Media bias related to environmental issues

You may also be interested in my page about The Causes and Effects of High Gas Prices, and my page about Environmental False Alarms, but the greatest distortion in environmental news coverage can be observed when the topic is Global Warming.


NYT Article Admits DDT Ban as a Cause of Bedbug Outbreak.  Unfortunately for residents of many urban areas such as New York and Philadelphia, the bedbugs are not only biting but spreading at an alarming rate.  Despite this outbreak, the mainstream media has until recently kept insisting that bedbugs developed a resistance to DDT so any emergency lifting of the EPA ban on that pesticide is unnecessary.

Andrea Mitchell:  I Thought Al Gore Settled the Global Warming Issue.  One may think that someone as well connected as long-time Washington correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell might also connect the dots.  After an unseasonably rough DC winter occurring right in the midst of the ClimateGate scandal, she would be aware of doubt being cast over the idea of manmade global warming.  But if you want evidence her mind is made up regardless of any of this...

Heartland Conference Establishes Post-Climategate Consensus.  [Scroll down]  Had the mainstream media acted responsibly, then every word spoken at the first major post-Climategate climate colloquium would have indeed built public awareness of the implausibility of manmade global warming and, consequently, any job-killing legislation, treaties or regulations designed to "control" it.  But ours is an agenda-driven MSM — brazenly toting water for a president and Hill Democrats shamelessly rolling out the Gulf-coast disaster crash-cart to reanimate their flat-lined "climate" bill.

A Phone Call from the Associated Press.  [Scroll down]  What the AP did yesterday [7/14/2010] is yet another example of how low journalism has sunk in the United States.  The AP journalist seems to be dialing around to engineering experts hoping to get the answer they want to support a political position determined to stop fossil fuel use in the United States.

The Left and Its Talking Points.  The Journolist story demonstrates active, covert collaboration among leftists to plant political themes in the media.  Long-time listeners of conservative talk radio are aware of audio montages where old-line media talking heads repeat verbatim a set of words that can't be anything other than shared talking points.  A perfect example was the 2000-era Dick Cheney "gravitas" showcased by Rush Limbaugh.  It's one thing to ask how proper reporting of Obama might have changed the outcome of the election.  I'll ask a bigger question:  Did old-line media journalists share talking points to prop up the global warming issue?

More about the JournoList scandal.

When Good Trees Go Bad.  In its attempt to put the best possible spin on the latest whitewash of the global warming con artists, the New York Times inadvertently provides readers with this gem:  ["]... The C.R.U. researchers, leaders in that type of work, were trying in 1999 to produce a long-term temperature chart that could be used in a United Nations publication.  But they were dogged by a problem:  Since around 1960, for mysterious reasons, trees have stopped responding to temperature increases in the same way they apparently did in previous centuries.["]

Politicizing the climate science debate has boosted alarmism.  [Scroll down]  Those of us who do not support the idea that human greenhouse gas emissions are dangerously warming the planet are usually condemned by main stream media as being ultra-conservative, ill-informed, anti-environmentalists, when the press acknowledges us at all.  As a consequence, many in the public still regard the climate debate as a left vs. right wing struggle, with supposedly greedy industrialists on the right trying to sway governments against the concerns of supposedly caring environmentalists on the left.

Governments still promote climate fears despite contradictory advice.  [Scroll down]  A few years ago, an editorial pages editor of a major eastern Canadian newspaper told me candidly that he didn't cover both sides of the climate debate because "our advertisers wouldn't like it".  At first I thought he just meant that crisis sells media and advertisers were more likely to pay for expensive ads if the periodical had high circulation numbers.  But a look at the paper told me more — major international corporations have identified reducing 'greenhouse gas emissions' as an important marketing tool and so often incorporate it into their advertising so as to appear virtuous...

An Excellent Example of Media Morass on Climate.  Here are headlines from two stories about the same peer-reviewed study.
Reuters:  "Melting mountains put millions at risk in Asia: study"
Nature: "Global warming's impact on Asia's rivers overblown"
I'll go with Nature on this one.

Gagging on Green Garbage.  The "East Anglia Event Horizon" occurred on Nov 19, 2009 and that day will live in infamy in the honest history of science.  Yet in the nine months since the 'Climate-Gate' disclosure there has NOT BEEN ONE MENTION of this event or any conflicting viewpoints to the AGW orthodoxy presented in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics.  Not a single letter to the editor in opposition, not a single mention of ANY other possible climate forcing factors.  This is not science, this is despicable political advocacy.

Are Climate Alarmists losing the Mainstream Media?  In the past week, two mainstream media giants have apparently recognized that the debate over manmade global warming is far from over.  On Monday [5/24/2010], the NY Times broke with years of blatant warmist bias in reporting that Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons. ... Now Newsweek has joined the newly aware, but with a dash more honesty.

Political, Media, and Bureaucratic Distortions of Weather and Climate.  Mainstream television has extreme or severe weather reports when they are actually reporting natural events.  Hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards are all natural events and warnings for potential loss of life are commendable, but the focus creates a false impression.  It reinforces the false IPCC claims of more severe weather with global warming.

Climate Depot's Marc Morano Takes on ABC News' Dan Harris.  We've all sort of known the media have been in the tank for the global warming alarmist movement.  For evidence, look no further than a March 2008 segment that aired on ABC "World News" attacking leading climate skeptic, University of Virginia environmental scientist Professor Emeritus Fred Singer.

The Problems with Al Gore:  [Scroll down slowly]  Al Gore may not know what he's talking about, but he's not alone.  The world is full of ignorant people.  As a college professor, I interact constantly with students, many of whom are very concerned with global warming.  But in my interactions I have invariably found that the more science a student knows, the more skeptical they are of the standard global warming alarmist scenario.  Students majoring in engineering or physics have some appreciation for the scientific method and the uncertainties involved in understanding and predicting climate change. ... Students who buy into global warming alarmism are almost always from non-technical majors such as journalism.  They can't think quantitatively, critically, or analytically.  They have beliefs, but no interest in or appreciation for facts.

Hit Job:  ABC News Attempts to Align Climate Change Skeptics with White Supremacists.  At first, Michael Mann, a Penn State professor and a central figure in the Climategate scandal, but best known for his discredited "hockey stick graph" didn't like being mocked in a YouTube video.  Now Mann is alleging he's a victim of hate groups.

Leadership.  [The mainstream media] report the ideas and expert evidence created by those seeking or holding power.  They also produce their own expert evidence to support their stories.  There is no other way to explain the mainstream media failure to report on the Climategate fiasco — indeed, as the emails revealed, reporters at major newspapers and media outlets were actively involved.

American Fossil Fuels:  The New Alternative Energy Source.  [Scroll down]  While Americans obsess about the latest spill in the gulf, Nigeria announces casually the 14,000 tons of oil lost in its ecosystems this past year due to accidents and sabotage.  That number has increased dramatically in the last few years, and there is little indication that any sort of public outcry will reduce or even modify energy extraction in a major producer such as the country of Nigeria.

Gullible Media Panicking Over Climate.  Media service to weather or climatic panics goes back more than a century.  One particularly amusing anecdote is the Los Angeles Times, which was among many outlets seizing on the fear of frozen stuff on the heels of the Titanic's sinking at the hands of an iceberg, digging up an academic to say that the expanding ice would soon consume us all.

When White House Correspondents Go Green, Follow the Money.  In the Politico today [4/30/2010], there's a story about how the Natural Resources Defense Council is advising the White House Correspondents' Association on how to "go green" with their annual dinner.  They seem to be taking this very seriously.

Global warming follies.  I use Yahoo as the home page for my internet browser.  This exposes me to the daily global warming propaganda Yahoo publishes, with correspondingly outrageous, inflammatory headlines.  These types of articles are specifically selected to frighten us into acceding to the pro-warming political forces' demands, including surrendering our freedoms and our prosperity.

Networks Hide the Decline in Credibility of Climate Change Science.  [Scroll down]  It took ABC, CBS and NBC 14 days to even mention the ClimateGate e-mail controversy.  When they couldn't get away with it any longer they downplayed its threat to the credibility of the global warming movement.  CBS's Wyatt Andrews defended alarmists against accusations of "fraud" and "deception" saying "if that's true, it's a fraud adopted by most of the world's leading scientists..." ... The networks aired more than six times as many global warming alarmism reports than they did stories mentioning any of the problems with climate science research (86 to 13).  ABC and NBC both aired stories about Arctic photographers that indicated their pictures were proof of global warming, even though they were not part of any scientific analysis.

Matthews Urges James Cameron To Trash 'Dangerous' Global Warming Deniers in 'Right Wing Media'.  Chris Matthews spent an entire segment of Monday's Hardball sucking up to director James Cameron as the MSNBC host prodded the "Avatar" director to trash those in the "right wing media" who deny global warming, like Glenn Beck, as "very dangerous to this country."  Cameron, who was on to plug the DVD version (coming soon to a landfill near you) of his pro-greenie fantasy flick, warned the Earth was being imperiled by not only the United States but also a rising middle class in places like India and China, and urged viewers to combat the "professional deniers" like Beck who are thwarting his fight against the "clear and present danger" of climate change.

Why can't we find a Climategate summary like this in US Media.  The level of coverage in America regarding questions raised by the Climategate scandal and other related revelations is a scandal.  The Euro-media has been on the story from the beginning and surprisingly, is telling the story in a mostly objective manner.  Spiegel Online has an exhaustive, 8-page review of events and discoveries since the Climategate emails were revealed.  It shows a climate science community in near chaos and dispirited over the fact that so much data was fabricated or deliberately ignored.

