{"id":2671824,"date":"2026-09-28T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-climate-reporter-my-industry-protected-the-climate-change-narrative-by-killing-positive-news-stories\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:09:29","slug":"former-climate-reporter-my-industry-protected-the-climate-change-narrative-by-killing-positive-news-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-climate-reporter-my-industry-protected-the-climate-change-narrative-by-killing-positive-news-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Climate Reporter: My Industry Protected the Climate Change Narrative By Killing Positive News Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fformer-climate-reporter-my-industry-protected-the-climate-change-narrative-by-killing-positive-news-stories%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=2671824&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>A former climate reporter, Lucy Biggers, explained that she intentionally avoided covering positive developments in climate science to maintain the narrative that climate change is an existential threat. She admitted this was a personal choice driven by self-censorship and the desire to align with the mainstream climate movement, wich leads to underreporting of events like the unusually quiet 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. Biggers believes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-women-arent-50-more-likely-to-die-from-childbirth-today-than-a-generation-ago\/\" title=\"No, Women Aren\u2019t 50% More Likely To Die From Childbirth Today Than A Generation Ago\">media outlets tend<\/a> to cover climate crises intensely while neglecting positive stories to avoid giving fuel to climate change skeptics. She also noted that the quiet hurricane season, attributed to El Ni\u00f1o, has received limited coverage despite being scientifically significant.Biggers expressed that her own past acceptance of mainstream climate arguments without thorough questioning was influenced by social and professional pressures. Even though some major outlets reported on the lull in hurricanes, she suggests that the media generally favors alarming narratives over positive or neutral climate news.  <\/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>A former climate reporter said she <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >deliberately avoided covering positive climate developments<\/a> because doing so would have complicated the narrative that climate change posed an existential threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cWhen I was a climate reporter, I never covered positive climate stories because it would \u2018muddy the narrative\u2019 that climate change was an existential threat,\u201d Lucy Biggers wrote Tuesday on X. \u201cNo one told me to behave this way. I chose to do this of my own volition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Biggers, who now works for The Free Press, pointed to the historically quiet 2026 Atlantic hurricane season as an example of the type of story she believes climate reporters may be reluctant to highlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cI think this is why we rarely see events like this year\u2019s historically quiet eastern hurricane season covered widely by the news,\u201d Biggers wrote. \u201cMany reporters believe covering it will \u2018give fodder to climate change deniers.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Just five tropical storms have formed, none reaching hurricane strength, The Weather Channel <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/2026\/09\/10\/storms\/hurricane\/atlantic-hurricane-season-quiet-during-peak-september\">reported<\/a>. The season also set a record Saturday for the latest start without a hurricane in the satellite era, which dates back to 1966, CBS News <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/atlantic-hurricane-season-record-low-el-nino\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]t was mostly soft self-censorship. I knew what the accepted beliefs of the climate movement were, and I wasn\u2019t going to stick my neck out and challenge them. That would have been so much work and threatened my standing within the group,\u201d Biggers, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I ignored anything that challenged the mainstream understanding of climate change anything positive about plastics, fossil fuels, or capitalism. I stayed away from those topics because I was protecting my own neck and wanted to fit in with the group,\u201d Biggers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Biggers previously described herself as a former climate activist and <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BVQwFJ_-hYY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> she spent years accepting the arguments of the climate movement without seriously questioning them while working at left-wing outlet NowThis News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say it is still common today. You can see it with the quiet east coast hurricane season we\u2019re experiencing right now. Nobody is covering it in the same way they would if we were having a very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/army-national-guard-faces-second-year-of-seeing-net-loss-of-soldiers\/\" title=\"Army National Guard Faces Second Year of Seeing Net Loss of Soldiers\">active hurricane season<\/a> on the East Coast,\u201d Biggers told DCNF.<br \/> \u201cIf that were happening, we would never hear the end of it. But because the story doesn\u2019t confirm a dangerous climate catastrophe, newsrooms are less inclined to cover it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists have largely blamed the unusually quiet season on a powerful El Ni\u00f1o, a climate pattern marked by an unusual warming of the Pacific Ocean\u2019s surface temperatures. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aoml.noaa.gov\/how-does-el-nino-impact-atlantic-hurricane-season\/\">said<\/a> El Ni\u00f1o increases vertical wind shear over the tropical Atlantic, making it harder for hurricanes to form and organize.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic hurricane season is far from over, however, with the National Hurricane Center <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\">listing<\/a> Nov. 30 as its official end point.<br \/> <b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cI basically spent half my twenties, kind of just buying everything as it was sold to me. Never really investigating,\u201d Biggers said during a May appearance on TRIGGERnometry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The former climate reporter said she had become convinced climate change represented an existential threat despite lacking what she now describes as a deep understanding of climate science.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cThat was how turned off my critical thinking was, because I was getting so much support from being part of this movement that I just pushed it,\u201d Biggers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">While Biggers argued the quiet season has received limited coverage, several major news outlets have reported on the absence of hurricanes. The Associated Press, CBS News, The Washington Post and The New York Times have all covered the unusual lull in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate reporters now frequently cover studies that project a frightening future without looking at the empirical evidence we already have,\u201d Biggers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cThank you, President Trump!\u201d the White House\u2019s Rapid Response 47 account <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2098959864609259758\">wrote<\/a> on X Sunday in response to a post from meteorologist Chris Martz, <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisMartzWX\/status\/2098790106643534322\">describing<\/a> the hurricane season as historic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Martz had written that no hurricanes had formed in the North Atlantic as of Sept. 12, marking the first time since the satellite era began in 1966 that the basin had gone that far into the calendar year without producing one. He also said year-to-date accumulated cyclone energy, a measure of overall tropical storm activity, was at its lowest level since 1941.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen frightening weather occurs, the news harps on it endlessly. The positive stories are rarely covered at all,\u201d Biggers said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. 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