Molly Butler / Media Matters
1. CNBC’s Joe Kernan suggests that climate science is discredited, acts more insufferable than an actual fossil fuel executive on his panel
Reporting live from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on the January 23 edition of CNBC’s
Squawk Box, co-host Joe Kernan suggested that Greta Thunberg’s prominence was driven in part by “climate alarmism” and that climate science was discredited. He stated, “The prophets of doom that have been proven wrong again and again in the past. … The Malthusian bets have never paid off.” Kernan’s framing was used by Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who was on the panel, as a springboard to downplay the seriousness of the climate crisis and greenwash the Trump administration’s record on climate change.