Climategate:  Failure of a Blind and Biased Mainstream Media.  It's beyond belief that the mainstream media can't see the devastating importance of the emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) known as Climategate.  The blindness cancels the claim they're society's watchdog. ... The mainstream media willfully ignore the massive deception just as they have the political exploitation of climate science.  In fact, most led or joined attacks on scientists who dared to point out the problems.

Mainstream Media Ignores Climategate.  [Scroll down]  What I have also noticed since the revelations in November 2009 that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change data had been deliberately falsified to justify claims of "global warming" is the return in the media of the usual idiotic claims that "global warming" is causing this and that.  The Economist, an otherwise respected news magazine, had a recent issue in which it essentially said it didn't care how much evidence there was that no global warming was or is occurring.

New Global Warming Alarmism from LA Times.  We have now reached the apex of "heads I win, tails you lose" global warming-alarmism.  In his April 18 op-ed for the LA Times, author Eli Kintisch warned that "the world is running short on air pollution, and if we continue to cut back on smoke pouring forth from industrial smokestacks," global warming consequences could be "profound."  Having painted themselves into an environmental conundrum, Kintisch and climate scientists are left debating how they are going to proceed with sulfate aerosols — a natural and anthropogenic air pollutant believed to have cooling properties on the earth's atmosphere.

Newsweek Helps Energy Secretary Chu Push Cap-and-Trade.  At Newsweek, the global warming crusade remains an important mission.  The magazine's latest push came in an interview by CNN contributor Fareed Zakharia of Energy Secretary Steven Chu.  Zakaria threw softballs to Chu throughout the article, as Newsweek showed it was simply a matter of when — not if — the administration should continue to pursue a drastic environmental agenda.

EEEEK!, Reports Newsweek.  Just in time for Earth Day at your local supermarket newsstand, Newsweek has published "100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear," a shrill, apocalyptic, scaremongering photo album of favorite hot spots the world over that are threatened with destruction by global warming.

Media Failure: Global Warming Edition.  American newspapers and television news bureaus are staffed with people for whom skepticism of the U.N. and politicized climate scientists is tantamount to heresy.

Finally BBC asks:  Are we maybe a bit biased on 'climate change'?  [Scroll down]  For example, there's this from a recent edition of the children's news programme Newsround, explaining — just in case kids got any funny ideas to the contrary — that the current snow showers are nothing to celebrate but are in fact yet another sure sign of man's evil.

American Enviro-Media Still MIA.  A sampling of stories, since the Climategate story broke in November, that discredit "consensus" global warming science and the UN IPCC — many from British media.

AP:  Authoritarian Propaganda.  The wire service "reports" that skepticism is the bane of science.

Global warming science implodes overseas:  American media silent.  The revelations have been nothing short of jaw dropping.  Dozens — yes dozens — of claims made in the IPCC 2007 report on climate change that was supposed to represent the "consensus" of 2500 of the world's climate scientists have been shown to be bogus, or faulty, or not properly vetted, or simply pulled out of thin air.  We know this because newspapers in Great Britain are doing their job...

The Great Unraveling.  Compounding the headaches for warm-mongers is a probe being launched by the British Parliament into the Climate Research Unit e-mail scandal. ... This isn't terribly fresh news, having been announced on Jan. 22 by Parliament.  But news that casts doubt on global warming tends to move slowly, if at all, in the U.S. media.  If not for the foreign press, the inquiry would be virtually unknown in this country.

MSNBC's Ratigan Blames 'Snowpocalypse' on Global Warming.  With Washington, D.C. buried beneath at least 20 inches of snow, and with more in the forecast, common sense would suggest global warming alarmists look elsewhere to make the argument to raise awareness for their concerns.  But no, Dylan Ratigan thinks it's ridiculous to suggest all the snowfall totals could cast doubt on the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

Bill Nye 'The Science Guy':  Denying Climate Change 'Unpatriotic,' 'Inappropriate'.  Challenging someone's patriotism is a pretty hefty charge to level in the political arena, based on the response when Barack Obama's patriotism was challenged during the 2008 election cycle.  However, there seems to be a different set of rules when it comes to questioning the authenticity of the manmade global warming argument in the wake of record-setting snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic.

House of Peers:  "Climate change" is not only a scientific scandal but also a massive journalistic failure.

Public Media Bias and Climate Change.  CBC science is almost the exclusive playground of the leftist environmentalist David Suzuki.  Biases, distortions, and false information are in evidence throughout his series, "The Nature of Things". ... McDonald has no post-high school education.  He has honorary degrees but they're condemnation of the granting universities. ... Lack of credentials is only an issue when you disagree with anthropogenic global warming.

Global warming and the 'settled science' baloney.  While not faulting journalists and politicians for their stupendous ignorance when discussing most scientific subjects, I do condemn their utter lack of coherence concerning basic scientific definitions, processes, and principles.  Specifically, the chattering classes have no appreciation of the following truisms:  settled science comes only in the form of physical laws while the causes behind specific phenomena are sometimes never definitively settled.  And the more complex the system being observed, the longer it takes to reach a consensus about the causal mechanisms.

The Global Ostrich Press.  [Scroll down]  Like all emotional appeals without reason, the editorial started with an ominous warning:  "Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security."  Ignoring evidence to the contrary, the editors looked down from the world's ivory towers and proclaimed to the peasants that "science is complex but the facts are clear."

Watchdog smacks Times for bogus climate claim.  An advertising campaign touting the depth and quality of the Times newspaper's environment coverage has been slapped by an industry watchdog for inaccuracy.  The paper has agreed to modify the advertisements, which are based on a false climate change claim.

Global cooling documented in last decade.  The mainstream media is reporting the World Meteorological Organization's assessment of global average temperatures asserting this decade is "the warmest on record," without mentioning the WMO data actually documents the United States and Canada experienced cooler-than-average conditions since 2000.  The reports circulating from the U.N.'s climate summit in Copenhagen also don't mention scientific climate data that suggest the globe has cooled in the last 10 years.

Move Over Polar Bear, the Arctic Fox is the New Furry Face of Global Warming.  On Wednesday's [12/16/2009] Today show, the co-hosts of the 10am hour, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, invited on David Mizejewski of the Wildlife Federation to participate in that talk-show time honored tradition of the animal segment but viewers couldn't enjoy the cuddly creatures without getting a dose of global warming alarmism.

The shocking lesson from the climate scandal.  With the outrageous news of deceit, fraud and suppression of opposing evidence by top climate change "scientists," many conservatives had expected to see the story unfold a little differently (with actual reporting and investigating).  Global warming, aka, climate change has been heralded as the preeminent story of our time.  As such, the exposing of scientific fraud in the ultimate "science" movement would have made screaming headline news in a sane world.

Climategate in the Classroom?  The mainstream media has for too long dominated the information being disseminated about global warming.  Some people have long-term loyalty to television news programs, newspapers, or magazines.  Any opinion that varies from their source is unacceptable.  Some people have been so completely indoctrinated with the climate catastrophe story, they can't stand to hear anything else.  For them my story of global warming will be met with closed doors and deaf ears.

CBS Slams Exxon for Not Drilling More.  In stunning turn around, CBS laments the fact ExxonMobil is not putting up more oil rigs in scenic Alaska and the Gulf Coast.

Climategate:  How the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science.  [Scroll down]  But in the case of "Climate Change", the MSM has been caught with its trousers down.  The reason it has been so ill-equipped to report on this scandal is because almost all of its Environmental Correspondents and Environmental Editors are parti pris members of the Climate-Fear Promotion lobby.  Most of their contacts (and information sources) work for biased lobby groups like Greenpeace and the WWF, or conspicuously pro-AGW government departments and Quangos such as the Carbon Trust.  How can they bring themselves to report on skullduggery at Hadley Centre when the scientists involved are the very ones whose work they have done most to champion and whose pro-AGW views they share?

Media Ignore Climate Science Scandal.  Media bias is one thing.  But we have just witnessed one of the greatest scandals of modern science, and it barely made the front page of the New York Times.

Andrew Revkin Spins 'ClimateGate' Story.  Poor Andrew Revkin can't help himself.  The New York Times reporter and Dot Earth blogger is so intellectually invested in the environmental movement that he simply cannot report bad news about the movement's extremists without spinning it.

Climategate:  how they all squirmed.  Among the many great amusements of the Climategate scandal are the myriad imaginative excuses being offered by the implicated scientists and their friends in the MSM as to why this isn't a significant story.

Hot air under radar.  It should be known as "climategate" and should be a front-page story in every newspaper worth the name and the lead item on television and radio news throughout the world.  Instead it has generally been ignored and often deliberately covered up.

What Story?  If you rely on the lavishly remunerated "climate correspondents" of the big newspapers and networks, you'll know nothing about the Climate Research Unit scandals — just the business-as-usual drivel about Boston being underwater by 2011.

Comedy Central Scoops Network News on Climate-Gate Scandal.  ABC didn't cover it.  CBS didn't either.  And NBC apparently wouldn't go near it.  The network news broadcasts have ignored a growing scandal over evidence of a potential climate cover-up — and now they've even been scooped by the fake news at Comedy Central.

12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of ClimateGate Scandal.  Even as Copenhagen looms, broadcast news ignores e-mails suggesting warming alarmists 'manipulated' data, conspired to destroy information and thwarted peer reviews.

'Science Is Dying':  What Media Are Really Missing About ClimateGate.  While most global warming-obsessed media have either ignored or downplayed the significance of the growing ClimateGate scandal, the Wall Street Journal has been on top of this story since it first broke two weeks ago.  On Thursday [12/3/2009], Journal editorial page deputy editor Daniel Henninger penned a piece that should be an absolute must-read for all the so-called journalists in America that have either intentionally boycotted this controversy or have participated in hiding its seriousness from the public.

