{"id":2616705,"date":"2026-06-20T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-climate-realism-rises-climate-alarmism-coverage-is-collapsing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:35:32","slug":"as-climate-realism-rises-climate-alarmism-coverage-is-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-climate-realism-rises-climate-alarmism-coverage-is-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"As Climate Realism Rises, Climate Alarmism Coverage Is Collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-climate-realism-rises-climate-alarmism-coverage-is-collapsing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2616705&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The content appears to be an article discussing the media&#8217;s coverage of climate change. It suggests that climate change has become less of a public concern and less commercially viable for media outlets, leading to a significant decline in climate-related reporting. The article highlights that major organizations like The Washington Post, NPR, and Politico have reduced or shut down their dedicated climate journalism teams, partly due to funding cuts from government sources and shifting focus toward affordable energy sources such as fossil fuels. Data indicates a drop in climate coverage in recent years, with fewer journalists attending international climate negotiations. The author argues that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cop26-reset-prince-charles-calls-for-vast-military-style-campaign-to-radically-transform-global-economy\/\" title=\"COP26 Reset: Prince Charles Calls for &#039;Vast Military-Style Campaign&#039; to &#039;Radically Transform&#039; Global Economy\">supposed climate crisis<\/a> is overstated and that the lessening media focus on climate issues is a positive sign, reflecting that real climate impacts are less severe and beneficial in some ways. The piece emphasizes that the narrative of an imminent climate catastrophe is losing credibility and media attention, and it advocates for a more balanced, less alarmist outlook.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Good news has never sold very well with the media. \u201cLost Child Found\u201d stories have never competed well with lurid headlines about crime or scandal. The latter capture more readers\u2019 attention and thus linger longer on the press\u2019 news desks.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s true in general is true of climate change coverage as well. Data show it is increasingly apparent that climate realists, whom the media have tried to silence or censor, have been right. There is no climate crisis in the offing.<\/p>\n<p>The modest warming is not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-like-you-find-power-in-fear-black-woman-slams-alyssa-milano-says-she-condescends-to-black-men\/\" title=\"\u2018People Like You Find Power In Fear...: Black Woman Slams Alyssa Milano, Says She Condescends To Black Men\">making things worse<\/a>. In fact, plants, ecosystems, and crops are benefiting. Rather than running stories highlighting this good news, the media\u2019s obsessive climate change coverage is dramatically and rapidly waning.<\/p>\n<p>The media\u2019s declining climate coverage seems to be a bow to economic reality \u2014 climate change just doesn\u2019t sell. Dollars are drying up for climate-focused think tanks, publications, and news departments. The media\u2019s flagging coverage of climate change is a lagging indicator, following a trend rather than leading it.<\/p>\n<p>Polls consistently show that climate change is not among the top issues of public policy concern for most of the public.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, global finance, commercial activity, and politics have shifted away from concern about cutting carbon emissions toward bringing more affordable, reliable energy, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/expert-on-u-n-s-cop26-climate-panic-is-bad-for-people-and-the-planet\/\" title=\"Expert on U.N....s COP26: ... Panic Is Bad for People and the Planet\">means fossil fuels<\/a>, to the market as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The first big domino fell in early February, about a year after President Donald Trump took office for the second time, when The Washington Post fired 13 of its climate desk reporters, about two-thirds of the staff dedicated to writing about climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post had long been leading the charge with pushing climate scare stories and detrimental energy policies, which were supposedly necessary to prevent a climate catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>In late May, National Public Radio announced it was firing its chief climate editor, Neela Banerjee, and disbanding its 10-person climate desk. The department was dedicated solely to report stories of climate doom.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in early June, Politico announced it was shutting down its flagship climate and environmental set of publications, E&#038;E News Daily, Greenwire, Climatewire, Energywire, and E&#038;E News PM.<\/p>\n<p>These publications were <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >leading independent outlets covering climate<\/a>, energy, and environment news for nearly three decades. Only a few years after Politico took them over, supposedly to \u201csubstantially expand Politico\u2019s footprint\u201d in the energy, climate, and environment fields, it is shuttering their operations.<\/p>\n<p>Politico portrayed its action as a restructuring, but the union representing E&#038;E News viewed the action as less of a restructuring and more of a betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnion blindsided by E&#038;E News closure\u201d is the title of a story on Politico\u2019s E&#038;E News closure published in TalkingBizNews. \u201cOn January 29, as we were discussing buyouts for the energy and environment teams, Joe Schatz told PEN Guild union leaders, \u2018The brands and the publications are not going away. We are looking to sharpen their missions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the second time management has lied to employees in six months \u2014 the first being when John Harris said in December there would be no layoffs at the company, only to lay off some managers a month later,\u201d the story continued.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that the Trump administration\u2019s decision to cut federal government subscriptions to numerous outside publications, including more than $8 million to Politico, played a role in the decision.<\/p>\n<p>It is also probable that the end of taxpayer funding for NPR played a role in NPR\u2019s climate reporting decline. As the government has stopped funding climate propaganda, climate propagandists are being forced to retreat and retrench.<\/p>\n<p>These are just three outlets \u2014 important outlets, no doubt, but still just a ripple in the entire climate journalism industrial complex. But this seems to be symptomatic of the decline of climate change coverage in general.<\/p>\n<p>Climate Home News reported that fewer journalists will attend this year\u2019s UN-sponsored annual climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, than at any time since COVID. Indeed, with only 135 media representatives signed up, the registrations are lower than in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the article noted that climate coverage in general has seen a sharp decline in recent years. Specifically \u201cclimate coverage in the first five months of 2025 was 35% down\u2026 and 41% less than in 2021. New analysis by the Yale Programme on Climate Change Communication found a similar fall in climate coverage in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By any measure, climate change just isn\u2019t the draw it once was, which is good news for the public whom the media has misinformed and harangued on the need to change their dining, shopping, and travel habits for far too long with false claims that climate change is dooming the planet. That was never true!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><b>The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either d or endorsed by the owners of this website. 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