I had to comment on a typical example of media obfuscation and manipulation that appeared on the TV3 news tonight. It’s a great example of how the media, as well as many other groups, continually link everything to climate change, and the inference that it’s our fault, with the aim on telling the lie so often that we accept it without question.
The lovely Samantha Hayes, no doubt swayed by the fact that her trip was with a Greenpeace mission, covered a story about the decline of the Cook Islands’ coral …

One of the biggest “wins” for the alarmists is the wider public acceptance of the UN’s (via the IPCC) pronouncements of the validity of anthropogenic (human caused) global warming. A great example is my own barber, who always strikes me as a well read bloke, who told me that “it was hard to believe that such an esteemed body of experts” couldn’t possibly be wrong.
The other prong of attack of the alarmists is to denigrate any scientists who don’t toe the warming line. They call them deniers and accuse them …

One thing that strikes me as being very odd is the way that so many people cite the “many” scientists who support human induced climate change as being reason enough to accept  it as absolute truth.  Apart from the fact that the supposed universal scientific agreement on the subject simply doesn’t exist, this acceptance by the public is completely at odds with the general distrust the public has for a lot of modern science.
An example is genetic engineering.  There has never been any identified risk with any commercially developed genetically …