NYT's Friedman on ClimateGate.  [Thomas] Friedman has been hoping for some sort of forced action on global warming for several years now.  On ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 9, 2006, he boldly announced his preference for the future of U.S. energy policy.  "Charlie, if they [Iran] cut off oil and oil went to $100 a barrel — that would make my day, because the sooner we go to $100 a barrel, the sooner we're going to have everyone in America driving a plug-in hybrid car fueled by corn and ethanol," Friedman said.

Climategate gaining traction — even in New Jersey.  The layer of ice that has formed in the main-stream media over the Climategate story is finally cracking.  The largest newspaper in perhaps the bluest of states, New Jersey, has run on its front page a Politico column titled "Climategate Distracts at Copenhagen."  The very liberal-leaning Newark Star-Ledger had put the deep freeze on Climategate for three weeks since the scandal broke, not breathing a word on the subject.

Gore falsifies the record.  Could those carefully vetted journalists who are allowed an audience with the Great Green Guru please — for once — confront him with his exaggerations, distortions, fake evidence and absurd predictions?  I've done this myself over this issue, and can guarantee you will get a far funnier and more interesting reaction than another of his sermons.

Gore is grossly careless or a barefaced liar.  Al Gore has studied the Climategate emails with his typically rigorous eye and dismissed them as mere piffle.  No way did these leaked emails discredit his global warming crusade, he assured Slate magazine.  And you'd trust him, wouldn't you? ... The fact is you have been lied to by many people for a long time, and the media has betrayed you by not holding the liars to account.  Too much is now at stake for us to tolerate the stifling of debate for an instant longer.

Did someone mention ClimateGate?

Why Newsweek is the Punch Line.  [Scroll down]  For example, the November 9th edition of Newsweek (The Thinking Man's Thinking Man) calls Al Gore a "prophet" several times, in multiple articles.  Newsweek contributor Sharon Begley writes glowingly of Gore, praising him for everything from his optimism to his spirituality in her article The Evolution of an Eco-Prophet.  She calls him "fact-filled," largely ignoring the growing scientific dissent with his claims, and essentially admits her unquestioning faith in the "eco-prophet":  "One has absolutely no trouble — none, zero, nil — believing him," she writes.

Newsweek Admits 74 Percent of Gore Letters Are Critical, But Fails to Publish Any.  Newsweek has done it again:  a few weeks after acknowledging half its letters were critical of Joe Biden (but publishing none of them), they proclaimed their Al Gore cover was unpopular.  Forty-six percent of their letter writers wrote on the subject of Gore, and 74 percent of them were critical.  Still, Newsweek ran only positive letters.

Global cooling was announced in Newsweek April 28, 1978.  "There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production — with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth.  The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now."

Unscientific American.  This month's cover story, "A Plan for a Sustainable Future:  How to get all energy from wind, water and solar power by 2030," is a prime example.  Authors Mark Z. Jacobsen and Mark A. Delucchi are respectively, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford and a research scientist at UC Davis — which makes you wonder what's going on in academia these days.  The article is so full of half-truths, absurd omissions and blue-sky fantasy that it is hard to know where to begin.

Newsweek Editor Calls Al Gore 'An Eco-Prophet'.  "Al Gore's views on climate change are advancing as rapidly as the phenomenon itself."  Such was Newsweek science editor Sharon Begley's sub-headline of her proselytizing piece "The Evolution Of An Eco-Prophet."  Fortunately for the Goracle's loyal followers, Begley didn't ask him how the planet could possibly have cooled the past eleven years despite his warnings about the plague "carbon dioxide."

Media Cool To Global Warming.  Can it be true?  Are the liberal media actually awakening to the climate reality that manmade global warming is a hoax perpetrated by environmental fear-mongers?  Marc Morano of Climate Depot thinks so.  He is convinced that 2009 will be remembered as the tipping point in the coverage of global warming, and he provides plenty of evidence to support that conclusion.

Cheers and Jeers for the Post.  On climate alarmism, the media and academia have sold out in the most wholehearted fashion one can imagine in a free society, and there should be no gratitude but instead continued exposure of their folly and shame.

Greenhouse Gases at Highest Level Ever.  Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday [11/23/2009].

The Editor says...
 It is the policy of this web site to quote no more than one sentence from any Associated Press story, which is just as well because the story above, in my opinion, is a pack of lies.  In the second sentence, the reporter mentions that "detailed records" of greenhouse gas levels have been kept since 1998.  That's not true; measurements of carbon dioxide levels go back almost 200 years.  During the previous two centuries, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have been much higher than they are now, with no adverse effects.  Moreover, the writer doesn't even mention water vapor, which accounts for about 95 percent of the greenhouse effect.

Cooling Down the Cassandras.  The [New York] Times reported that "scientists" — all of them? — say the 11 years of temperature stability has "no bearing," none, on long-term warming.  Some scientists say "cool stretches are inevitable."  Others say there may be growth of Arctic sea ice, but the growth will be "temporary." ... Warnings about cataclysmic warming increase in stridency as evidence of warming becomes more elusive.

U.S. Media Ignoring About Face by Leading Global Warming Proponent.  Imagine if the Pope suddenly announced that the Catholic Church had been wrong for centuries about prohibiting priests from marrying. Would that be considered big news?  Of course.  And yet something like that has happened in the field of global warming in which a major scientist has announced that the world, in contrast to his previous belief, is actually cooling.

Did someone mention global cooling?

NY Times targets renewable energy.  Just as congress is set to tax fossil fuels out of the U.S. economy, the New York Times has reasserted its utterly foolish demand that we tear out existing hydroelectric dams — the dams that provide most of our renewable energy in the form of water-generated electricity.

Excuse Me, Your Leftism is Showing.  On March 2nd there was a demonstration in Washington D.C.  It was billed as the largest demonstration for green power/global warming awareness/stop dirty coal/let's all go live in a tepee, ever held.  It was attended by — are you ready for the number? — 2,500 people.  That was the largest one ever!  This demonstration was covered by every major television and news service.  No station or alleged newspaper gave any coverage to opposing opinions.  Ironically there was a blizzard that day another fact which, to the best of my knowledge, was not noted by any major news outlet.

House's global warming bill:  $8B.  It will cost nearly $8 billion over the next decade to pay for the expanded federal bureaucracy needed to combat global warming under a bill passed by the House of Representatives, a report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says.

The Editor says...
 Please note that $8 billion is just the cost of the bureaucracy, not including the additional cost of energy (taxes) that would result from the Cap and Trade law.

Global Cooling Report:  The Weather News You Didn't See.  A list of 100 recent news items about global cooling.

Anthropogenic Global Warming?  Not So Fast.  Proof that the science is not, in fact, settled, can be seen by looking at the controversies within the ACS, APS, and AGU.  The growing dissent at these organizations is major news.  Yet as far as I can detect there has not been any acknowledgment of this development in the mainstream media.

Journalists protest Global Warming spin cycle.  Even journalists are beginning to revolt at tactics the government is now using to spin the Global Warming myth.  Controversy erupted this week at the World Conference of Science Journalists over the National Science Foundation's "underwriting" of media projects.  It turns out that the NSF, which is heavily invested in propagating the Global Warming party line, has been quietly producing content for news outlets, content which the casual observer might not recognize for the propaganda it is.



Examples of unmitigated bias:

Big Tropical Storms in Atlantic Hit 1,000-Year High.  The people of U.S. Gulf Coast have felt unusually battered by big storms during the past few years.  Now, it turns out their instincts are right.  A new report in the scientific journal Nature indicates that the last decade has seen, on average, more frequent hurricanes than any time in the last 1,000 years.

The Editor says...
 Wow!  That's astonishing news, especially since there are no detailed records of such things before World War II.  National Geographic (dot com) says, "Accurate records of hurricane activity date back 60 years for the Atlantic Ocean and the western Northern Pacific Ocean, but only about 30 years elsewhere."*

Meat creates half of all greenhouse gases.  Climate change emissions from meat production are far higher than currently estimated, according to a controversial new study that will fuel the debate on whether people should eat fewer animal products to help the environment.

The Editor says...
 People have been eating meat (and loving it!) for thousands of years, and it has never been seen as a problem by any rational person.

Gore deserves honorary degree from UT.  Several colleagues and myself in UT's Department of Sociology write in support of Gore's stance and the university's decision to award him an honorary degree.  The scientific evidence for anthropogenic global climate change may not be unequivocal, but few independent climate scientists doubt that climate changes are evident and human caused.

More about Al Gore.

Lizards succumb to global warming.  By 2080, global warming could result in one-fifth of the world's lizard species becoming extinct, a global study has found.

The Editor says...
 Without reading beyond the first sentence, I found plenty of bias indicators:  (1) The headline announces an event that hasn't happened, in order to get you to read the article.  (2) How many times have you read, "global warming could result in..." something or other by the end of this century?  Any number of things could happen.  (3) Any time a new "study" comes to some shocking conclusion, it's a safe bet that the "study" was funded by someone with a political axe to grind.  (4) Lizards have been around a long time, and are unlikely to be affected by a temperature change of one degree per century.  (5) The people who are so distressed about animals being wiped out by "climate change" are the same people who preach "survival of the fittest" in public schools.

The E.P.A. Announces a New Rule on Polluters.  The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a final rule on Thursday [5/14/2010] for regulating major emitters of greenhouse gases, like coal-fired power plants, under the Clean Air Act.

The Editor says...
 Beginning in the headline, the New York Times declares carbon dioxide to be a pollutant, when in reality it is not.  The article starts out with a mention of "greenhouse gases", but there is only one "greenhouse gas" component that the new EPA rules (or the news media) address, as far as I know, and that is carbon dioxide.


Is EU is Going Too Green with Light Bulb Ban?  There must have been a twitch in the universe on Wednesday evening [9/2/2009] as NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams — who has a history of highlighting concerns of interest to the environmentalist left — actually ran a story highlighting complaints by some Europeans that the "going green" movement is going too far as the European Union is banning the use of old-fashioned lightbulbs...

