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“Governments Should Act Now to Curb Climate Disinformation” demands a letter backed by Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which has close ties to the British government, along with over 50 other organizations.
The open letter calling for ending free speech to save the planet from global warming accuses social media, broadcast and publishing companies of being “enablers to planetary destruction” for allowing dissenting views and demands that governments step in and crack down.
The groups call on “governments worldwide to take immediate and decisive action” and urge that “those responsible must be held accountable.” Or free speech will destroy the planet.
Signatories to the censorship call also include the Union of Concerned Scientists, which would like to ban scientific debate, Avaaz, the radical Kairos Fellowship and Reporters Without Borders which started out protecting freedom of information, but now suppresses it.
While green censorship is not a new phenomenon, the open letter includes the Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) coalition demands that governments and companies adopt its “universal definition” of climate disinformation and misinformation as encompassing not only those who reject the idea that the world is getting hotter because of human activity, but everyone who dissents from the details of the UN IPCC ‘consensus’ and its policies.
Either you’re 100% in agreement with the green movement or you’re a threat to the planet.
The proposed green censorship policy would ban any alternative interpretations of climate figures which is vital to scientific discourse. It would also outlaw any criticism of green policies.
CAAD links to a site that defines ‘climate delay’ as ‘climate denial’ (and therefore ‘climate disinformation’) and so any global warming proposal that falls short of the radical leftist ‘consensus’ agenda is really a form of misinformation that must be censored to save the planet.
Even proposals “put forward in good faith” that “contain partial truths” are “dangerous!” and must be stopped. Ideas such as “individualism” and “technological optimism” must be suppressed or the planet will be destroyed. Warnings about the pollution levels in China, the loss of jobs or higher fuel prices may not be allowed to “pollute” the discourse any longer..
The new green censorship push isn’t just about silencing broader dissent, but any dissent.
Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg who accept global warming, but disagree about the scope of it and the best remedies, are a target, so are elected officials, writers and activists who disagree with making unilateral cuts while giving China a pass, and those who warn about the impact of green taxes and price hikes on the public. What began as a proposal to censor those who question global warming has become a demand to censor anyone who asks any questions at all.
While some might question the impact of the green censorship push, Google has already bowed to initial demands from the Conscious Advertising Network and began demonetizing videos.
CAN, one of the members of CAAD, claims that it supports “freedom of speech, diversity of opinion, and human rights.” CAN is actually a censorship network whose members include the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Omnicom, one of the four largest ad agencies in the world, along with the Islamist TellMama group and numerous other ad agencies and leftist activist groups.
A follow-up letter by Check My Ads, a CAAD member organization, to Google demanded that it eliminate advertising for FOX News, Town Hall, Epoch Times and others from its ad exchanges. The targets of the green censorship included scientists like Lomborg and Steven Koonin, the former Under Secretary for Science in the Department of Energy in the Obama administration, along with thinkers like Jordan Peterson, journalists like Katie Pavlich and the popular PragerU series.
The materials that the CAAD members described as “climate disinformation” in need of censoring were not just direct challenges to global warming dogma, but even publicly stating the obvious fact that the Texas wildfires were not caused by global warming.
The Texas wildfires were caused by downed power lines. But CAAD would like Google, Amazon and most advertisers to ban anyone who rejects the false claim that they were caused by global warming. CAAD claims that critics of global warming claims are spreading “disinformation”, but the disinformation alliance is the one not only spreading, but mandating disinformation.
The most troubling CAAD member may be the Center for Countering Digital Hate which has close ties to the Labour Party and the extremist Starmer government in the UK..
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was the only world leader to show up to the failed UN COP29 conference in Azerbaijan, where he argued that “there is no national security without climate security”. The implications of tying global warming to national security is that it allows extreme measures of the kind that the Starmer regime already used to violently suppress protests against Islamic terrorists and justifies censorship in the name of national security.
The climate disinformation censorship push defines nearly any dissent as a dangerous threat. It defines its side of the argument as a scientific consensus and claims that any deviation from that consensus will kill billions of people. Survival requires a totalitarian worldwide censorship machine of unprecedented scope to end debate and force everyone to submit to their regime.
