How media bias caused the moral panic surrounding climate change

President Biden has put combating climate change at the very top of his national and international agenda, saying that military officials had told him that climate change was the “greatest threat to America,” and both he and Senator Bernie Sanders have recently called climate change “an existential threat.”

Dire statements like this on climate change have become so commonplace that the media now routinely attributes unusual weather events—heat waves, fires, floods, tornados, or hurricanes—to humanity’s insufficiently restrained release of CO2. The New York Times, in particular, has continued to stoke alarm. In a recent article describing President Biden’s problems with his infrastructure bill, a Times reporter wrote “The impact of climate change is already being felt around the world in the form of drought, wildfires, floods, economic disruption and environmentalists say action cannot be postponed.”

However, the amazing fact is that when actual scientific sources are consulted about climate change, the story about an “existential threat”—let alone a military threat—completely falls apart. Yes, climate change is occurring, but the science says there is no evidence that it poses current dangers to mankind today or in the foreseeable future.