AG Report 2.22.2024

Climate Change Anxiety

Bloomberg reported that climate change is allegedly fueling a major wave of anxiety, especially among young people. But I don’t view that framing as accurate because Bloomberg’s own reporting concedes that anxiety spikes when the media focuses on the issue. This suggests that alarmism in the press is the main cause of people’s anxiety.

Most climate change issues, especially those resulting from anthropogenic global warming, are long-term issues that can only be addressed through technological innovation. However, the media often portrays these problems as having severe and immediate consequences while suggesting the world is failing to act, which inevitably makes people anxious. If the media tones down its alarmist rhetoric, anxiety over climate change will come down, too, and we can have a productive conversation about solutions.

Vice News Joins pro-Hamas Propagandists in Spreading a Lie about US Congressman

At some point in the last week, pro-Hamas Code Pink activists decided to harass Congressman Andy Ogles. During the exchange where the Code Pink activist denied that Hamas had raped anyone or murdered babies, Ogles responded “I think we should kill them all if that makes you feel better. Everybody in Hamas.” Even Qatar-owned Al Jazeera acknowledged that Ogles was “talking about Hamas in Gaza.”

However, left-wing activists started spreading an edited clip that obscured the last part of the sentence and suggested that Ogles was referring to all Palestinians in Gaza or even children in Gaza. Even worse, Vice News, The New Republic, and Intercept Reporter Ryan Grim picked up that lie and spread it to countless people. You might think it’s wrong to want to kill every member of a terrorist group like Hamas, but that isn’t the same thing as advocating for killing all Palestinians.