The Left's Great Lie Is a Pervasive Threat to Our Culture pjmedia.com/news-and-polit… #Columns via @pjmedia_com
@PJMedia_com Canvassing the plethora of surveys and reports regarding AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming), we come across documents like the one emanating from the University of Illinois 2009, a survey claiming that 97.4% of scientists agree that mankind is responsible for global warming.
@PJMedia_com This is an impressive assessment. What we don’t know is that the Illinois researchers decided that of the 10,257 respondents, the 10,180 who demurred from the so-called consensus weren’t qualified to comment on the issue.
@PJMedia_com Of the remaining 77 scientists whose votes were counted, 75 agreed with the proposition that mankind was causing catastrophic changes in the climate. Since 75 is 97.4% of 77, “overwhelming consensus” was demonstrated once again.
@PJMedia_com The Australian bushfire coverage furnishes the most recent instance of a faux study. ABC’s misleading satellite image shows one-third of the continent burning—media mendacity at its finest, obviously intended to bolster the left’s global warming narrative.
@PJMedia_com The map actually depicts areas that heat up in direct sunlight. There is no doubt about the catastrophic extent of the fires—an area somewhat larger than the state of West Virginia—but bad as this may be, it is nowhere remotely near one-third of the continent.
@PJMedia_com This is the blueprint for syndical victory. The left will deploy an armamentarium of outright lies, dodgy statistics, and obscurantist dogma to advance its inflammatory.
@PJMedia_com Of course, when any leftist spokesman is caught in a flagrant lie, the default position is to claim that the lie tells a greater truth.
