Right-wing CNSNews.com has a "news" article that's simply a repackaging of a June oped by Alabama climatologist John Christy, who is perhaps best known for keeping a data set that seems to need constant correction from other scientists.
The CNSNews article demonstrates the ease with which conservative media masks opinion as news to fool its readers. The entire article merely consists of quotes from Christy, mainly pulled from his oped but also from Congressional testimony. Interestingly, the headline points out that Christy is using the exact language recommended by for-profit fossil fuel booster Alex Epstein.
Specifically, the headline states there is a "moral imperative" to burn fossil fuels, and that we must use fossil fuels to "liberate" humanity from the evils of energy poverty. Sure, this is great if you own fossil fuels, but it's the exact opposite of what the Pope and other religious figures (with slightly more authority on morality) claim.
We see the whole game here - fossil fuel companies pay pundits like Epstein to think up catchy phrases, which he then passes to supposedly unbiased voices like Christy, who is then parroted in biased "news" outlets and shared by ideological sympathizers.
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