'Nightly News' Brings Alarmism Back.  Anchor Brian Williams introduced an "Our Planet" segment by reminding viewers that the Obama administration was remaining active on the issue of climate change. ... Then chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson went back to the well for an old standby — that polar bears and penguins were threatened by the thinning ice attributed to no other than climate change. ... Her report didn't include any voice of dissent, though many exist.

Uncertain climate.  A person needn't be a buffoon or political hack to be skeptical of global warming.  That would be news to The Washington Post's news desk, however.  A Post article on May 19 falsely reported that there is a "consensus" among scientists and a growing portion of the American public that human carbon emissions are causing a dangerous, long-term increase in worldwide temperatures.  The facts, overwhelmingly, show no such consensus.

Embellishing exaggerations.  Before you paddle off for higher ground, remember Mr. Gore, a Democrat whose education and training are in government, politics and the law, not science, has been known to embellish from time to time and leave out important facts.  He does this to raise the volume of his alarmism to attract "journalists" forever on the lookout for fodder for apocalyptic reporting.  This symbiosis is most closely replicated in nature by farm animals and dung beetles.

Did ABC Fabricate Projections of an Underwater Southern Florida?  Yesterday [6/16/2009], the White House released an over-the-top climate report, meant to bolster waning public support (through fear-mongering) for the administration's disastrous carbon taxation scheme.  But as overly-alarming as was the document itself, its portrayal by ABC's crack meteorologist Sam Champion on today's Good Morning America may have redefined hysterical reporting.

ABC Global Warming Special Makes Up Future, But It's Not 'Sci-Fi'.  The world is about to end, or at least that's according to ABC's "Good Morning America."  The June 2 segment promoted a new special called "Earth 2100."  The program follows Lucy, a girl born in 2009, and her dramatic story about how if we don't take drastic measures immediately climate change will cause droughts, floods, mass migration, and starvation.  This may sound straight from a science-fiction movie, but "Good Morning America" went to great lengths to assure viewers this wasn't science fiction and that by airing this series they were changing journalism.  Bob Woodruff, host of the special, called making up what will happen in the future "a different kind of journalism."  The segment quoted him saying, "not a prediction of what will happen, but what might happen."

Climate Conspiracy.  The US Energy Secretary, a member of the President's Cabinet, has seriously suggested the world should paint its roads and rooftops white to forestall "global warming" and Save The Planet.  The media have widely, solemnly, and uncritically reported this notion.  Few have verified whether it makes any sense.

'World News' Airs Catastrophic Global Warming story for Earth Day.  It just wouldn't be Earth Day without a catastrophic global warming segment from the network news, so ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore delivered just that April 22.  Blakemore warned viewers of "World News with Charles Gibson" that carbon emissions were causing disastrous changes in the air and the sea and blamed the United States in his one-sided report, even though the U.S. recently dropped to second place in global carbon output.

Deliberate misrepresentation.  The New York Times guidelines for staff writers on "Journalistic Ethics" begin by stating the principles that all journalists should respect:  impartiality and neutrality; integrity; and avoidance of conflicts of interest.  Andrew Revkin's front-page article on Friday, 24 April, 2009, falsely alleging that a coalition of energy corporations had for many years acted like tobacco corporations, misrepresenting advice from its own scientists about the supposed threat of "global warming", offends grievously against all of these principles.

NBC Affiliate Meteorologist Rips MSNBC for Apocalyptic Global Warming Special.  NBC Universal and its networks have been criticized for the global warming alarmism it parades on a regular basis.  However, now the criticism is coming from its own affiliates.  Prior to its April 26 airing on MSNBC, shows on NBC had been promoting the first part of the climate special "Future Earth" — an MSNBC program that used computer animation to show the possibilities of a polar icecap melting.  That prompted Bill Steffen, a meteorologist for NBC's Grand Rapids, Mich. affiliate, to call out MSNBC for that special.

It's Alternative Media That's Cooling Global Warming Hysteria.  The latest Rasmussen poll reports that the lowest number of voters ever polled —one-in-three —believe that global warming is caused by human activity.  That's an astonishing figure, especially considering the all-out green propaganda assault the mainstream media (MSM) exposes the public to on a daily basis. ... So despite a MSM that spoon feeds its audience the latest alarmist [nonsense] about how manmade CO2 kills polar bears, threatens coastal cities and islands, incubates all manner of pestilence and so on and so on, the number of people actually buying into their still-unsubstantiated carbo-chondria continues to shrink.

They Think You're Stupid.  Yesterday, the BBC ran an article with the headline "Earth warming faster than thought."  Yet, as we increasingly see in this context ... the piece itself offers no evidence of any such thing.  It merely reveals claims of impacts that modelers project would result from a large warming — impacts greater than previously asserted by others, as is how things work when it comes to global warming.

Media Credibility, Not Ice Caps, In Meltdown.  Eco-warriors and media hype aside, the fact is, as we head into 2009, that the world's ice mass has been expanding not contracting.  Which will surprise evening news junkies fed a diet of polar bears floating about on ice floes and snow shelves falling into the oceans.  But if a whole series of reports on ice growth in the Arctic, the Antarctic and among glaciers are right, then it is truth in the mainstream media (MSM) that's in meltdown not the polar ice caps.

Increased Number Think Global Warming Is "Exaggerated".  Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated.  This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.

Houston Sees Record Low Ozone.  The Houston metropolitan area, often cited as having the nation's most polluted air, exceeded federal ozone standards for a record-low 16 days in 2008.  The official tally from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality contradicts a recent claim by the Houston Chronicle that "the region's goal of consistently healthy air remains elusive."

54% Say Media Hype Global Warming Dangers.  Fifty-four percent (54%) of U.S. voters say the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is.  Only 21% say the media present an accurate picture, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.  Thirteen percent (13%) think the media make climate change appear to be better than it truly is.  Twelve percent (12%) don't have an opinion.

When the Warmest in History Isn't.  Here's another reason why people don't trust newspapers. ... When it comes to global warming, newspapers play up stories that reinforce the prevalent the-sky-is-falling belief that global warming is human-caused and catastrophic.  But if a study or scientist does not portend the end of the world as we know it, it rarely rates as news.

Pessimistic Reporting, Optimistic Data.  Washington Post correspondant Juliet Eilperin, in her 12-26-08 report entitled "New climate change estimates more pessimistic," dutifully surveys the latest bleak findings of the climate change community. ... Three years ago what NASA quantified as an alarming loss of annual ice loss from Greenland was easily demonstrated at that time to be an insignificant loss, and today NASA's updated data appears to suggest the annual rate of global polar ice loss has actually decreased since then.

Top TV Networks Spread False Arctic Sea Ice Scare.  High-profile media reports predicting the North Pole would lose its ice cover failed to materialize in 2008, as less Arctic sea ice melted than in 2007 and open water came nowhere near the North Pole.  On the July 28, 2008 NBC Nightly News, reporter Anne Thompson warned ominously of ice loss in the Arctic.  "This summer, some scientists say that ice could retreat so dramatically that open water covers the North Pole, so much so that you could sail across it."

Media Elite vs Informed Readers.  A most ill-informed, intemperate editorial on energy policy sadly was published in the Kansas City Star this weekend, ... but thanks to the market-based, democratizing power of the internet, so-called elite media opinion can more easily be exposed for the absurdity it can sometimes be.

BBC abandons 'impartiality' on warming.  Londoners might have been startled last Monday [1/26/2009] to see a giant mock-up of a polar bear on an iceberg, floating on the Thames outside the Palace of Westminster.  They might not have been so surprised to learn, first, that this was a global warming propaganda stunt and, second, that the television company behind it is part-owned by the BBC.

Sam Champion Uses Freezing Cold to Tout Global Warming.  On Thursday's "Good Morning America," weatherman and global warming alarmist Sam Champion slipped some reassuring words about the validity of climate change into his report on the bone chilling temperatures hitting much of the country.  After admitting that NASA had declared 2008 to be the coldest year since 2000, he added, "But they [NASA] caution this was caused in part by a cooling La Nina in the pacific and warn global warming is still playing an important part in our changing climate."

'Today' Begins Annual Global Warming Scare Week.  The full "Today" show cast went to "The Ends of the Earth," as a part of NBC Universal's "Green Week," all in an effort to, once again, do the bidding of the likes of Al Gore, to create hysteria about global warming.  With live reports from Matt Lauer worrying about reefs off the coast of Belize, Meredith Vieira fearful about drought conditions in Australia, Ann Curry watching the snow caps melt on Mt. Kilimanjaro and Al Roker troubled by glacier extinction in Iceland, the cast pushed the green agenda throughout Monday's "Today" show.

Let's clear up that Mt. Kilimanjaro business before going any further...
 Global Warming and Mt. Kilimanjaro.  [Scroll down]  Climate activists claim the receding ice is evidence of the need for developed countries to reduce carbon output.  Actually, the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro have been receding since 1890, according to research by G. Kaser, et al., published in the International Journal of Climatology (2004).  They note that when Ernest Hemingway published "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" in 1936, the mountain had already lost more than half its surface ice area in the previous 56 years.  This is more than it has lost in the 70 years since.

Did NBC Risk Employee Lives in a Green Agenda Stunt?  NBC's Ann Curry aborted her quest to find proof of global warming at the peak of Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro.  But at about a half mile shy of her goal, she did find proof that sub-zero degree temperatures and thin, low oxygen concentration air might do a 52 year old woman and her crew serious harm, particularly when altitude safety rules take the back seat to ideology.

