Friday, July 11, 2008

Joseph Goebbels would be proud

Many times I shake my head and wonder why it is that the sheeple are so caught up in all of the phony climate change hype. I mean, anyone with half a brain who's done half an hour's research into the subject knows the score: 2,000 hysterical scientists and Al Gorebells vs. 32,000 scientists (and common sense). But when you have so-called reputable news outlets like Agence France-Presse printing crap like this, people without the time and inclination to explore further can be easily misled.

The dangerous rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may be troubling scientists and world leaders but it could prove to be a boon for plants, German researchers said Tuesday.
Let's parse this together, shall we?

"The dangerous rise" isn't meant to inform, or even to evoke an understanding of previously-presented information. Those word are designed to propagandize. Period.

"troubling scientists and world leaders" is misinformation at its finest. The aforementioned scorecard shows scientists on board with climate change hysteria outnumbered by "doubters" by a 16-to-1 ratio. "world leaders"? Outside of a few Western nations looking for a way to leverage the hysteria into increased taxes (and as a way to damage the USA), there are none. And, no, Al Gorebells doesn't count! He's simply an availability entrepreneur looking to get rich(er) by selling carbon credit schemes.

So, even though the gist of the article is positive news (an increase in carbon dioxide is good for plant growth, a real "no shit?" notion to anyone who understands the concept of plants "breathing" carbon dioxide), the writer just had to get their propaganda into the story, and right there in the first sentence. His editors apparently saw nothing wrong with that, even though "news" stories should, by the rules of "fairness", never contain knee-jerk phrases of that sort. AFP isn't censuring the writer in any way, so they obviously see nothing wrong with it.

As long as the propaganda machine is humming along unobstructed by reason, the sheeple won't question. There could be 1 million scientists screaming from the rooftops that global warming is a con - it wouldn't matter. The sheeple will follow the information they get most often, and these days, that information is pro-Gorebells.

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