CNN Enters New Round of Climate Panic

“Sounds like the folks over at CNN are upping the ante over climate change,” Melissa Mullins writes at NewsBusters:

In addition to climate change being blamed for cute and cuddly polar bears becoming endangered (which has been debunked) and giving children nightmares, they are now trying their hand at scare tactics, specifically, frightening people into believing in climate change by focusing on a mere two degrees Celsius.

By embracing the “Two Degrees Celsius” initiative, CNN has given its reporter and recipient of an award by the American Society of News Editors for public service journalism, John Sutter, the next eight months to report on the insurmountable destruction that could occur because of these two little degrees. (Here’s where scare tactics come into play.) Sutter writes:

“If we humans warm the world more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), we greatly up the odds of climate catastrophes. Think super droughts, rising seas, mass extinctions and acidifying oceans. We don’t want to cross that mark.”

I’m not sure if this is a “new round” of climate panic, since “global warming” was introduced into the American vernacular by Al Gore and the New York Times comparing it to Kristallnacht in 1989. In other words, the media overculture has spent the last quarter century predicting a new Holocaust was right around the corner if we don’t take action. But didn’t we take decisive action back in 2008? After all, Barack Obama promised his supporters, in his usual campy melodramatic style, that his merely winning the Democrat primaries was “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal!”

And in any case, why does CNN want to simultaneously scare the bejesus out of its more gullible viewers (other than those poor souls trapped in airport departure lounges, is there any other kind of CNN viewer?) and mock those who take such warnings seriously and have started preparing for the apocalypse?

But then, as Mullins writes: “Showing that it’s for political purposes only, CNN neglected to say that the planet hasn’t warmed in over 15 years, or that the ‘science’ surrounding global-warming panic isn’t turning out to be the impending catastrophe that liberals have predicted for more than 25 years.”