When 'green' is shorthand for environmental idiocy:  Consider the recent "lights out" campaign … the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) quickly called it an amazing success.  Newspapers around the world dutifully wrote feel-good stories about how engaged environmentalists celebrated as the lights went out around the world.  Nobody, it seemed, wanted to spoil the party by pointing that the event was immensely futile, that it highlighted a horrible metaphor, or that it caused much higher overall pollution.

Networks Wrong On Global Warming Again; Arctic Ice Still There.  So much for the media hype about Arctic ice disappearing this summer.  Less than three months ago, NBC's Anne Thompson was warning ominously of ice loss.  "But this summer, some scientists say that ice could retreat so dramatically that open water covers the North Pole, so much so that you could sail across it."  Both are still with us — the ice and the hype.  According to a September 16 National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) report, such predictions were off by 1.74 million square miles.

12 Facts about Global Climate Change That You Won't Read in the Popular Press.  [1] Temperatures have been cooling since 2002, even as carbon dioxide has continued to rise.  [2] Carbon dioxide is a trace gas and by itself will produce little warming.  Also, as CO2 increases, the incremental warming is less, as the effect is logarithmic so the more CO2, the less warming it produces.  [3] CO2 has been totally uncorrelated with temperature over the last decade, and significantly negative since 2002.  [4] CO2 is not a pollutant, but a naturally occurring gas.  Together with chlorophyll and sunlight, it is an essential ingredient in photosynthesis and is, accordingly, plant food.

Global Warming Censored.  Global warming crusader Al Gore repeatedly claims the climate change "debate's over."  It isn't, but the news media clearly agree with him.  Global warming skeptics rarely get any say on the networks, and when their opinions are mentioned it is often with barbs like "cynics" or "deniers" thrown in to undermine them.  Consistently viewers are being sent only one message from ABC, CBS and NBC:  global warming is an environmental catastrophe and it's mankind's fault.

"The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980.  In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising.  Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980."

Warmist hysteria intensifies as temperatures plunge.  The willingness of media outlets to offer self-evident tripe in the face of both the data of the past decade and the immediate experience of people in their daily lives right now has to be considered a form of hysteria.  Both the Associated Press and the newspapers which collectively own it are in serious economic trouble, with substantial layoffs accomplished and likely to be repeated, and questions about their survivability evident to everyone.  Instead of focusing on improving performance and survivability, the organs putting forth this claptrap jeopardize their already shaky reputations.  It is suicide by propaganda.

Biased Media's New Bailiwick:  Recession Calls.  During an election year, the media's constant use or expectation of "recession" does matter.  Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party's likely nominee, already considers the U.S. economy "in a recession."  So are we — at least as economists commonly define the term?  No, not even close.

Gaiag Me With a Spoon.  No subject, not even Barack Obama and the New Camelot, inspires reporters to drop any pretense of balance and objectivity like the Environment.  Green is the only way to go.  Global Warming is likely to wreak havoc on your flowerbeds by the end of next week, it's all the fault of that parasitic species, Industrial Man, and anybody who disagrees is either a hopeless simpleton or a paid agent of Big Oil.

What's not to like?  Time magazine's recent piece "10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas" exposes the twisted thinking of watermelons (green on the outside, Red on the inside).  While acknowledging Americans' only recourse today is to "adapt just by suffering," the article celebrates the benefits of record gasoline prices.

Taking Us Back To Mud Huts And Loincloths.  Time's Joe Klein probably thought he was being clever when he wrote his late June essay on the evils of cooling headlined "Kill Your Air Conditioner."  Instead, he wrote yet another chapter in the left's book of environmental silliness. … Predictably, Klein believes Americans should sacrifice.  Sounds noble, but he leaves out the part in which sacrifice slowly mutates into government rationing.

John Coleman vs Al Gore:  Regular readers of this website are well aware of the Global Warming scam.  Poking holes in the AGW theory is becoming child's play.  But we have to keep at it because the general public and major presidential candidates are not so well informed.  A large percentage of the public still get their news from the mainstream media.  And of course the MSM is in the tank with Al Gore and the global warming believers.

Has Big Media Global Warming Bias Begun to Endanger the Public?  Why did the AP and the [Boston] Globe de-emphasize Maine officials' snowpack warning, especially when doing so endangered the property and safety of the public they are supposed to serve?  The Globe is owned by the New York Times Company. Both the Times and the Associated Press are heavily invested in the myth of Global Warming….

TV weather coverage intentionally exaggerates warming sympotoms.
 Global Whining vs. the Truth:  The bank not only referenced the name of the town, but had a thermometer that was several degrees off, thanks to the heat absorbing black asphalt on the adjacent multi-lane street and the pavement of the nearby parking lot.  The producer knew 105° would easily read 110°.  On air, I always quickly explained the reason for the soaring temperature reading for our audience, but it was not enough.  The misleading visual message was absolutely clear:  110° in Walnut Creek -- another sign of climate doom!

The Editor says...
 I can tell you from personal experience as a broadcast engineer that on at least one occasion I have been asked by a news reporter to use photographic tricks in order to make summertime haze look like pollution.  Many people who call themselves "journalists" are really environmental or political activists.  These are the people who will tell you that they got into broadcasting so they could "make a difference" and change the world.  But an objective reporter does not "make a difference."  If that happens, the report is probably biased or very selective with the facts.

My Big Fat Green Wedding and Other Media Nonsense:  From carbon footprint calculators to electricity-free weddings, the media's promotion of anti-global warming hysteria is warming up with the approach of Earth Day on April 22.  ABC's Good Morning America was actually running a Countdown to Earth Day every morning, beginning last week, as if we were all like kids waiting for Christmas Day.  Maybe that's how it is at Al Gore's house.

ABC Wants You to Fight Global Warming One Cheeseburger at a Time.  It's not enough for the media to try to brainwash the public the Earth is in peril due to global warming.  Now they're telling you what to eat.  This is something you might expect to hear at a PETA rally, but instead it was ABC's May 13 "World News with Charles Gibson" telling you to curb your beef consumption to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

What Americans 'Know' about Air Pollution Is False.  Activists and regulators depend on public fear and outrage over air pollution to maintain and enhance their power and budgets.  As the polls show, their phony gloom and doom stories have been all too successful in misleading Americans to overestimate the risks we face.  The exaggerations and fabrications have now been repeated so often that they have become "common knowledge."  Journalists should be acting as a check on these distortions, but they are not.  Journalists, like much of the public, consider environmentalists and regulators to be virtuous guardians of the public good.

The Media's 'Green is Good' Philosophy Strangles our Energy Policy.  [ANWR is] the kind of place that makes Siberia look like Miami Beach.  That hasn't stopped more than a decade of propaganda campaigns portraying something akin to an Alaskan Eden and warning of threats to wildlife.  Such stonewalling works in Washington.  Politicians won't lead when they risk being seen as anti- the media's crusade du jour.  Lately, the media pound us with the "green is good" mantra.  Anyone who dares challenge it is called a "denier" or a tool of oil interests, as opposed to someone who is just worried about our economy and our energy needs.

Facts beat talking points.  The problem with the energy debate is that most of the "facts" we hear on the radio and cable news are really just talking points from folks who mostly don't know what they are talking about.  The Democrats — as if they all received the same e-mail Wednesday — are arguing that the oil companies have plenty of places to drill, and isn't it very curious that they aren't?

ABC's Shameful Global Warming Character Assassination.  The nasty tone and gutter tactics of global warming alarmists and their media allies reached a new low on Easter Sunday [3/30/2008] when ABC aired on its nightly news and published on its Web site a character assassination of prestigious scientist S. Fred Singer.  Singer, one of the most respected and impeccably credentialed atmospheric scientists in the world, deserves much better than the media mafia hit ABC delivered on him.

Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution:  Air pollution has been declining for decades across the United States, yet most Americans still believe air pollution is a growing problem and a serious threat to their health.  The reason:  most information on air pollution from environmentalists, regulators and journalists — the public's main sources for information on the environment — is false.  Air quality in America's cities is better than ever.

Propaganda as Journalism:  One of the vilest, most venomous pieces of writing masquerading as journalism was the Newsweek cover story on August 13, 2007.  With the sun as the backdrop, which in the piece got a minor supporting role for global warming, compared to man-produced CO2, the magazine screamed "Global Warming is a Hoax" * and the asterisk led to the clincher as a large enough footnote:  "Or so claim well-funded naysayers who still reject the overwhelming evidence of climate change.  Inside the denial machine."

It may be cold, but CBC reassures us that calamity still looms.  Ah, the weather. … How cold is it?  It's so cold the CBC had to rush to assure all of us that global warming is still a big, big problem.  With record snow falls, record cold snaps, the return of sea ice to the north, snow in the Middle East and a deep freeze in China, any sensible person might begin to wonder and even have doubts about global-warming theory and climate change.  A little skepticism might begin to creep into the public sphere and threaten to undermine public belief in global warming.

The media snowjob on global warming:  [Scroll down] The bias is that whatever the IPCC and its defenders claim, the Washington Post and most other outlets report without scrutiny.  Meanwhile, the motives and sources of all sceptics are instantly suspected and derided.

In 2008, a 100 Percent Chance of Alarm.  A year ago, British meteorologists made headlines predicting that the buildup of greenhouse gases would help make 2007 the hottest year on record.  At year's end, even though the British scientists reported the global temperature average was not a new record — it was actually lower than any year since 2001 — the BBC confidently proclaimed, "2007 Data Confirms Warming Trend."  When the Arctic sea ice last year hit the lowest level ever recorded by satellites, it was big news and heralded as a sign that the whole planet was warming.  When the Antarctic sea ice last year reached the highest level ever recorded by satellites, it was pretty much ignored.

The red, red Koyapigaktoruk comes bob, bob, bobbin' along.  Always interested in a good global warming hook, the press was all over this. … Alas, as with most over-simplified global warming claptrap, more thought goes into coming up with the alarmist concept than in actually looking into whether or not it is true….

