Global warming impact exaggerated to get paper published | Can we trust the climate change media?

 

Global warming impact exaggerated to get paper published | Can we trust the climate change media?

 

I'd latched onto an article on Microsoft Start when I opened the Microsoft Edge Browser. Unfortunately for me I lost the article itself (doesn’t appear in the browsers history). This, however, is the URL to the video entitled: Global warming impact exaggerated to get paper published | Can we trust the climate change media? I'd wandered away from a story on Microsoft Start, formerly known simply as MSN, to determine what GBN meant (due-diligence, checking source material to determine if the video was created by a reputable and/or credible source). Initially I wound up with an SERP favoring the Gospel Broadcast Network, sizable informative sidebar. That however wouldn't be related to what I'd sought; search engine optimization failed to assist in yielding reasonable results.

Theres one of those lovely dialogue boxes labeled context attached to this Youtube video, I wonder what it could say? "Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Such shifts can be natural, due to changes in the sun’s activity or large volcanic eruptions. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas."

GB News it turns out is a British free-to-air opinion-orientated news television and radio channel. GB News became Britain's first television news start-up since the launch of Sky News in 1989. Trying to chase down this story has turned from an attempt to post a blog entry about a dubious climate change critique into a slog through the muck of a British Netzine. The SERP I received using the latter half of the YouTube banner has convinced me that I need to go for a run to clear my brain of the trauma.

I seriously hope this was a "one off". In July 2023, an investigation was launched by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards regarding Lee Anderson and a promotional video created for his GB News show. In August 2023, Byline Times revealed that GB News had "settled an employment claim for a five-figure sum in which sexual harassment was alleged against its chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos – and shut down serious racism and bullying allegations raised by two other journalists with further pay-outs and gagging agreements". Ofcom, has found the channel to have breached its standards on more than one occasion regarding misinformation. And The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom. It has a statutory duty to represent the interests of citizens and consumers by promoting competition and protecting the public from harmful or offensive material.[1]^,[2],[3]

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[1] Ofcom. “The Ofcom Broadcasting Code (with the Cross-Promotion Code and the on Demand Programme Service Rules).” Ofcom, 26 July 2019, www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023 

[2] “The Other Side” - Preserving the Integrity of News and Current Affairs, in an Ever-Changing Media Landscape.” News Centre, Office of Communications (Ofcom), 4 July 2023, www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2023/the-other-side. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023. Originally published by the Telegraph on 4 July 2023.

[3] Lunt, Peter, and Sonia Livingstone. LSE Research Online Book Section Regulating Markets in the Interest of Consumers?: On the Changing Regime of Governance in the Financial Service and Communications Sectors. 2007