USA Today Global Warming Propaganda Shows Why the Lamestream Media is Dying

The dinosaur mainstream media (aka “lamestream” media) is dying, which is sending static statists and liberal propagandists into a panic, demanding government bailouts and subsidies for these failed institutions. But while the lamestream media is dying, alternative news sources are thriving. Rather than lobby the government to take dollars away from already overtaxed citizens and give them to failed media corporations, perhaps the lamestream media should undergo some self-assessment as to why the public has turned away from their brand of “news.”

Parroting the claims of a new “study” released by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, an alarmist propaganda group whose claims counter those of some of Yale’s own scholars, this morning’s USA Today article, “Survey: Public knowledge on climate lacking,” is seven parts alarmist propaganda, three parts condescension, and zero parts sound, objective science reporting.

According to the USA Today article, survey respondents who believe there is “a lot of disagreement among scientists” regarding global warming have answered the question “incorrectly.”

People who believe global warming is “caused by both human activity and natural changes” answered the question “incorrectly.”

People who disagree that “compared to the climate of the past million years, the last 10,000 have been unusually warm and stable” also get an “incorrect” grade, even though our present interglacial period is significantly cooler than any interglacial warm period during the past half million years.

People who answered that the sun is one of the five most significant causes of global warming answered the question “incorrectly.” (Try telling that to astrophysicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics and the Danish National Space Center, who have reported just the opposite.)

Amazingly, and eliminating any doubt about the propaganda goals of the survey, people who identified nuclear power, which emits absolutely zero carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas emissions, as one of the five most significant causes of global warming answered the question “correctly.”

People who believe “scientists’ computer models are too unreliable to predict the climate of the future” answered the question “incorrectly.”

People who believe “the Earth is actually cooling, not warming” answered the question “incorrectly.” (This again shows the overt propaganda goals of the survey. In the short-term scale of the past decade or so, global temperatures are cooling. In the long-term scale of the past 10,000 years, temperatures are cooling. Only in the mid-term scale of temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age – which lasted from 1300 AD to 1900 AD and entailed the coldest period of the past 10,000 years – are global temperatures warming.)

People who believe the melting of Arctic Ocean sea ice will cause global sea level to rise answered the question “correctly,” even though the melting of ice floating in water does not cause the water level to rise.

People who said they don’t know the causes of coral bleaching answered the question “incorrectly,” but people who said global warming is the cause of coral bleaching answered the question “correctly.” (This also shows incredible bias. Scientists are still investigating the causes of coral bleaching. Many potential culprits are possible, and there are likely many different causes, including cooling temperatures as well as warmer temperatures. Scientists acknowledge there is still much to learn. Nevertheless, “I don’t know” is “incorrect” but “global warming” is “correct.”

People who believe “having at most 2 children per family” would reduce global warming answered the question “correctly.”

Check out the madness for yourself at http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/10/climate-knowledge-lacking/1 and http://environment.yale.edu/climate/files/ClimateChangeKnowledge2010.pdf