NASA measures global temperatures.  NASA is spending around 20 million dollars a year to deploy and monitor 3000 robot buoys around the worlds oceans and the data coming in doesn't support their theory on global warming, in fact it turns out the world has cooled slightly in the last five years.  It's surprising the mainstream media hasn't picked up on this, you would think the fact that the earth is cooling would be front page news.


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Time magazine replaces flag in famous Iwo Jima photograph with tree for global warming story.  Furious World War II veterans called for a boycott of one of America's most influential and respected magazines today over a controversial picture on its front cover.  Next week's Time magazine cover is based on the famous shot by war photographer Joe Rosenthal of marines raising the US flag on Iwo Jima during the bloody battle in the Pacific.

Time Bomb:  Time calls green "the new red, white and blue" and likens global warming to the fight against Nazism and fascism.  As it insults World War II vets, the magazine seeks to impose a tyranny all its own.

Voters Don't Care About Global Warming, But They Should.  Voters must care, but not for Al Gore's reasons.  Plenty of scientists say we don't have to fear a global warming apocalypse.  The global food riots stemming from forced biofuel policy serve as a chilling clue of what we do have to fear.  Instead of global warming causing food shortages, U.S. government policy has done that.  Instead of rising sea levels, we must fear rising tax levels.  Instead of ice caps melting away, we must fear our jobs evaporating.  Elevating the earth's temperature to the prominence of our enemies in World War II is abominable.  Ignoring what the next president could do to us is dangerous.

Time Fights Carbon Emissions; Military Fights Evil.  The state of the liberal mind is on display on this week's cover of Time magazine.  The already notorious cover takes the iconic photograph of U.S. Marines planting the American flag on Iwo Jima and substitutes a tree for the flag.  Why Time's editors did this explains much about contemporary liberalism.

Chickenfeedhawks:  If the tree-raising is Iwo Jima, a one-degree increase isn't exactly Pearl Harbor.  But General Stengel wants us to engage in preemptive war.  The editors of Time would be the first to deplore such saber-rattling applied to, say, Iran's nuclear program, but it has become the habit of progressive opinion to appropriate the language of war for everything but actual war.

Time Magazine's Environmental War Whoop:  No doubt Time's editors think they will be celebrated in poetry and song for generations to come for their high-minded cleverness.  Still, if the symbolism wasn't clear enough, Time writer Bryan Walsh spells it out:  "Green is the new red, white and blue."  There are any number of problems here, starting with the fact that this is simply a lie.  Green is not the new red, white and blue.  Concern over climate change may be the most honorable and vital thing imaginable.  But if "the red, white and blue" means anything, it means patriotism or love of country.  Patriotism and environmentalism simply aren't synonymous terms.

Earlier in Time...

Time Shills for Global Warming Alarmist Site.  Time magazine is at it again.  This time, it's going beyond unquestioning coverage of global warming alarmism to act as a public relations agent for a global warming alarmist's campaign.  A Time.com article by Bryan Walsh encouraged readers to go to an environmentalist Web site because it might be their last chance to see the "polar world."

The Editor says...
 Please note:  One degree per century is not enough to erase the polar ice caps.

Time Magazine Gives 51 Ways to Save Planet, Including Taxes and Regulation.  The magazine especially doesn't like anyone who doubts any aspect of the global warming mantra.  According to one article, if a parade of disasters "didn't quiet most of the remaining global-warming doubters, the hurricane-driven destruction of New Orleans did."  The story then went about blaming Hurricane Katrina on global warming.

The Media are Far From Objective on Climate Change.  Journalists pledged to be neutral, long ago gave up their watchdog role to become lapdogs for one position.  The media became alarmist claiming the planet is at a "tipping point" as if at any moment everything would go over the edge.  An April 2006 issue of Time magazine pushed readers over that edge with 24 pages of advocacy, claiming:  "The debate is over.  Global warming is upon us -- with a vengeance."  CBS's Scott Pelley, who covers the environment, actually compared climate change skeptics with Holocaust deniers and claimed:  "There becomes a point in journalism where striving for balance becomes irresponsible."

Media Frenzy Over Global Warming.  The campaign to convince us all of the coming disasters caused by global warming continues at hurricane force.  There have been gloom-and-doom cover stories in Time magazine and Vanity Fair, and one-sided stories on ABC News and CBS's 60 Minutes.  The problem is that the stories start with the premise that global warming is here, primarily caused by human activity, and that this is the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community.  As a result, rarely do any of the reports give any sort of a fair representation of the views by the thousands of scientists who disagree….

Time Bemoans 'Doomed' Wildlife Refuge:  The media took little pain to conceal their displeasure that the Bush Administration won House approval for oil exploitation in Alaska.  Time Magazine ignored entirely the possibility of coexistence between industry and the environment, unfairly skewing the issue.


Not So Hot.  If a scientific paper appeared in a major journal saying that the planet has warmed twice as much as previously thought, that would be front-page news in every major paper around the planet.  But what would happen if a paper was published demonstrating that the planet may have warmed up only half as much as previously thought?  Nothing.

'Nightly News' Gives One Side of Antarctica Ice Changes.  Defying the tenets of ethical journalism has become the norm for some media outlets when it the issue is global warming.  "NBC Nightly News" was no exception.  On January 14, "Nightly News" aired a biased alarmist report of changes in the ice shelf in Antarctica during its "Our Planet" segment, blaming "manmade carbon dioxide" for the shift and ignoring any other possibilities.

Evening Newscasts Not Sure Energy Bill is Enough.  President Bush just signed an epic energy bill that will increase fuel efficiency standards in automobiles, increase biofuel requirements for gasoline, and phase out incandescent light bulbs.  Two network newscasts couldn't decide if the "massive" changes are enough.

Two Out of Three Networks Support Banning Incandescent Bulbs.  How many networks does it take to change a lightbulb?  Two.  "CBS Evening News" and ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" both excluded anti-regulatory opinions from segments about a coalition that wants to ban incandescent light bulbs in favor of compact fluorescents.  Only NBC "Nightly News" offered a statement from its parent company, General Electric, supporting consumer choice during the March 14 broadcasts.

Anatomy of a Fake Consensus:  Most scientists (more than 80 percent) believe some global warming has occurred.  The best estimate is that global temperatures have risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit during the past 100 years.  A majority of scientists, but certainly not all, believe the human presence is responsible for some part of the warming that occurred after 1940.  Most scientists, however, don't agree on how much of the modern warming is the result of natural cycles and how much is due to human activities.

GE's Househugger TV commercial.  The voice-over commentary of GE's "house hugger" commercial says:  "Introducing a new way to build a home, with advanced GE lighting and technology that not only helps to reduce energy use, but greenhouse gas emissions as well."  Does false advertising become truthful just because the falsehood is communicated in the context of an obvious flight of fancy?

Happy Earth Day.  More than 30 years ago political scientist Anthony Downs discerned what he called the "issue-attention cycle," a five-stage process by which the public and especially the news media grow alarmed over an issue, agitate for action, generate piles of scary headlines, and then begin to draw back as we come to recognize that the problem has been exaggerated or misconceived, and the price tag for action comes in.

MSNBGreen:  "We have turned out the lights in the studio," NBC's Bob Costas told viewers of Sunday's Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game, "to kick off a week that will include more than 150 hours of programming designed to raise awareness about environmental issues." … On a typical game day, a large football stadium burns about 65,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and 35,000 cubic feet of natural gas.  The cars driving to the game spew about 200 metric tons of CO2 (and that assumes nobody's driving SUVs or RVs, which is like assuming tailgaters are eating only sushi).  There's also the electricity used to broadcast the game and to watch it.  But thank goodness Costas turned off the studio lights for a minute or two.

Here is an example of the biased reporting on MSNBC:
 EPA experts detail warming's health risks.  Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases.

CNN Meteorologist:  Manmade Global Warming Theory 'Arrogant'.  Unprecedented snow in Las Vegas has some scratching their heads — how can there be global warming with this unusual cold and snowy weather?  CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers had never bought into the notion that man can alter the climate and the Vegas snowstorm didn't impact his opinion.

CNN Predicts Possible 'Century of Fires' Due to Global Warming.  CNN exploited a national tragedy on October 23 by finding a way to blame global warming for wildfires.  During the October 23 "Anderson Cooper 360:  In the Line of Fire," Cooper reported from Southern California saying, "People are wondering if these fires are a result of global warming in some way."

BBC folds, then folds again.  The BBC appears to have serially caved-in to global warmist activism.  There was much online discussion this weekend about a Friday BBC global warming / La Nina related article suddenly changing its wording and with it — its apparent balance.  Today, news that an eco-activist has smugly taken credit for coercing the change has joined the conversation.

Al Gore buddy owner of sunken ship that left huge carbon footprint on Antarctic Ocean floor.  You'd never read this in the mainstream media:  The owner of MS Explorer that sank, leaving a huge carbon footprint at the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean Friday [11/23/2007] is an acolyte of teensy-weensy carbon footprint crusader Al Gore.  G.A.P. Adventures CEO and Explorer owner, Bruce Poon Tip and Gore have similar ideals, "filling their schedules with speaking engagements on environmental change to educate global audiences."

Media bias proves to be a Gray area.  It's not that [Dr. William] Gray is a media pariah.  His annual forecast on the number of hurricanes is dutifully reported and prominently displayed.  But when Gray talks about global warming — he's on the record as a strong skeptic of man-made global warming — the media barely notice.

Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network.  The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.  Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism.  "The Weather Channel had great promise, and that's all gone now because they've made every mistake in the book on what they've done and how they've done it and it's very sad," Coleman said.  "... Let's hope the new owners can recapture the vision and stop reporting the traffic, telling us what to think and start giving us useful weather information."

