by Rhonda Wilson, All News Pipeline:
More than five and a half years ago, The Guardian updated its house style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world.
Ten years after the Climategate scandal broke, Damian Carrington, The Guardian’s environment editor, announced on 17 May 2019 that instead of using “climate change,” the preferred terms for The Guardian are “climate emergency, crisis, or breakdown” and “global heating” is favored over “global warming,” although the original terms were not banned.
The house style guide is a guide followed by journalists who write and edit for The Guardian and Observer.
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Commenting on introducing the new language to be used relating to climate change, The Guardian‘s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, stated, “We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue. The phrase ‘climate change’, for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity.”
This change reflected the urgency of the situation and aimed to better convey the seriousness of global heating, The Guardian claimed.
The Guardian‘s climate change language introduced in 2019 is not fair, unbiased, objective and neutral journalism that serves as a watchdog on government and those who wish to be in power – it is activism, at best.
Psychological operations (“PsyOp”) or information operations are activities aimed at influencing the motives and objective reasoning of audiences. It involves the use of communication or other means to influence the views, attitudes or behavior of adversaries or civilian populations to achieve an objective.
Whose objective is The Guardian attempting to achieve? Viner tells us. “Increasingly, climate scientists and organizations from the UN to the Met Office are changing their terminology, and using stronger language to describe the situation we’re in,” she said.
You can read The Guardian’s article HERE. To preserve this important and damning evidence of The Guardian using manipulative language to influence its readers’ views, attitudes and behavior, we have uploaded a copy of the article below.
To this day, this rule for journalists and editors applies. Under “climate change” The Guardian‘s style guide states (emphasis theirs):
climate change
is no longer considered to accurately reflect the seriousness of the overall situation; use climate emergency or climate crisis instead to describe the broader impact of climate change. However, use climate breakdown or climate change or global heating when describing it specifically in a scientific or geophysical sense eg “Scientists say climate breakdown has led to an increase in the intensity of hurricanes”climate science denier or climate denier
The OED defines a sceptic as “a seeker of the truth; an inquirer who has not yet arrived at definite conclusions”.Most “climate sceptics”, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, deny climate change is happening, or is caused by human activity, so denier is more accurate
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