Google News Promotes Misinformation, Falsely Links Mexican Drought Story to ‘Climate Change’
By
H. Sterling Burnett -
April 30, 2021 0
A search of Google News today for the term “climate change” turns up a story from the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais (“the country,” in English) discussing the various harms people are suffering as a result of severe drought impacting Mexico. However, nowhere in the Pais story does it claim Mexico’s drought is the result of global warming or climate change. Also, scientific data and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) strongly refute any claimed link between Mexican drought and global warming. Instead, Google is promoting scientific misinformation by making a unilateral decision to affirmatively and arbitrarily asserting linking drought to “climate change.”
The author of the El Pais article, titled “The drought that is scorching Mexico, a predictable and devastating tragedy,” writes, “The drought currently ravaging Mexico is a recurring phenomenon that leaves a trail of damage and destruction in its wake every time it strikes.”
“Mexico’s geographical location and its climate make the country extremely vulnerable to droughts and periods of high rainfall,” says El Pais, continuing, “60% of Mexico’s land mass – being historically accustomed to extreme conditions.”
https://climaterealism.com/2021/04/google-news-promotes-misinformation-falsely-links-mexican-drought-story-to-climate-change/
