Warmist Revkin on the warmist hype machine that he has helped power: "Kind of looks like a hype machine, in some ways"

On False Equivalence and False Inequivalence - NYTimes.com

I added an update a day later describing a chart of the “climate alarmism machine” created in response by an Australian blogger.
...My description of the “alarmism” chart as “an overdrawn, overblown caricature of reality” was insufficiently critical.

I had issues with the sociologists’ analysis, but it was part of a serious effort at scholarship. Nearly all of the assertions by the Australian blogger in the second chart were inflammatory and untrue, with only thin threads leading to legitimate issues
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Setting aside the word propaganda, I will readily assert that there has been a longstanding and well-financed effort to raise public concern by downplaying substantial, persistent and legitimate uncertainty about the worst-case outcomes from greenhouse-driven warming and over-attributing the link between such warming and climate-related disasters and other events. Much of this is organized.

But it should be pointed out that there is a climate-style amplifying feedback process, in which a funding agency, a university and researchers highlight the most newsworthy aspect of a new study — even if it’s tentative — and that baton is passed to journalists eagerly sifting for “the front-page thought.” Kind of looks like a hype machine, in some ways.

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Get started with demonstrable steps on energy efficiency and intensified research, for example, that have wide support even among Republicans. What better way to marginalize true obstructionists at the conservative fringe?