Most news outlets rely on The Associated Press style guideofficially known as the AP Stylebookas the arbiter for grammar‚ spelling‚ and terminology in news coverage. While AP puts forth its style guide as an impartial rubric for fair coverage‚ its rules often exclude conservative views from the outset.Take APs latest round of updates‚ released Friday. The updates include guidance on how to avoid stigmatizing obese people‚ admonitions to avoid calling people homeless as it might be dehumanizing‚ and warnings to avoid the term female since some people object to its use as a descriptor for women because it can be seen as emphasizing biology and reproductive capacity over gender identity. APs style guide prefers anti-abortion and abortion-rights as adjectives‚ urging journalists to avoid pro-life‚ pro-choice‚ and pro-abortion.Yet one of the largest sections of the updated style guide involves climate change‚ a term that AP says can be used interchangeably with the term climate crisis.Climate change‚ resulting in the climate crisis‚ is largely caused by human activities that emit carbon dioxide‚ methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere‚ according to the vast majority of peer-reviewed studies‚ science organizations and climate scientists‚ the AP style guide intones. This happens from the burning of coal‚ oil and natural gas‚ and other activities.Greenhouse gases are the main driver of climate change‚ the guide adds.AP insists that this is true‚ with a capital T. When telling the climate story‚ the style guide urges journalists to avoid false balancegiving a platform to unfounded claims or unqualified sources in the guise of balancing a story by including all views. For example‚ coverage of a study describing effects of climate change need not seek other side comment that humans have no influence on the climate.Naturally‚ this is a red herring. Those who doubt the climate-alarmist narrative dont maintain that humans have no influence on the climate. Rather‚ we say that the direct impact of human activitiesincluding the burning of fossil fuelsis poorly understood and that efforts to predict future events based on various climate alarmist models have repeatedly failed. In the 1970s‚ alarmists warned of a coming ice age. In the 1990s‚ the form of the destroyer would be global warming. Now‚ the alarmists have adopted the catch-all term climate change‚ so they can retroactively assign human agency to any disaster that strikes us at the moment. Its quite clever‚ if you want a perpetual fear-mongering tactic. Of course‚ the narrative is rather inconvenient for the rest of us who want cheaper energy and wish to solve the humanitarian crisis of extreme poverty in other parts of the world.In fact‚ The Associated Press tacitly admits that the climate alarmists have no smoking-gun evidence that human activities are bringing about Armageddon. Avoid attributing single occurrences to climate change unless scientists have established a connection‚ the style guide advises. At the same time‚ stories about individual events should make it clear that they occur in a larger context.APs willingness to completely write off the other side proves particularly instructive‚ considering the style guides claim that climate change affects many other issues.The climate story goes beyond extreme weather and science‚ the Stylebook notes. It also is about politics‚ human rights‚ inequality‚ international law‚ biodiversity‚ society and culture‚ and many other issues. Successful climate and environment stories show how the climate crisis is affecting many areas of life.If journalists can throw out any pretense of objectivity on climate‚ and insist that climate change impacts all other social issues‚ can they also safely dismiss the obligation to cover both sides on politics‚ inequality‚ society‚ and culture? How does AP aim to prevent this rot from spreading across other topics and preventing fair coverage entirely?The prognosis is not good. AP has repeatedly put its thumb on the scale to silence criticism of abortion and gender ideologyeven going so far as telling journalists to avoid the term transgenderism because it frames transgender identity as an ideology.Even while urging journalists to avoid using the terms climate change deniers and climate change skeptics‚ the AP style guide suggests a more specific alternative‚ such as people who do not agree with mainstream science that says the climate is changing or people who disagree with the severity of climate change projected by scientists. Talk about stigmatizing.AP doesnt admit that the supposed unanimity of scientists on man-made catastrophic climate change is based on a liethat 97% of scientists dont actually believe the world is going to end because we burn fossil fuels. The study claiming to reach that conclusion merely analyzed peer-reviewed research papers‚ put them in seven categories‚ and then artificially claimed that the vast majority of the papers making any claim favored the alarmist view. Many scientists have said the study mischaracterized their research.It remains unclear exactly how greenhouse gases are affecting the planet‚ mainly because the global atmosphere is extremely complicated. Most climate models fail to predict exactly what will happen. Perhaps decreasing carbon emissions will help the climate‚ but the science is far less settled than AP would have journalists believe.If news coverage dismisses all skepticism of an alarmist narrative‚ it will skew the information ecosystem and disincentivize the very research that helps determine what precise impacts greenhouse gases have on the environment. It may also lead skeptical Americans to dismiss climate science altogether‚ in the same way that the medical establishment squandered much of its public credibility by suppressing concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic.So why does The Associated Press put its thumb on the scale? The creators of the style guide may legitimately believe there is only one perspective‚ but they also have a hefty economic incentive to act like it.AP has received large grants from left-wing foundations‚ particularly for its climate reporting.The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation spent $2.5 million on APs climate and education reporting‚ the Washington Free Beacon reported. That foundation also funds Planned Parenthood.The Rockefeller Foundation awarded AP a $750‚000 grant in 2021 for a climate change initiative to report on the increased and urgent need for reliable‚ renewable electricity in underserved communities worldwide. The KR Foundation‚ a Danish nonprofit that seeks the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels‚ gave approximately $300‚000 to The Associated Press in December 2022‚ but AP appeared to hide that donation until late last year.AP may push climate alarmism even without these fundsthe latest style guide appears to feature left-wing groupthink on a host of issuesbut the money still provides extra incentive.The APs increasingly leftward tiltand its attempt to force its groupthink through its style guidecreates a rather hostile climate for actual journalism‚ let alone good science.The post THUMB ON THE SCALE: AP Style Guide Tries to Exclude Climate Wrongthink From Journalism appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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An American man on a cruise vacation suddenly disappeared in Mexico while with his family. The man was recently diagnosed with dementia‚ according to the New York Post.Edmond Bradley Solomon III a 66-year-old originally from South Carolina had traveled to the Caribbean on Royal Caribbean';s Icon of the Seas and had planned to spend the day at port in Cozumel‚ Mexico. However‚ Solomon mysteriously disappeared just minutes after getting off the ship last week.The report mentioned that Solomon had recently been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia‚ which is a specific form of dementia that affects behavior instead of memory.Savanah Miller‚ the man';s daughter‚ shared with the Post that her father ";sometimes says odd things and behaves erratically or oddly because he';s just doing what he knows how to do.";Solomon and his wife Mimi got off the ship around 1:30 p.m. on April 3 and stopped to use the restroom before Solomon went missing.When my stepmom‚ Mimi‚ came out‚ he wasnt there‚ Miller told the Post. She thought he might still be in the bathroom so she waited for him for a few minutes. He didnt come out.A member of the family who was with the couple went into the bathroom and discovered that Solomon was not there. He was reported missing around 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday‚ and a search mission was initiated around 9:00 p.m.‚ according to WCBD. Another report said that local police received a call that a taxi driver claimed to have picked up a tourist matching Solomon';s description who wanted to be taken to a road with beach access.The taxi driver said that the tourist had paid with his watch because he claimed he didn';t have any money with him.The family has now urged the community to help find Solomon. He liked to be with the people that he lovedhe was always making sure that we were safe and we were cared for no matter who it was‚ Miller said. Hes always been a fixer and someone whos just drawn to helping other people.I think its important to recognize how much time hes put into helping others and its time to give back‚ she added. I think the best thing that anyone can do is just spread the word. Start yelling and screaming. Elevate it as much as possible so that there is awareness and so everyone on the island is looking for him. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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