Weather Stations Giving Bad Global Warming Data — MSM MIA.  A few months ago, the blogosphere and talk radio were abuzz with the story of how the nation's various weather stations and temperature reading devices have been improperly located or badly constructed and how the data received from these improper devices must be suspected as inaccurate.  The MSM briefly mentioned this story but quickly dropped it like the proverbial hot rock. … Do the researchers who turn this inaccurate data into justifications for global warming theories really want to have proper data?

Global Warming Lie of the Day:  We're used to reporters making up scare stories about global warming, but when scientists start to make up "drop dead" headlines, things must really be getting desperate in the climate game.  But yesterday, we were told that you'll get a heart attack from global warming.  Fortunately, we can look up the original research on the National Library of Science website, and waddayaknow?  People die of heart attacks whenever it's really hot.  Or when it is really cold!

Scientists Send Letter to UN:  Give Up Futile Climate Change Battle.  If a former vice president with absolutely no formal scientific training in climatology or meteorology makes a statement about the world coming to an end due to rising temperatures, media will fawn over him like teenyboppers in the presence of Elvis Presley.  Yet, if more than 100 scientists from around the world send a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations urging him and his organization to stop wasting time, resources, and money fighting a futile climate change battle, crickets will be heard in newsrooms around the country.

Teresa Heinz's Favorite Scientist:  If you've paid any attention to the global warming debate, you've heard of James Hansen.  Hansen is the politicized NASA climate scientist who virtually invented the global warming issue in the broiling summer of 1988 when he was the star doomsayer at Senate hearings called by Al Gore.  Since then, Hansen has received better press than Mother Teresa. In hundreds of interviews and glowing profiles, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been treated as objective and/or infallible by an adoring mainstream liberal media.

The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore's Carbon Crusade.  Al Gore's campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear.  Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions.  But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America.  And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs.  Would the romance fizzle if Gore's followers realized how much their man stands to gain?

ABC's GMA Touts Environmentalist Who Boycotts Toilet Paper.  On Thursday's [5/10/2007] Good Morning America, the ABC program touted a liberal New Yorker who is so concerned about the environment that he refuses to use toilet paper.  GMA devoted eight and a half minutes of the May 10 show to promoting the cause of Colin Beaven, a man who, in addition to his bathroom stance, refuses to buy anything in packaging, won't use transportation, even elevators, and insists that all his food be grown within 250 miles. … Somehow, the word "liberal" didn't appear in the GMA segments.  If this man isn't a left-winger, who is?

Media Promote Global Warming Fraud.  On the matter of global intervention to stop global warming, there seems to be no need for scientific evidence to justify what is shaping up as a global carbon tax of 35 cents a gallon of gas on the American people.  Our media want the public to believe that the same organization that gave us the oil-for-food scandal can be trusted on its dire predictions of calamity from alleged man-made global warming.

Twisting Science to Fit the Global Warming Template:  The global warming crowd does not take kindly to being contradicted, either by critics or data.  Of course, critics can be defamed and data can be skewed.  But unless the critics can be silenced, they can fight back and expose phony data.  When it begins to look like predictions of doom are not turning out sufficiently catastrophic, a full Orwell is called for.  The media mobilize their templates to completely re-cast the information.

Newsweek climate article an 'editorial rag,' says warming skeptic.  Newsweek magazine is being compared to "editorial screed that violates basic standards of journalism" over a cover story that refers to global warming skeptics as "deniers."  The cover story, titled "The Truth About Denial," claims so-called global warming "deniers" are a "well-funded machine."


The Campaign Against Bottled Water

ABC Promotes Kicking the Bottled Water.  Stop and drop that water bottle, you're hurting the environment.  That was the message promoted by ABC "World News" on the July 8 broadcast.  The segment blasted the bottled water industry and promoted the decision of a "venerable" restaurant to take bottled water off the menu.  "With every sip are you actually hurting the environment?"  teased anchor Dan Harris, before Eric Horng's report made an undisputed claim that you are.

'World News' Hits the (Water) Bottle Again.  It must be summer rerun season because the July 9 ABC "World News with Charles Gibson" report on bottled water sounded a lot like the one from a day earlier.  For the second consecutive night, ABC aired a story criticizing the bottled water industry for the environmental cost.

Bottled Water Bash:  Networks Continue Assault.  Bottled water has been attacked recently for environmental damage, but now Aquafina's bottler, PepsiCo is under fire for not previously disclosing the source of its water.

'Nightly News' Continues 'War' on Bottled Water.  In recent months, ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN have designated the bottled water industry as the environmental "bad guy."  The media have claimed the bottled water industry uses an unnecessary amount of energy to bottle and ship its product — and therefore contributes to global warming.

Bottled water:  No longer cool?.  Critics are asking:  Why drink bottled water?  After all, it's pricey. … Empty bottles add to litter and solid waste.  And, as a rule, bottled water is no safer or healthier than the H2O that flows from municipal water systems.  What's more, blind taste tests, while wholly unscientific, often show that few people can distinguish between bottled and tap water.

Campaigners launch fresh attack on bottled water.  [An environmental group called] Sustain accused consumers and drinks firms of "bottling out" of their duty to protect the environment and tackle climate change by continuing to buy bottled water in record quantities.  The group's new report, published this week, urges consumers to drink tap water "to save the planet".  The move may put extra pressure on drinks firms at a time when environmental concerns are in the public spotlight.

IBWA launches pro-bottled water media campaign.  The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is launching a major media campaign in the United States in response to recent negative stories in the media about bottled water and campaigns against it by advocacy groups and some city mayors.

UK bottled water boom defies cynics.  Bottled water sales are booming in Britain thanks to a new generation of consumers who see the sector as more than glorified tap water and better for their health and well-being than fizzy drinks.

Bottled water 'is immoral'.  Drinking bottled water should be made as unfashionable as smoking, according to a [British] government adviser.  "We have to make people think that it's unfashionable just as we have with smoking.  We need a similar campaign to convince people that this is wrong," said Tim Lang, the Government's naural resources commissioner.

Mayors' bottle ban is no specious attack on Big Water.  U.S. mayors, having solved all other problems, resolved at their annual conference, in Miami, to stop providing bottled water for employees and guests. ... And now it sounds like they will, 250 mayors or so signing on to sing the praises of their own municipal water systems while also sheepishly having to confess that's where bottled water probably comes from in the first place.

US mayors ban bottled water.  The US Conference of Mayors on Monday [6/23/2008] passed a resolution calling for a phasing out of bottled water by municipalities and promoting the importance of public water supplies.  The vote comes amid increasing environmental concerns about the use of bottled water because of its use of plastic and energy costs to transport drinking supplies.

Bottled Water Tax Brings Only a Trickle of Revenue.  The city of Chicago's bottled water tax, which went into effect in January, may bring in less than half of what revenue forecasters first said it would raise.  Consumers appear to be buying their water anywhere but in the city.

Bottled water industry fights back, launches ad campaign to rebut bottled water bans.  "The bottled water industry has recently been the target of misguided and confusing criticism by activist groups and a handful of mayors who have presented misinformation and subjective criticism as facts," the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) said today in a news release.

Activists Reverse Founding Principles.  First, the underlying idea of their campaign is fundamentally flawed.  In particular, they maintain that making a profit on water is wrong because it somehow hurts communities around the nation where springs and aquifers provide the water.  In reality, these operations bring wealth to those communities. ... Furthermore, these operations do not deplete community water supplies as the activists suggest.  The aquifers, springs and other natural sources replenish via precipitation, a process called "recharging."  In fact, many have been operating sustainably for hundreds of years.

A Congressman With a Thirst for Truth.  There must be something in the water in this town.  The nation is entangled in two wars, a deep recession and a flu pandemic, and the people's representatives are hard at work investigating the menace of ... bottled water?  "I don't think we have to wait for a deadly outbreak of disease!" said Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), holding aloft a bottle of Coca-Cola's Dasani water. ... This much is clear, crisp and refreshing:  Bottled water has not killed anybody, and it's not even clear that it has made anybody sick.  And, as the committee learned, it is already regulated more strictly than other foods.

An opposing viewpoint:
 A New Reason to Skip Bottled Water.  There is so much wrong with bottled water that it's hard to know where to begin.  But let's start with the fact that bottled water is the most brilliantly marketed product ever invented.  The companies get it practically free out of a tap and charge you a dollar or more — sometimes a lot more — for a quart or less).  The plastic bottles pollute the environment.  Worst of all, drinking bottled water makes people less apt to be vigilant about protecting public water supplies.

The Editor says...
 None of those is a reason to stop buying bottled water. If it's expensive, that's capitalism at work.  The bottles don't "pollute the environment" any worse than any other kind of plastic that can be found in household garbage.  And the "worst of all" argument is a non sequitur:  I don't see any connection.

A Fashion Trend Meets A Watery Grave.  The recession may be finishing what environmentalists started a few years ago:  the end of the bottled-water fad.  Twice in the past week I have been in restaurants that just a year ago would have been pushing still or sparkling water at their patrons from the moment they sat down.  This time the waiters said merely: "Tap water OK?" ... The rise and fall of bottled water may be the best case study yet in the strange politics of trendy environmental causes.

If you're interested...
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Note:  This whole subsection might have to move to the Environmental False Alarms page.


America Goes Insane Over the Weather.  America is now totally insane over the weather.  Even the Weather Channel that used to simply provide reasonably accurate, short-term information about the weather is now telling everyone we're doomed because global warming is going to destroy the Earth.

Newsweek Quiz:  What Isn't Causing Global Warming?  You would never know there was a single dissenting view from reading the Newsweek story.  The magazine isn't the only media outlet that has embraced an attitude of "The earth is warming, it's mankind's fault and no one can question it."  ABC, CBS and NBC all treated the IPCC report with that same perspective.

