of male contraceptives as deliberate attempts to permanently
sterilize minorities.” Which tells us a little bit about him. So overall my
opinion of this news site is, it doesn’t seem any bit credible their obviously
politically opinionated and they use that to alter their news stories turning
them into a uncredible news site that nobody in their right mind should trust.
Continuing on the New York Times paper, dedicated
to figuring out who and what has caused climate change. The piece to me seems
well written and flows easily no obvious left-wing right-wing claims or for
that matter no mention of politics which I think should be the case for a piece
about global warming. Their facts seem straight forward “These observations
show clearly that among other things, the surface of the planet has warmed, the
upper atmosphere has cooled, the oceans are gaining an enormous amount of heat,
sea level is rising” no one’s blaming each other or any other news site. And for their conclusion “Without human
activities the planet would not have warmed over the past century.” Stating
what we know and can conclude. In my opinion a news site should be credible and
unbiased something natural news needs to show more of if they want to join the
more prominent news circle because right now their now anywhere near it.
It is really sad that there are even websites and people that try to blame global warming on one person or the other. Since we need to fix global warming, we can't spend time on blaming others. The reason that politicians don't want to change the direction the earth is going is because of the money they get from oil companies. Everyone knows this but no one does anything about it. It is really frustrating that the earth is going downhill and picking up speed but everyone is too wrapped up in greed and money to care about other people and the future. People need to understand that everything we do now, will have an effect on the future. For example, even though Claire may have seen through the article she talks about, other people may not and are influenced by it.
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