The so-called “climate emergency” is Exhibit A in the intolerance of “public” broadcasting for any opposing point of view. Either you perpetually believe we’re ten years away from mass death (as PBS projected in 1990), or you cannot appear on PBS.
On Sunday’s PBS News Weekend, the latest hyperbolic hangout was headlined “Earth is ‘perilously close’ to a global warming threshold. Here’s what to know”. The expert doomsayer was Michael Mann, one of those Ivy League leftists from the University of Pennsylvania.
Not only did Mann fear no opponent, he knew PBS would not bring up how he was forced to pay National Review more than $500,000 in legal fees for a frivolous defamation lawsuit, in which he channeled the no-dissent spirit of PBS by saying he viewed his lawsuit as a way to “ruin National Review.”
Weekend anchor Ali Rogin ran through a…
