Michael Shellenberger: ‘CNN must now retract its garbage article & apologize for its central role in giving millions of children climate anxiety’ – ‘Al Gore should apologize for lying to billions of people about the Maldives’
By Marc Morano
July 1, 2024
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1806341713826378035.htmlMichael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
Jun 27 • 16 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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Over the last two decades, scientists and the media published thousands of articles claiming that climate change would destroy small atoll islands due to sea level rise.
And the climate change was our fault. “You’re making this island disappear,” claimed @CNN
It was all a big lie. Scientists have known since 2018 that, “Over the past decades, atoll islands exhibited no widespread sign of physical destabilization in the face of sea-level rise.”
And now, six years after scientists published that study, which found that 89% of the islands were stable or had increased in size, the New York Times has finally informed its readers of this “surprising climate find.”
In truth, it’s only “surprising” to readers of New York Times, CNN, and the rest of the mainstream news media because they brainwashed their readers into believing that the islands were disappearing, causing an epidemic of adolescent climate anxiety culminating in the toxic disinformation of @GretaThunberg
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