UN makes “landmark” deal on information integrity to shut up annoying denialist
Look out. Climate Denialism is a “security threat” now.
As the Net Zero fantasy crumbles and the political tide shifts, the Blob has up’d the ante and pressed the red hot “security threat” button. Climate deniers are now such a mortal threat (to the sinecures of the Blobcrats) they must be contained.
As David Archibald says “When they have lost the argument, they change the rules.”
Drafted in collaboration with civil society members of the Global Initiative Advisory Group, the Declaration has been endorsed by ten countries so far – Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Uruguay.
“Climate change is no longer a threat of the future; it is a tragedy of the present,” said President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Belém. “We live in an era in which obscurantists reject scientific evidence and attack institutions. It is time to deliver yet another defeat to denialism.”
Oh, the horrible obscurantists! Humanity will be saved, but only if governments can rule without having to answer difficult questions.
The UN must be feeling fragile because the term “denialism” is decidedly unscientific — it is the language of political and religious struggle, not of atmospheric physics.
Perhaps they’re afraid the world might recognize that the UN is a superfluous, bloodsucking freeloader? To make themselves useful, the UN are providing an excuse for sympathetic (socialist) governments to launch information integrity commissions, or to fund “research” into misinformation online.
The new key phrase is “Information Integrity”
They couldn’t call it the Ministry of Truth again, so the new catchword of censorship is “information integrity”. The question the UN hopes you won’t ask is “who defines integrity?” for they be the Kings.
Strangely the Australian Greens were already speaking this lingo five months ago. The new Global Initiative for Information Integrity sounds spookily similar to The Select Committee on Information Integrity that the Australian Greens set up in August. It’s almost like the UN phoned up the Greens in July and told them what to do?
Google Trends shows that there was a sudden mysterious global interest in “information integrity” from July this year.
The Greens are the Bankers and the Bureaucrats best friend.
The UN speaks with forked tongue
Watch how the masters of wordsmithing hypnotise their victims (below). They call on governments to suppress the critics of the UN. But the master puppeteers frame that criticism as “attacks on scientists and journalists” even though most of the critics are scientists and journalists. To anyone who is not paying attention, the UN just silently embedded the assumption that the scientists are all on their side and the critics are not scientists.
They finish by painting themselves as heroes of free speech — saying “Scientists and researchers should never fear telling the truth.”
The Declaration calls on governments, the private sector, civil society, academia and funders to take concrete action to counter the growing impact of disinformation, misinformation, denialism and deliberate attacks on environmental journalists, defenders, scientists and researchers that undermine climate action and threaten societal stability.
“We must fight mis- and disinformation, online harassment, and greenwashing,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in the lead-up to COP30. “Through the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change, Governments and organizations are working together to fund research and action promoting information integrity on climate issues. Scientists and researchers should never fear telling the truth.”
Most of all, it’s just so nicey-nice. Look at the schmalzy soft photography. The UN is just a nice 25 year old women, doing nice, harmless things to help you. Sure.
The Key Commitments are pure mindless word-salada. E.g.
Under the Declaration, signatories commit to:
- Promote the integrity of information related to climate change in line with international human rights law, including freedom of expression standards
- Promote informed and inclusive climate action by advancing equitable access to accurate, evidence-based, understandable information for all
So the UN calls on rich countries to fund research on climate misinformation in developing countries, because those people don’t need food and electricity, they need protection from NASA astronauts and Nobel Prize winners who talk about unapproved science?
“With resources falling short of needs globally, the Declaration calls on governments to ensure funds to research climate information integrity, especially in developing countries.”
It is a wall of word-fakery and lies from beginning to end: those who steal your human right of free speech say they are protecting it.
Jo Nova
Jo Nova is science presenter, writer, speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic’s Handbook. This article was previously on her website joannenova.com.au.
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