Andrew Bolt's Blog,29/12/17; Climate Change Deniers in 2017; 2017 Big Year for White Supremacists Bolt was their media voice in Australia;

The 10 most ridiculous things media figures said about climate change and the environment in 2017

Ask yourself if you recognize Andrew Bolt's media nutszkreig here?

1. Breitbart’s James Delingpole claimed 400 new scientific papers show global warming is a myth.

 2. The Daily Mail claimed government researchers “duped” world leaders with "manipulated global warming data."

3. Radio host Rush Limbaugh said he was "leery" of hurricane forecasts because they advance a "climate change agenda." 

4. New York Times columnist Bret Stephens argued that because political operatives were wrong in predicting Hillary Clinton would win the election, people should be skeptical of climate science. 

5. Conservative media commentator Stephen Moore claimed that Trump created tens of thousands of coal jobs in the first few months of his presidency.

6. Radio host Hugh Hewitt recommended appointing Rush Limbaugh to a national commission to study climate change.

7. Fox hosts attacked a journalist and called him "stupid" for asking a Trump official about the links between hurricanes and climate change. 

8. Rush Limbaugh argued that the historic BP oil spill caused no environmental damage.

9. Fox News’ Jesse Watters claimed, “No one is dying from climate change.”

10. Radio host Alex Jones said it was "suspicious" that Hurricane Irma came along shortly before the release of a climate disaster movie. 

 

 

 Thanks to Trump, white supremacists had a big year in 2017

How often did Andrew Bolt copy these white supremacist ideas and import them to Australia? His references to Breitbart have been a carbon copy of Bannon's

White supremacist, white nationalist, and “alt-right” figures successfully infected the scope of acceptable discourse in 2017 by regularly inserting racist right-wing extremism into the media conversation. From Confederate statues to the defense of the “It’s OK to be white” propaganda campaign on Fox News prime-time, the media normalized white supremacy during the first year of the Trump administration.

Here Is the Worst Anti-Science BS of 2017 – Mother Jones

1. White House declares climate science a “waste of your money”

2. Trump staffers play dumb on the global warming “hoax”

3. Jeff Sessions opposes forensic science reform

4. New Mexico scrubs its science education standards

5. Citing the Bible, an Indiana county ends needle exchange program

6. Scott Pruitt declares war on climate science

7. States use experimental drugs to execute inmates