Video: Those 11,000 “Scientists” Warning About an Impending “Climate Emergency” Are Just Random People,” investigation Reveals
'This was a total managed lie. There was no study'
By Ethan Huff
DCDirtyLaundry.com
The headline was a real attention-grabber. It said "More than 11,000 scientists declare 'climate emergency.'"
That, at least, was Voice of America's title.
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The article said "more than 11,000 scientists are warning that the Earth, in their words, 'clearly and unequivocally faces a climate emergency.'" It's the subject over which teen activist Greta Thunberg recently has been expressing outrage.
But, the report called "World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency," wasn't a study. And they weren't all scientists.
Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh highlighted the story Monday.
"Our buddies over at Power Line discovered something. Last week (I don’t know if you saw it, there was a story, and it was big out there) 'that 11,000 scientists had issued a report contending that the Earth faces a 'climate emergency.' NBC News … described a 'study' produced by an 'international consortium of more than 11,000 scientists,''" he wrote.
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He cited headlines by NBC, CNN, the London Guardian, Al-Jazeera and others.
"'There was no study, there was just a press release," he said. "And it wasn’t 11,000 scientists, it was 11,000 random people who put their names on a web page. This was a total managed lie. There was no study. There were no scientists."
He explained: "People went on a Web page and asked others reading it to put their signature on it. That was then presented as a scientific paper. It’s kind of like these two skeletons that put together Center for Science in the Public Interest that banned coconut oil, MSG. They weren’t scientists. They were just a couple people that didn’t want you to eat what you wanted so they created an icon, got a fax machine, got the media going. It was all made-up stuff."
John Hinderaker at the Powerline Blog wrote: "11,000 scientists? Just kidding."
"The world's news media reported breathlessly that 11,000 scientists had issued a report contending that the Earth faces a 'climate emergency.' NBC News, to cite just one example, described a 'study' produced by an 'international consortium of more than 11,000 scientists.'"
The blog posted a screen shot of headlines by NBC, CNN and others.
"Actually, there was no study, there was just a press release. And it wasn't 11,000 scientists, it was 11,000 random people who put their names on a web page. But today's reporters are so biased and so incompetent that when it comes to 'climate change,' they will swallow anything," Powerline reported.
It posted a video explaining the problem: