Fake News: Associated Press omits quotes from a professor who doesn’t buy into the human-caused “climate change” hoax
Sunday, October 15, 2017 by: JD Heyes
Tags: Associated Press, biased news, climate change, fake news, global warming, hoax, Hurricanes, Journalism, junk science, media, media fact watch, severity, storms, weather
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(Natural News) Like the rest of the far-Left “establishment” media, The Associated Press did a story attempting to link the series of unusually strong hurricanes this season with human-caused “climate change” and “global warming.” And like most of its establishment media colleagues pushing this garbage, the AP’s story wound up doing the same thing, primarily by omitting quotes from a University of Colorado professor and expert who didn’t echo the lie.
As reported by The Daily Caller, the AP’s angle on the story was that the severe storms 1) are caused by “climate change” that is tied to human activity; and 2) that is leading to storms that cause more damage and impose higher costs on communities and the country in general.
For the story, which can be seen here, the AP reporter, Seth Borenstein, only quoted one expert — Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University — and though he asked Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado a number of questions, none of his answers were included in the story’s published version.
Here’s the premise of Borenstein’s story:
[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] climate scientist Adam Smith said 2017 is shaping up to be an unprecedented year. It is likely to tie or break the record for billion-dollar weather disasters that was set in 2005, the year of Hurricane Katrina and other deadly storms.
NOAA hasn’t calculated the costs from hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, but an outside disaster risk company estimates the U.S. damage from the three hurricanes to be around $150 billion. The remaining disasters so far t
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