Warm Words and Cold Lies
In August 2006 The Institute of Public Policy Research published a document entitled “Warm Words, How are we telling the climate change story and can we tell it better”.
Below are a couple of extracts from this document, all of the italics are direct quotes, the bold type emphasis is mine..
“Many of the existing approaches to climate change communications clearly seem unproductive. And it is not enough to produce yet more messages, rational argument and top-down persuasion, aimed at convincing people of the reality of climate change and urging them them to act. Instead, we need to work in a more shrewd and contemporary way, using subtle techniques of engagement.”
“To help address the chaotic nature of the climate change discourse in the UK today, interested agencies now need to treat the argument as having been won, at least for popular communications. This means simply behaving as if climate change exists and is real, and that individual actions are effective. The ‘facts’ need to be treated as so taken-for-granted that they need not be spoken.
What they are actually saying is that only the views of proponents of the climate change debate are to be given to the public and the large body of scientific opinion that argue the contrary is to be ignored.
To put it bluntly they are lying to us
If the planet is supposed to be warming up, why is it that the temperature in Greenland is actually falling? It has barely changed since first measured in 1780’s and the ice sheet is actually expanding.
The hole in the ozone layer is said by some to be shrinking and the sea shows no sign of rising significantly?