As the Seas Around Them Rise, Louisiana Fisherman Deny Climate Change
No. He's asking WHY it's a politically charged topic. What motivation do climate scientists/CNN have for suggesting that man-made climate change is negatively affecting our environment other than a legitimate desire to report facts?
It's pretty obvious what the motivation is for deniers.
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There isn't one.
CNN does have a clear agenda to toe the Democratic Party line to cater to democrats to increase ratings. It worked so well for Fox News that CNN has followed suit and I don't think anyone here will even attempt to deny CNN or Fox bias. The agenda here is two fold. It's to create a click bait article and mislead readers to believe a very partial truth. The second is to cater to the left, their main viewer base, by pushing a hot topic with very misleading information. Either way, the agenda is money. There is so much fact based stuff they can be pushing in regards to climate change but instead they insist on ignoring the main causes of wetland loss in Louisiana to try and show how climate change is already impacting the US. They also paint the very people they are interviewing as deniers for saying there are multiple things at play and only one person they interviewed outright denied it. They have a scientist and never questioned him about how carving canals or redirecting the largest river in the country has had adverse impacts. They use numbers from Tulane University on water rise rates of the gulf but never once use numbers from the massive amounts of studies that have shown what the main causes of wetland loss in Louisiana are.
They mention how much wetlands were lost from 2004-2008 but fail to mention that a massive portion (almost all) of the wetland loss during that time came from a historic stretch of major hurricanes directly impacting the area. Katrina was particularly damaging followed by Rita which came right on the heels not allowing any recovery of vegetation that helps protect the wetlands during hurricanes. Then you had Gustav and Ike that didn't do a whole lot of additional damage but unwound the 3 years of recovery after Katrina.
Since 2009, Satellite images show very little in the way of wetland loss and even show expansion in some areas.
So, did they ignore all that because they are stupid? Because they are horrible journalists? Because they lacked a budget? Or did they ignore all that to suit their own needs and wants (agenda)? I'm really not sure how that is hard to see.
Don't want to believe me? The USGS says the same thing. LSU, Tulane and even SLU have conducted large government funded studies on wetland loss, the causes and how to fix them.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/la-wetlands/
Want to fix the wetlands, it's pretty simple. Knock down all the levees and let the wetland building process (Ms river) get back to work. Bet you wouldn't want that though since they protect your homes.