Reuters is a partner of Covering Climate Now. They dissemble alarmist storylines.
"The Associated Press and the New York Times, however, avoided such pitfalls. Both news organizations employed a journalistic technique known as “a truth sandwich.” A concept developed by the linguist George Lakoff and backed by media critics including Margaret Sullivan and Brian Stelter, a truth sandwich starts by stating the factual truth, then reports the false claim, then restates what’s true. The AP story began by reporting that some of the world leaders gathered at the UN “are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.” "
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"The Reuters playbook endorses the same approach but uses a different term for it, FWEF, which stands for: “State the Fact. Warn the audience they’re about to hear a lie. Explain how the lie misleads. Restate the Fact.”
https://coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-story/reporting-the-truth-when-politician...However, the truth is more prosaic. The IPCC finds no trend in floods, hurricanes are getting less, the ACE index shows no trend on intensity, and more people still die from cold, even in Australia, than heat.
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