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Most Canadians are skeptics, and CBC accidentally says so, then “edits” story
Oops! CBC (the Canadian version of the BBC and ABC) have been caught out editing a story to make it more politically correct. CBC’s political bias is accidentally on display. The original message revealed a sacred truth that must not be spoken. How would most Canadians feel about being forced to pay money to change the weather if they knew most other Canadians also thought it was a waste of billions? As far as I can tell, the updated version was a complete rewrite of the first half of the article. There appear to be a lot of changes.
The unsurprising news is that 56% of Canadians are skeptics – which is very similar to all other surveys which show that 62% of Brits are 62% skeptical. As are 54% of Australians. Fully third of the US are so skeptical they think it’s a total hoax.
The survey:
Climate change: Majority of Canadians don’t believe it’s caused by humans
But thou mayst never admit that skeptics are the majority lest the masses awaken. Groupthink is so influential! So the headline was rapidly changed to an ambiguous muddy wording:
Updated: Canadians divided over human role in climate change, study suggests
Those results:
Click to enlarge.
The hidden topic the public broadcasters don’t want to discuss
Everything hinges on the word “mostly” — is the climate mostly human driven and so we have to take action, or is the climate driven mostly by something else, and our action is mostly pointless? This is key to the billion dollar policy debate. What matters here is not the binary belief or disbelief in the entire spectrum known as climate change. That’s a strawman. But the BBC, CBC and ABC appear to want to keep the debate at this pointless level. As far as national action goes we need to talk about how much humans affect the climate, and whether cutting emissions is worth the pain.
The original headline was as accurate as most headlines are
It didn’t need any change to maintain normal headline standards, but it could be improved. The headline could have been changed to make it more accurate without hiding that most Canadians don’t agree with the 97% consensus of climate scientists*. Here are three minor changes that the CBC didn’t choose but would have solved any ambiguity:
Climate change: Majority of Canadians don’t believe humans are main cause
more:
Most Canadians are skeptics, and CBC accidentally says so, then “edits” story « JoNova
Hello Birdy: CBC quickly changed that headline egads ... the truth ...
Cool: Majority Of Canadians Are Climate Sceptics | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
This is so far beyond common sense and science any more, it's outright obvious manipulation from a state broadcaster eagerly suckling our teat. kill this fukker once and for all.
Most Canadians are skeptics, and CBC accidentally says so, then “edits” story
Oops! CBC (the Canadian version of the BBC and ABC) have been caught out editing a story to make it more politically correct. CBC’s political bias is accidentally on display. The original message revealed a sacred truth that must not be spoken. How would most Canadians feel about being forced to pay money to change the weather if they knew most other Canadians also thought it was a waste of billions? As far as I can tell, the updated version was a complete rewrite of the first half of the article. There appear to be a lot of changes.
The unsurprising news is that 56% of Canadians are skeptics – which is very similar to all other surveys which show that 62% of Brits are 62% skeptical. As are 54% of Australians. Fully third of the US are so skeptical they think it’s a total hoax.
The survey:
Is Earth getting warmer mostly because of human activities? 56% say NO.
Amazingly 39% of Canadians said the next question that they don’t think humans are even partially responsible.Earth is getting warmer partly or mostly because of human activities. 39% say NO.
So CBC initially wrote a headline which said this:
Climate change: Majority of Canadians don’t believe it’s caused by humans
But thou mayst never admit that skeptics are the majority lest the masses awaken. Groupthink is so influential! So the headline was rapidly changed to an ambiguous muddy wording:
Updated: Canadians divided over human role in climate change, study suggests
Those results:
Click to enlarge.The hidden topic the public broadcasters don’t want to discuss
Everything hinges on the word “mostly” — is the climate mostly human driven and so we have to take action, or is the climate driven mostly by something else, and our action is mostly pointless? This is key to the billion dollar policy debate. What matters here is not the binary belief or disbelief in the entire spectrum known as climate change. That’s a strawman. But the BBC, CBC and ABC appear to want to keep the debate at this pointless level. As far as national action goes we need to talk about how much humans affect the climate, and whether cutting emissions is worth the pain.
The original headline was as accurate as most headlines are
It didn’t need any change to maintain normal headline standards, but it could be improved. The headline could have been changed to make it more accurate without hiding that most Canadians don’t agree with the 97% consensus of climate scientists*. Here are three minor changes that the CBC didn’t choose but would have solved any ambiguity:
Climate change: Majority of Canadians don’t believe humans control it
Climate change: Majority of Canadians think natural forces control it
Climate change: Majority of Canadians don’t believe humans are main cause
more:
Most Canadians are skeptics, and CBC accidentally says so, then “edits” story « JoNova
Hello Birdy: CBC quickly changed that headline egads ... the truth ...
Cool: Majority Of Canadians Are Climate Sceptics | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
This is so far beyond common sense and science any more, it's outright obvious manipulation from a state broadcaster eagerly suckling our teat. kill this fukker once and for all.