Governments have to eliminate opposition or, as the open letter describes it, “take concrete steps to ensure information integrity, paving the way for meaningful climate action.” and “the spread of disinformation continues to undermine and delay our collective ability to act.” Any dissent creates delays on government action and undermines the collective.
The familiar totalitarian rationale used by every dictatorship has now gone ‘green’.
Is green censorship really about the planet? Some of the same organizations involved in green censorship, including the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Conscious Advertising Network have pursued censorship for other leftist causes. Environmentalism is only one of a revolving suite of pretexts for silencing the opposition through corporate and political pressure.
Green censorship is really red. Its purpose is to erase conservatives, moderates and any disagreement from the marketplace of public opinion by declaring that dissent is a crisis. The crisis shifts but its ultimate aim, the end of any challenges to leftist power, never does.
Green anti-science
So what do they want to censor these Granola Bar Munchers/Tree Huggers what is Greenpeace and the WWF afraid that this whole Global Warming/Climate Change will be exposed and the Scam it really is?
That’s the beauty of a still free people who were able to put Trump
back in power – with a resounding No! to the communist-globalist
other side.
The open letter to the world’s governments from commie green
groups looking to stifle free speech under the guise of “disinformation”
would work like a charm – under a government run by a Marxist like
Kamala Harris. It will not work under a government run by President
Trump.
But we now know that their side is relentless and will never stop in
their quest to tyrannize others. And that the Evil One is known to
shapeshift. If the tactic of an open letter on behalf of climate
change to clamp down on free speech is ineffective – they’ll use
some other tactic like hate speech or whatever to do so.
“the failed UN COP29 conference in Azerbaijan,”
If they had held it somewhere nice then the elites would have flown their private jets and limousines to attend.
The founder of Greenpeace has declared the climate agenda nothing more than hypocrisy and hysteria.
Exactly right: it is only ONE PART of the attempt at totalitarianism! As Jordan Peterson says, it is the tower of babel, as they change the language and supress speech. Unfortunately, people cave into fear and want desperately, too desperately, to follow the crowd. I was very ill from Jan – Aug 2020. Bedridden from trying a new “medicine” that was alleged to cure migraine, i was instead left nearly helpless. When I finally regained my normal, critical-thinking skills, I was absolutely APPALLED at the world I awoke to. “What HAPPENED to The Land of the Free & Home of the Brave?!” I remember thinking. I delved in, and as I recovered, read the scientific papers from formerly esteemed scientists and doctors.
This is IT, imho. Our guy was elected, but the battle is just heating up.
Stay strong, because THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.
Great article, Mr. Greenfield!
So they want to prevent us from even mentioning the massive pollution in China? Lower our standard of living unilaterally but leave China alone? Sounds like they are bought and paid for by the ChiComs.
A few random points
• Science isn’t a matter of consensus
• Being expert in a discipline doesn’t make one expert in all
• The scientific methods were in fact started in monasteries
• When I was in school I didn’t care about my grades. Therefore on the two occasions of my classmates cheating (in algebra class and in basic science class) I did not join in. Those who did graduated with higher GPAs than I, and I don’t give a damn all these decades later what they think. I suspect that MOST all of the Chicken Little “Experts” have °massaged their data° to burnish their careers.
• I suspect Honest Experts split 33/33/33 on Climate Change:
• • NO
• • YES, but it isn’t really man-made
• • YES, and it is the result of man and industry
Not really. The Lefties claim it’s 0/3/97.
In the meantime, thousands of scientists have pointed out the false data and impossible “science” behind the Global Warming theory. And the fact that anyone who questions the narrative is destroyed, while anyone promoting the narrative will be financed.
Set aside the perverse incentives and the personal risk, it’s hard to believe any scientist would believe in “Global Warming.” And that includes ‘natural’ Global Warming.
That’s because CO2 has no effect on global, regional, or local temperatures.
