{"id":585173,"date":"2021-07-07T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585173"},"modified":"2021-07-07T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:06:14","slug":"cnn-says-fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-each-year-than-the-holocaust-heres-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-says-fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-each-year-than-the-holocaust-heres-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Says Fossil Fuels Kill More People Each Year Than The Holocaust. Here\u2019s The Truth"},"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%2Fcnn-says-fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-each-year-than-the-holocaust-heres-the-truth%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=585173&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1192760185.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u201cReliable Sources,\u201d the CNN show dedicated to critiquing media misinformation, falsely claimed that the death toll from burning fossil fuels kills 10 million people a year, \u201clarger than the Holocaust.\u201d To help combat this alleged epidemic, a fellow guest added, reporters should not bypass scientists and simply report that the world\u2019s extreme heat is an \u201cinjustice\u201d caused by a 40-year conspiracy of the oil companies.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Stelter, who once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-asks-jen-psaki-how-it-can-help-push-joe-bidens-agenda\">asked<\/a> White House spokesperson Jen Psaki how to best cover the White House, asked two climate alarmists to tell him how to cover environmental issues on Sunday\u2019s \u201cReliable Sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After another guest said that \u201ceveryone should be a climate reporter,\u201d Stelter asked New York Magazine editor-at-large David Wallace-Wells, \u201cWhat does it mean, David, to be a climate reporter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallace-Wells replied that it means seeing \u201cthat climate is threaded through every aspect of our lives, at the very highest level through the geopolitics and competition of nations \u2026 not to mention their physical health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, best estimates suggest that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels kills about 10 million people every year, which is dying at the scale of the Holocaust \u2014 in fact, larger than the Holocaust, every single year,\u201d Wallace-Wells, the author of The Uninhabitable Earth, added. \u201cAnd yet, we don\u2019t see many public health stories, we don\u2019t see many moral crises stories addressed to that issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there is no moral equivalence between releasing fine particulate matter through the generation of energy and the deliberate gassing of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime, unfortunately for Wallace-Wells, the estimate of 10 million climate-related deaths a year is fallacious, according to the study\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization previously estimated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/25-03-2014-7-million-premature-deaths-annually-linked-to-air-pollution\">7 million<\/a> people died from all forms of air pollution, not merely fossil fuels. But in April, Harvard researchers using a <a href=\"http:\/\/acmg.seas.harvard.edu\/geos\/\">computer model<\/a> known as GEOS-Chem published a <a href=\"http:\/\/acmg.seas.harvard.edu\/publications\/2021\/vohra_2021_ff_mortality.pdf\">study<\/a> in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0013935121000487#!\">Environmental Research<\/a> which more than doubled that number. But the authors noted that, while the model\u2019s original estimate of fossil fuel deaths came in at 10.2 million, that figure \u201cpredates substantial decline in fossil fuel emissions\u201d from China, \u201cbringing the global total to 8.7 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though they used a radically different threshold to link fossil fuels to deaths, the study found 5.4 million of those deaths took place in China and India. Wallace-Wells simply stuck to the highest possible estimate.<\/p>\n<p>He also ignored how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rrapier\/2021\/02\/01\/how-fossil-fuels-are-saving-lives-in-developing-countries\/?sh=7cb7c7af763f\">fossil fuels save millions of lives a year<\/a> by giving people access to clean cooking, which <em>reduces <\/em>air pollution from charcoal and wood emissions. \u201cEvery year, almost four million people die from household air pollution, which is mostly coming from cooking,\u201d according to Forbes. That does not take into account fossil fuels\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moralcaseforfossilfuels.com\/data\/\">other lifesaving applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter should have been on guard; climate scientists have criticized Wallace-Wells\u2019 history of making \u201cerroneous statements\u201d and relying on inaccurate data. His best-known work on the subject, The Uninhabitable Earth, <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2017\/07\/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html\">claims<\/a> that climate change will destroy human life on the planet by the end of the century. \u201cIt is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>His \u201cdoomist framing\u201d cannot be supported by the science, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/philly\/health\/environment\/climate-change-doomsday-ny-mag-michael-mann-20170710.html\">according<\/a> to Michael Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University. After noting numerous factual errors with the original article that formed the basis of the book, Mann said Wallace-Wells had done nothing but \u201coverstate the evidence, particularly when it feeds a paralyzing narrative of doom and hopelessness.\u201d Bjorn Lomborg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/bjorn-lomborg-declares-false-alarm-climate-hysteria-1\">wrote<\/a> a book-length refutation, noting how human beings could avoid most of the catastrophes Wallace-Wells predicts with existing technology.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter, who prides himself on sticking with facts over narrative, then turned to Emily Atkin, the founder of HEATED, which <a href=\"https:\/\/heated.world\/\">bills<\/a> itself as \u201ca newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atkin said that journalists who are reporting on extreme weather, like the heat in the Pacific Northwest last week, do not need to establish <em>whether<\/em> climate change played a role. They can simply assure their readers that it did \u2014 and blame it on greedy oil executives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not an excuse that you need to talk to a climate scientist anymore to include something in your story that says, \u2018This extreme heat event was made more likely by climate change,\u2019\u201d Atkin said. \u201cAnd what I would also argue is that you should probably have a sentence in there saying, \u2018Climate change is caused by fossil fuels,\u2019 because climate change is not something that\u2019s happening to us; it\u2019s something that\u2019s being done to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is injustice due to a 40-year campaign to lie and prioritize short-term profit over the health of vulnerable people. So, those are just basic facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stelter labeled the story of climate change \u201ca corruption story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat makes it sexy, to be honest,\u201d said Atkin. \u201cIt makes it a good story to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that does not necessarily transform the narrative into an accurate story that serves its readers, rather than political ideologues pushing an extreme Green agenda.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReliable Sources,\u201d the CNN show dedicated to critiquing media misinformation, falsely claimed that the death toll from burning fossil fuels kills 10 million people a year, \u201clarger than the Holocaust.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314169,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1192760185.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CNN Says Fossil Fuels Kill More People Each Year Than The Holocaust. 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