Media's climate coverage just 'rampant alarmism': Chris Kenny

Sky News host Chris Kenny has highlighted how climate change coverage by so much of the media is just rampant alarmism coupled together with “fact-free empty gestures pretending that Australian policy can save the planet”.

“The Nine newspapers, the former Fairfax newspapers, are right up there with the ABC and The Guardian on this stuff,” he said.

“In The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald today, timed to run at the height of summer of course, they ran the latest forecasts from the Climate Council, a private climate alarmist outfit about how much hotter our summers might get.

“No only does it tell us that without extra climate action we’ll see more hot days, it also tries to tell us where it might hurt, telling us it’ll be too hot in Melbourne to host the Australian Open Tennis, or too hot in the Barossa Valley to grow shiraz grapes, the horror.

Media’s climate coverage just ‘rampant alarmism’: Chris Kenny

“But the killer gimmick is that the papers have included a click-though guide that tells you how much hotter it will get in your suburb by 2050 or 2090 – I mean really, you enter your postcode and it gives you the answers.”