haris alic

farm team for fox?

kos ref

for the longest time, the FoxNews website seemed pretty normal on climate change, all things considered. While Fox TV centered _{hatemongers like Tucker Carlson}_ and the website reflects that with ample coverage of what was on TV, the original content produced for the website was generally indistinguishable from any other lazy political "news" that quotes who said what. The site was clearly biased in every conceivable way (choice of stories to cover, who to quote, how to frame stories, etc) but wasn’t necessarily going out of the way to spread climate disinformation.

That appears to be changing.

fox News dot com has, in the last month or so, hired two conservative propagandists in journalist disguises, Thomas Catenacci, _{formerly an energy reporter}_ at the _{Koch-sponsored Daily Caller}_, _{:{and :(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}::{Haris Alic:(style="background-color:#ff9900;"):}:}_, formerly of _{the}_ _{cult}_-_{founded}_ and _{$1bilion+ sponsored}_ _{Washington}_ _{Times}_ where he _{turned fossil fool press releases into "news”}_. Before that, he was at _{white supremacy-laundering Breitbart}_, and before that, the _{billionaire-backed Free Beacon}_.

Back on June 21st, Thomas Catenacci _{published his first Fox piece}_attacking Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for calling on Biden to pause the federal gas tax, "just months after declining to pause her own state's gas tax." (Maybe something changed in the months between?)

Since then, he's published one Dem hit piece after another, real hard-hitting stuff like "_{Kamala Harris' office posts video of VP sinking basketball shot, leaves out her first 5 misses}_."

He also covered the _{climate activists slashing SUV tires in NYC}_ (_{twice}_), and somehow suckered a Sierra Club spokesperson into feeding him quotes for a piece about how environmentalists are "_{pushing extreme measures amid global energy crisis,}_" like investing in clean energy sources not controlled by Russia, which is apparently extreme.

This week, _{Catenacci helped propagate the lie}_ that protests in the Netherlands and the _{uprising in Sri Lanka}_ are driven by anti-climate policy sentiments, and yesterday he brought the Daily Caller's trick of "reporting" on a climate advocate's airline emissions to_{Fox with a piece about John Kerry's family's private jet}_ emissions (quoting, of course, a professional denier).

Meanwhile, on July 8th Haris Alic published his first Fox story, advancing the Koch network's organized anti-ESG disinformation with "news" that Sen. Steve Daines (R., Mont.) introduced a go-no-where bill to "_{block Biden from adding 'woke' requirements to US retirement plans.}_" Then he did a puff piece about Republican Gov. Youngkin's "_{speculation of 2024 presidential run}_," followed by a piece about how Nancy Pelosi went on "_{lavish Italian vacation as inflation back home hits 40-year high}_."

You know, Fair And Balanced.

This week, Alic is gassing up former ALEC chair Joe Manchin with an entirely credulous story headlined "_{Manchin denies he opposes Democratic spending bill, says he'll wait until August to decide}_." No surprise, when it comes to the fossil fuel loving Democrat, Fox News has no problem taking him at his word and including zero skeptical quotes pushing back on his claims!

How do you follow "reporting" that is shamelessly tongue-on-boot? With a story about conservative ads, of course, turning your compatriot's paid media spend into some free earned media about how (industry front) groups have paid for a "_{deluge of conservative ads [to] urge Manchin to stand up to Democrats}_."

Not exactly breaking news that Fox is backing fossil fuels over a livable climate, but the fact that its website just hired not one but two up-and-coming climate disinfo spreaders suggests Fox is only ramping up the lies as the midterm election season _{heats}_ up.

see catenecci BS horner dicaprio lawsuits

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/climate-activists-embrace-doomsday-rhetoric-despite-falling-flat-in-previous-warnings

pirro ~ gore vid, don't tell me how to live]

Eight years? Nine years? Six years ago? A climate change activist guide to doomsday

The end is going to come soon, unless it doesn't

By Haris Alic | Fox News

Al Gore likens climate change deniers' inaction to Uvalde police failure

'The Five' panelists discuss Al Gore's comparison of climate change deniers to Uvalde police officers.

Advocates of combating climate change are increasingly invoking doomsday scenarios to pressure President Biden to take unilateral action to lower greenhouse gas emissions, despite a history of such claims falling flat.

The rhetoric is coming not only from progressive activists but also Democrats on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers, in particular, have intensified their doomsday predictions as hopes for a climate change deal have waned within the Senate in recent days.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., recently told supporters that if immediate action was not taken on climate change, an immigration and public health crisis was likely to appear by 2030.

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"Thousands of people are dying," said Sanders. "You’re going to see more mass migrations, more diseases … For the sake of future generations, our kids, our grandchildren, we have got to act."

Concordia University echoed a similar message when publicizing its Climate Clock. Launched in 2020 to give world leaders a sense of urgency, the clock purports to denote the amount of time humanity has left to address climate change to avoid the most dangerous consequences of global warming.

At the moment, that figure stands at just under seven years. Activists say that is time left to avert disaster by limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Protesters gather outside the White House June 1, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the Unites States from the Paris climate accord. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

In 2019, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested the humanity would be done by 2031.

"Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?’" she said.

Critics note that the doom and gloom is nothing new. They say it's part of a long-running strategy that sees proponents of combating climate change lay out alarming predictions of global catastrophe.

"People have been proclaiming the end of the world since forever. All have been wrong," said Steve Milloy, who advised President Donald Trump on staffing the Environmental Protection Agency after the 2016 election. "They make these End Times predictions for a variety of reasons ranging from ignorance to politics to personal aggrandizement."

Some point to former Vice President Al Gore as the poster boy for the strategy. Gore has made millions and won a Nobel Peace Prize for his climate change activism.

But some of his major predictions have failed to become reality.

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In 2006, Gore told audiences while marketing his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," that the world would reach a point of no return in ten years if the global economy did not transition away from fossil fuels. Likewise, Gore in 2009 cited evidence suggesting that there was a 75% chance that by 2013, the North Pole would start becoming "ice-free" for a portion of the summer.

Some experts say the reason why such predictions prove faulty, even when backed up by scientific studies, is because it's difficult to gauge the economic and social impact of changes in temperature.

"It's incredibly difficult to translate temperature increases into changing weather effects using predictive models," said Myron Ebell, the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s center for energy and environment. "Most of the time the data doesn't line up or scientists assume a larger temperature increase will happen than actually does and that skews the entire prediction."

Critics say that studies trying to analyze the impact of changes in temperature rely heavily on correlations, rather than causes

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Doomsday predictions have only increased as climate legislation on Capitol Hill has stalled because of Democratic infighting.

Last week, 60 House Democrats echoed the message when calling on Biden to declare a national emergency on climate change. The move would allow the White House to mobilize emergency powers to lower carbon emissions.

"If we don’t really begin to lower emissions, this planet has no chance," Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Calif, said recently. "We have a few years left and that’s it. The planet is dying."

The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyoming, July 27, 2018. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Democrats have also tried to capitalize on the recent heatwave besieging the East Coast as proof that climate change is getting worse and dire action is needed.

Milloy says such tactics ignore broader trends and data when it comes to the climate.

"Climate alarmists are trying to surf a heat wave to pressure Joe Biden into declaring a climate emergency," he said.

Haris Alic covers Congress and politics for Fox News Digital. You can contact him at haris.alic@fox.com or follow him on Twitter at @realharisalic.