Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog
In spite of all the one-sided "climate crisis" mantra CNN and other liberal media have been peddling for years, CNN media analyst Brian Stelter devoted a segment to fretting over whether the media has done enough to promote hysteria on the issue.
Introducing global warming alarmists David Wallace-Jones and Emily Atkin, Stelter engaged in handwringing:
Meteorologists and reporters are running out of words. They are running out of words to describe the impacts of climate change. "Unprecedented" just doesn't cut it anymore. From drought and lethal heat waves out West, the related fires that have been raging in California and in Canada, recent flooding in Detroit -- these are just a few of the deeply troubling stories that have been linked in various ways to climate change.
He added: "But how often is that context being included in reports on extreme weather events? But how much do you know -- how much do you feel you know about the climate crisis? And is there enough devoted, rigorous attention from national news outlets?"
Wallace-Wells -- who is also editor of The New Yorker -- advised that the media project more "alarmism" in response to current events:
We can't shy away from scary projections about the future or the scary facts as we're living them today. I think we also need to start thinking a little harder, be a little clearer in our story-telling, that learning to live in this new future, which will continue to get worse -- probably considerably worse from here...
He soon added:
Estimates suggest the burning of fossil fuels kills about 10 million people every year, which is dying on the scale of the Holocaust -- in fact, larger than the Holocaust -- every single year. And yet we don't see many public health stories, we don't see many moral crises stories addressed to that issue.