Which is kind of important to the “theory.”
In furtherance of their goals, those climate freaks would also have to deem free and fair elections a threat to their agenda and therefore must be curtailed to prevent people from voting against their agenda.
My suggestion is an extrapolation of their stated climate change goals. In other words, accede to their demands and it won’t end there. Give them an inch and next they’ll want a mile.
That is why Germany is taking steps to outlaw any real opposition parties. Other countries will probably follow suit.
Right. It’s why appeasing the left only serves to embolden them. They won’t be satisfied until they have us all by the short & curlies and even that won’t be enough for them.
The alarmists bullhorn is no longer listened to as countless of their “scientific, chicken little “the sky is falling” predictions have been WRONG.
The only hope remaining for them to have control is under the guise of censoring “misinformation”. Apparently, they’ve yet to reflect on America’s overwhelming vote in direct opposition to such centralized power in the hands of those for whom lying remains a stalwart in their rabbit-hat of tricks.
They wear no clothes…and we know that the real censoring of information has been and continues being done by them. We seek a multitude of alternative avenues for the dissemination of real scientific climate studies and it is our desire for the truth that truly terrifies them.
Truth, like cream rises to the top! The worldwide, globalist Covid venture of lies and deception is now a tune that has and will continue collapsing under the truth..and the climate change boondoggle is in the process of doing the same.
Just a standard tactic the left uses every day. Remember, these autocrats are all graduates of the George Orwell School of Political Expediency. Whatever it takes to implement their totalitarian agenda, they will trample all over the Constitution if they have to, and do it with cold indifference.
Block them all, they have no care about the people that are struggling.
Government-funded NGO’s calling for more government is just fascism
Try telling that to the libs who think government control is the best thing since sliced bread. Government is their God.
Born in 1950, we understood propaganda and how it was presented as “truth” every day. Communist Russia, Nazi Germany and Communist China all practiced it ALL the time. Younger Americans didn’t learn this like we did. Probably our government schools. Today younger folk fall for almost anything put out by the media (AKA official government sources). After Vietnam my generation learned that our own government had moved into this arena as well.
I remember when the great Ansel Adams quit the Sierra Club after many years. His reason was that he had come to see environmentalism as a holy war, and in his opinion no one wins a holy war. How true his assessment has proven to be. Environmentalism has truely become a theology whose detractors are heritics. Their “greenhouse gases” are trace elements and nothing more, but they address this by dismissing it. This is not about altruistic duty, responsibility, or even scientific integrety. It’s about control through fear, and IMO about ultimately establishing a one-world government. Save the planet? No, it’s RULE the planet.
I remember the good old days. “In These Times” once, ran a story about an environmentalists type fellow. He was a rather odd fellow. He live, in one those Yankee states like Wisconsin, or somewhere, and, the best part, he lived in bus and raised pigs. Somebody probably cleaned him up, and maybe now he’s a stakeholder at international concern? A true prodigal son story without redemption.
to remind great green prophets in order to put some reference points: daniel cohen bendit (educated by a trotzkist father) one of the leaders of the 68 students “revolution” chased from france,, established in germany where he one of the founders of the greens. their main realisation: dismantling of nuclear energy centrals. to pass to eolian energy and finally buying gas from the russian, or like the french freezing in winter.
al gore, unsuccessful candidate and “discovering” the climate problem. becoming the apostle of the religion and making a lot of money without any scientific base (besides the chosen scientists) .
the 3rd and most dramatic is the swedish girl that broke har “studies”, cried everywhere, and crisscrossed the world in gaz guzzling producing tons of CO2 planes. even the pope was impressed by such new saintly personality and by her secretion of tears.
of course, no serious scientist sustained the “cause”
of course, they didn’t learn history or paleontology. to find some simple facts like around 1600 Thames was frozen, and there were periods of warming unrelated to humans or their cars. even by farts of cows.
have they heard about the movement of the earth’s axis?
never mind movements. association, climatic studies are also a source of revenue. always the stupid pay.
Daniel your article is great !