“Where carbon emissions are skyrocketing: All 50 states ranked”. With a headline like that, it must be that emissions are skyrocketing in all states! Actually, they are declining – by quite a bit – in almost all states! And that’s based on the numbers in the story!
Rather than stick with facts, logic and reasoned arguments, the media has gone full yellow journalism, using exaggeration and hyperbole to sell eyeballs to advertisers. They’ve dived so far into nonsense territory as to render their climate reporting pointless, resulting in their message being tuned out.
This report is a fine example of yellow journalism, leaving out context and crudely attempting to create a negative spin on everything. Idiocy on steroids.
Reminder – a public opinion poll is a metric measuring the success or failure of a propaganda campaign, especially when the public is asked to have views on things they may know little about.
By midday Monday, fewer than 1,000 flights were delayed in the U.S. Earlier in the weekend, airlines had canceled hundreds of flights while more than 10,000 were delayed. Source: U.S. flight disruptions finally ease as the holiday weekend winds down They spent the past two weeks telling us that airline travel was in total chaos and the 4th of July weekend would be a total meltdown. it was not. They then began lumping “delayed” flights into with the “canceled” numbers…