CBS News is apparently relying on an outside group called ‘Climate Central’ to inform its reporting on weather, inserting a narrative of climate change wherever they deem necessary.
Climate Central bills itself as a ‘non-advocacy’ group but if you look at them closely, they are clearly pushing the idea of climate change and CBS News takes their word, inserting information provided by the group into their reporting.
It looks like climate change activism disguised as scientific expertise.
FOX News reported:
CBS News leans on reporting produced by outside climate change group
CBS News has leaned on content from a climate change group produced by former network staffers.
In recent weeks, CBS News has disclosed in both on-air and online reports its coordination with Climate Central, a nonprofit that calls itself a “policy-neutral” and “independent group of scientists and communicators who research and report the facts about our changing climate and how it affects people’s lives.”
CBS News has cited Climate Central research dozens of times since 2021, according to Grabien transcripts. But it wasn’t until July that the network began consistently referring to “our partners at Climate Central” on air.
Last month, CBS News published a story about melting glaciers that also aired on “Sunday Morning.” Ben Tracy was the correspondent on the segment, with his byline at the top of the article. A disclaimer at the bottom read, “Story produced by Chris Spinder, in partnership with Climate Central. Editor: Chris Jolly.”
Another CBS News article in July, also tied to an on-air segment with Tracy, included the disclaimer that the story was “produced in partnership with Climate Central.”
This is the description for the CBS News YouTube video below. Emphasis is ours:
A new report from Climate Central warns that rising global temperatures are extending allergy season, leading to more pollen and stronger allergic reactions. Warmer weather means fewer freezing days, giving plants more time to grow and release allergens. Environmental health expert Louis Ziska explains how climate change is affecting allergy sufferers and what to expect this year.
Climate Central is cited as the authority for the information in the report within the first 30 seconds.
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The nonprofit’s website says it has garnered more than 50,000 mentions in more than 170 countries with “[a]rticles, stories, and segments using Climate Central content to communicate climate change impacts and solutions reach local audiences nearly every day.”
The organization has been busy for nearly two decades disseminating climate change examples and theories that now routinely show up everywhere from network reporting to comments by local weather forecasters.
Trends and repetition in mainstream news often don’t happen by accident. Often there’s an organization or lobby group seeding the narrative. By its own admission, Climate Central is one of those organizations.
In the organization’s timeline, it reports that in 2010 launched a plan “to bring climate change to TV weather.”
This looks like a bunch of progressives who decided that the media wasn’t doing enough reporting on climate change and created this group with the express purpose of changing that. And CBS News has gone along with it.
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