On Pajamas Media, Art Horn informs us that there’s a definite and documented correlation between actual terrestrial climate change (a real phenomenon) and the major media’s “climate catastrophe reporting” that goes back at least twelve decades:

. . . when one looks back at the history of climate reporting, you find a remarkably consistent and recurring theme. The global temperature has cycled from cold to warm to cold to warm again over the last 120 years. The media cycles of impending climatic doom mirror the climate cycles themselves, but with a roughly ten- to fifteen-year lag. It seems whenever the world warms, the volume of global warming stories increases to match the trend. Conversely, when the climate cools the major media outlets pull on their long johns and warn us of the next ice age. However, it takes many years for the media to catch up to what the climate is actually doing.

Horn adduces mainstream media scares from 1895, 1912 (the Titanic was on everybody’s mind), 1923, 1929, 1933, 1959, the 1970s (“an ice age is a comin’!”), and the most recent media saturation of alarmist reporting on “global warming” as a threat to mankind. He notes three things we can learn from the last 120 years of media-driven climate scare reporting and concludes:

When government agencies or United Nations Climate Change conferences warn you that the climate is changing you can be sure that is true — the climate is always changing. Determining the direction is the hard part. Based on the past reporting of these changes, be it from global cooling or warming, the trend will have reversed many years earlier than reported.

Horn’s article — “MSM Inertia: What We Can Learn from 120 Years of Climate Catastrophe Reporting” — is here.