Norbert Häring, a columnist at the German economic daily Handelsblatt and a member of the “ECB Shadow Council” (a sort of ECB-watcher group of European economists), has exposed a center of Goebbels-like guidelines for journalists to push climate hoax propaganda. The guidelines instruct “climate journalists” to avoid discussing topics with critics, instead to use mass-psychology methods to avoid the issue, and brainwash the population.
Härings focusses on two entities: the German-based “Netzwerk Klimajournalismus Deutschland” (NKD, German Network of Climate Journalism) and the international, London-based World Weather Attribution (WWA). The NKD has issued a “Charter” signed by 302 German journalists, a lot of them from state-owned media; the WWA has issued a “Guide for Journalists: Reporting Extreme Weather and Climate Change.” Both make recommendations for how to “dramatize” weather reports in order to brainwash the population.
“This is no longer journalism, but propaganda,” is Häring’s conclusion.
From the “Charter,” Häring quotes what the task of climate journalists is supposed to be:
“to clarify the extent of the crisis, always, not just tied to current events and across departmental boundaries;
“to be guided by the ‘state of the science,’ avoiding ‘false balance,’ i.e., allowing minority positions to prevail;
“acknowledge as fact that colonialism and growth paradigm are causes of the climate crisis,
“to predict an ‘irreversible catastrophe’ if those responsible do not act decisively in the next few years;
“declare the climate crisis a threat to democracy and fundamental rights;
“to take the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 and the ‘climate ruling’ of the [German] Constitutional Court of 2021 as (unquestionable) guidelines and guard rails;
“and thereby to secure the preservation of the basis of life for ‘all living beings on this planet.’”
Among the signers, at least of the two journalists joined Last Generation zombies who glued themselves onto the road pavement.
An example of how the “Charter” is implemented concretely is a recent Instagram posting by the WDR television network, which suggests that reporters replace “downplaying” terms with stronger terms, such as replacing “climate change” with “climate crisis,” and “climate skeptics” with “climate deniers.”
The NKD has also issued a “5before12 Climate Briefing” with guidelines on how to counter “climate denier” arguments. For instance, it is recommended to relentlessly use the litany “99% of scientists agree” on manmade climate change. Härings comments, “Why it is so important to keep telling people that science agrees is then explained in more detail with recourse to findings from (mass) psychology. In short, and only minimally sharpened, the argument is: Science has established that people will believe anything if they are told often enough that science has established it.”
As for the WWA, the introduction to the German edition of the manual for climate journalists was written by Ozden Terli, the weather moderator of ZDF, the second national TV network.
“Among the sponsors of WWA is the notorious Imperial College London, which provided pseudo-scientific underpinnings for radical countermeasures in the corona pandemic through extreme model projections of an allegedly expected huge number of victims,” Häring reminds.
A sample from the manual: “Every heat wave in the world is now more severe and more likely because of man-made climate change.”
Häring: “Every! Everywhere in the world! Therefore, he said, one can generally blame man-made climate change in reporting for every heat wave, even if there is no study on it yet.”
Read more at:
https://norberthaering.de/propaganda-zensur/netzwerk-klimajournalismus/ and
https://norberthaering.de/propaganda-zensur/world-weather-attribution/
