Bill Gates and other liberal donors are funding a new scheme that seeks to inject narratives into corporate media reports to promote the globalist “climate change” agenda.
Some of America’s largest liberal organizations are involved in the scheme, including the Microsoft co-founder’s Gates Foundation.
The plan seeks to encourage and reward journalists who push “global warming” narratives in their news reports.
The scheme has been dubbed the Climate Blueprint for Media Transformation.
It emerged from a 2023 green agenda conference sponsored by the Solutions Journalism Network and Covering Climate Now.
The Solutions Journalism Network is funded by several left-wing foundations, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation.
The Gates Foundation has been instrumental in the war on food by pushing for restrictions on meat and dairy products.
Gates has also been heavily involved in the push to replace meat and dairy with lab-grown products and insect-based “foods.”
Meanwhile, the Hewlett Foundation has a track record of working to influence reporters.
Their influence can be seen in the Climate Blueprint, a 14-part guide for how journalists should insert green agenda narratives into their reporting.
Each section of the document is written by a different journalist or activist.
It covers subjects ranging from “Community Engagement” to “Climate Justice.”
The Climate Blueprint opens with a section called “The Everything Story.”
In this section, Covering Climate Now deputy director Andrew McCormick encourages journalists to “take bold action.”
McCormick argues that journalists should make stories on “every beat,” including crime and sports, about “climate change.”
Covering Climate Now co-founder Kyle Pope echoed his colleague’s advice in the Columbia Journalism Review Monday.
Pope complained that the Kardashian family received more coverage than alleged rising ocean temperatures.
He also claimed that “global warming” has begun to be covered only “very recently.”
In response, Pope urged journalists to step up and “tell the most important story on Earth.”
In the Blueprint’s section, on “Community Engagement,” “India Currents” audience engagement editor Prachi Singh provides guidelines for reporters.
Singh says that “reporters need to shift from chasing deadlines to meaningfully connecting” with “women, people of color, Indigenous peoples, the LGBTQIA+ community,” and other groups he claims are more affected by the so-called “climate crisis.”
Investigative reporter Amy Westervelt explicitly urges journalists to paint anyone involved with the fossil fuel industry as a villain.
Westervelt urges reporters to find universities that take money from energy companies and build relationships with “one professor who doesn’t particularly like the arrangement,” presumably to have him criticize his employer.
Meanwhile, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jennifer Oldham encourages reporters to “put in the time to gain activists’ trust.”
Oldham notes that “validation is paramount” and offers tips for reporters to “best cover climate campaigns in order to give them the weight they deserve.”
“Be intentional with your language,” is one of Oldham’s tips.
“Do you call an event a ‘demonstration; or a ‘riot’?” Oldham asks.
“Words matter. Calling an encounter a ‘violent clash with police’ criminalizes demonstrators without offering a comparable criticism of law enforcement’s actions.”
The Climate Blueprint calls for reporters to go all-in on fearmongering about the alleged “climate crisis.”
However, it also warns that doing so could be traumatic for journalists.
In the Blueprint, Yessenia Funes, “a New York-based queer Latina journalist,” writes:
“Leadership at the publication has taken thoughtful steps to lighten the workload in summer, when heat-driven extreme weather — from wildfires to hurricanes — worsens.
“By getting ahead on stories during the lull of winter and spring, the team isn’t overwhelmed by the onslaught of tragedy after summer tragedy.”
“Ultimately, climate and environmental reporters can’t carry this burden alone,” Funes adds.
“It is incumbent on the industry to take the time to build resources professionals urgently need — including access to high-quality health care and flexible work schedules that give journalists the time they need to pause and reflect on the stories they’re responsible for sharing and the emotions they’re silently carrying.”
The push to inject more hysteria into reporting comes amid mounting evidence that the warnings about the “climate crisis” have been overblown.
The Washington Post this month published a chart showing the Earth’s current mean surface temperature is actually around the lowest it has been in the past 485 million years.
This year also marks the deadline for the Pentagon’s 2004 predictions in a report to President George W. Bush.
At the time, the report claimed that in 20 years, “climate change” would wreak havoc on the world.
It said “global warming” would turn the United Kingdom’s climate “Siberian” and lead to nuclear conflict, drought, and famine.
None of those predictions have come to pass.
