Pajamas Media » MSM Inertia: What We Can Learn from 120 Years of Climate Catastrophe Reporting

Pajamas Media » MSM Inertia: What We Can Learn from 120 Years of Climate Catastrophe Reporting

But when one looks back at the history of climate reporting, you find a remarkably consistent and recurring theme.
The global temperature has cycled from cold to warm to cold to warm again over the last 120 years.

The media cycles of impending climatic doom mirror the climate cycles themselves, but with a roughly ten- to fifteen-year lag.

It seems whenever the world warms, the volume of global warming stories increases to match the trend.

Conversely, when the climate cools the major media outlets pull on their long johns and warn us of the next ice age.

However, it takes many years for the media to catch up to what the climate is actually doing.