ABC Won't Tell Who Caused Ecological Disaster.  Up to two million tires are at the bottom of the ocean floor off the coast of Florida.  They damage reefs, wash up on the beach and create a hazard for beachgoers.  How did they get there?  Don't ask ABC News.  With the power of government and the green movement of the 1970s, the process was set into motion to build artificial reefs from used tires.  All ABC could say was that "someone" had gotten the idea going.

Heartland President Debunks Global Warming Myths.  The popular press features possible crises on their front pages all the time, because bad news sells and they are in the business of selling copies of their publications and generating ad revenue, not reporting the truth about complicated subjects.  As they say in the business, "if it bleeds, it leads."  These are the same guys who told us Alar, saccharin, Red Dye #2, dioxin, a hole in the ozone layer, electric power lines, and cell phones were all causing cancer epidemics, and that Y2K would shut down the nation's electric grid and banks.

Science and Global Warming:  What Do We Know?  Wholly implausible scare scenarios are routinely disseminated to and through the media, even though they are contradicted by real-world scientific evidence.  Some of these scientifically unsubstantiated assertions appear in former vice president Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth." ... Gore's cinematic assertions are repeated as "truth" by a largely sympathetic media that seldom bothers to do their own research or mention contradictory scientific facts.

Green Issues Are the Place to Be.  Vanity Fair has more green issues than all the other magazines combined. … The profile of Rush Limbaugh accuses him of enabling "environmental destruction."  Another feature claims "almost every move you make affects the health of the planet."  From the second the alarm clock goes off, it argues, we are killing Mother Earth.

How the Left Intimidates the Media.  Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was recently paid $20,000 by Virginia Tech to tell the students that there aren't two sides to the global warming debate and that the problem with the media today is that we don't have a fairness doctrine.  Those positions, which sound contradictory, betray the modern liberal agenda.  They want to bring back the fairness doctrine not to ensure true fairness and balance in journalism but to intimidate and censor those expressing a view contrary to their own.

Pesticide-Free Schools — Full of Rats and Roaches?  Our local radio station ... is broadcasting "public service announcements" saying pesticides used in the schools are "linked" to cancer, asthma and lower IQ scores among the kids.  Probably you are hearing the same announcements on your radio stations.  They're produced by Earthworks, a consortium of eco-groups, and sponsored by The Ad Council.

Post Glosses over Deaths Linked to 'Silent Spring' Author.  The book "Silent Spring" set in motion the banning of DDT and needlessly cost millions of lives.  The Washington Post chose to mark author Rachel Carson's 100th birthday by barely mentioning that her actions "have remained controversial."  That's quite an understatement.

Bad Research, Worse Reporting on Global Warming.  In trying to prove that the Bush administration is throttling research into global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists rolled out some breathtakingly bad science. … "The new evidence shows that political interference in climate science is no longer a series of isolated incidents but a system-wide epidemic," Dr. Francesca Grifo, Director of the UCS Scientific Integrity Program, said in a press release. … Grifo obviously doesn't appreciate the irony when he trots out a poll that is so flawed that it is manifest evidence of exaggeration, incompetence or dishonesty on his group's part.

[The topic of Global Warming is covered extensively on another page.]

It's official:  San Diego paper is a propaganda organ.  On Monday, the legacy media crossed a critical line.  The San Diego Union-Tribune announced, in a column with the grotesquely misleading title "Fair Reporting on Global Warming" by its media columnist Carol Goodhue, that it will no longer cover both sides of the global arming story, instead limiting itself to acting as a conduit for Green propaganda.

Media Promote Global Warming Fraud.  On the matter of global intervention to stop global warming, there seems to be no need for scientific evidence to justify what is shaping up as a global carbon tax of 35 cents a gallon of gas on the American people.  Our media want the public to believe that the same organization that gave us the oil-for-food scandal can be trusted on its dire predictions of calamity from alleged man-made global warming.

Climate Change in Plain English:  It is unrealistic to expect the public, policymakers, or the media to read and understand the full body of climate-change literature.  Instead, they must rely on publications put out by pressure groups with a position for or against climate change, or on the verbal summation of a small number of high-profile experts.  But 30-second sound bites do not leave much room for qualifications, and, just as the devil is in the details, the quality of science is in the qualifications.

Global warming killing the planet?  It's not fact — just hot air.  Not since wholesale calamity was predicted as a result of the so-called millennium bug has so much coverage been given to a topic.  Miles' worth of column inches are now dedicated to global warming.  The predictions by media commentators are becoming more numerous and more strident as each new piece of evidence appears to support their case.  They have progressed from possibilities to probabilities and are now becoming certainties.  Global warming is a hypothesis, not fact.  And even if temperatures are increasing, that does not necessarily mean it is a result of human activities, nor does it mean that the outcomes will necessarily be overwhelmingly detrimental.

Are the Media Giving You the Whole Story on Global Warming?  If you want to know the truth about global warming — or acid rain, or the ozone hole, or any other environmental issue — you must keep in mind that the media are not giving you the true story.  And the reason for that is very simple.  They are reporting on the world as they see it:  distorted through green lenses.

Vanity Fair Tells Conservatives to Go to Hell.  The two-page "Dante's Inferno:  Green Edition" was part of Vanity Fair's full-issue attack that even claimed Rush Limbaugh "has blinded millions of Americans to the climate crisis" and accused him of "the environmental destruction that he did so much to enable in his multi-decade reign of denigration."

Christian Science Monitor Favors Mower Regulation.  The Christian Science Monitor gave a green thumbs up to a recent EPA decision mandating emission standards for new lawnmowers.  It downplayed one detail about the increased regulation — higher costs.

Dangerous Warming Unlikely, MIT Climatologist Says.  Global warming is unlikely to be a dangerous future problem, with or without the implementation of such programs as the Kyoto Protocol, according to Dr. Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and one of the world's leading climatologists, told a September 9 [2004] audience at the Houston Forum that alarmist media claims to the contrary are fueled more by politics than by science.

AP Fumbles Global Warming Story.  In late March, the Associated Press ran a global warming story that makes a number of misleading, if not downright inaccurate, statements.  Faulty "news" stories like this one, which mislead people all over the world, do not reflect a consensus of scientists.  It is alarming that a media outlet as influential as AP would run a story this wrong … and that so many news editors would be gullible enough to run it.

Global Warming:  Why Can't the Mainstream Press Get Even Basic Facts Right?  Carbon dioxide accounts for less than ten percent of the greenhouse effect, as carbon dioxide's ability to absorb heat is quite limited.  Only about 0.03 percent of the Earth's atmosphere consists of carbon dioxide (nitrogen, oxygen, and argon constitute about 78 percent, 20 percent, and 0.93 percent of the atmosphere, respectively).  The sun, not a gas, is primarily to "blame" for global warming — and plays a key role in global temperature variations as well.

TV News Gives One-Sided View On Global Warming.  If you want the straight dope about the seriousness of the alleged global warming problem, beware of the media — namely television.

Cartoon:
 Can the Media be Trusted on Global Warming?

Media Misconceptions Help Lead to Public Fear of Global Warming.  A review of the actual scientific record shows that atmospheric increases in temperature are nonexistent.  This information is too important to be ignored in these stories.

Experts Expose Flaws in Global Warming Extinction Predictions.  A January 8 article in Nature magazine created a media sensation by predicting global warming will cause between 15 and 37 percent of the Earth's species to go extinct by the middle of this century unless immediate and drastic action is taken.  But no sooner did the article gain the attention of the popular media than experts exposed its serious flaws.

Are the Media Giving You the Whole Story on Global Warming?  Most media reports ignore the evidence for cooling and focus instead on records from land stations, which indicate a 1°F increase in surface temperatures during the 20th century.  What they fail to report is that this increase was measured mostly in and around urban centers, and therefore indicates urban — not global — warming.

The Myth of Catastrophic Global Warming:  If the continual resurrection of the issue of global warming in the media is not a consummate example of the Big Lie, I'd be hard pressed to find a better one.

Recent Warming Is Not Historically Unique:  The twentieth century is not the least bit climatically unusual.  So why the recent media hysteria that the twentieth century is the warmest of the last 1,000 years?

The Global Warming Censors:  Did you ever tune in the network news and think you were getting a bedtime story in reverse?  Instead of calming you to sleep, every story seems to tell you of the phantoms under your bed, the ghosts in the closet, and the monsters that plan to visit on the weekend.  Dan Rather goes beyond that new frightening haircut.  He loves to forecast everything short of plagues of locusts as the summer begins.

Fire and Ice:  It was five years before the turn of the century and major media were warning of disastrous climate change.  Page six of The New York Times was headlined with the serious concerns of "geologists."  Only the president at the time wasn't Bill Clinton; it was Grover Cleveland.  And the Times wasn't warning about global warming — it was telling readers the looming dangers of a new ice age.  The year was 1895, and it was just one of four different time periods in the last 100 years when major print media predicted an impending climate crisis.  Each prediction carried its own elements of doom, saying Canada could be "wiped out" or lower crop yields would mean "billions will die."

This article reeks with bias:
 Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Highest On Record.  Human activity such as fossil fuel exploitation, rice agriculture, biomass burning, landfills and ruminant farm animals account for some 60% of atmospheric [methane], with natural processes including those produced by wetlands and termites responsible for the remaining 40%.

The Editor is quick to point out a few details...
 Notice that the anonymous author of the article above attributes farm animal emissions to "human activity" and he (or she) assumes that "human activity" is not a "natural process."  Notice also the use of the term, "fossil fuel exploitation."  The author could have used the word "consumption" but that wouldn't have had sufficiently negative connotations.  (Crude oil is of no value unless it is refined and put to use.  Of course we're going to expolit it.)  And the notion that CO2 levels are the "highest on record" is no cause for alarm, since accurate records of such things have been kept for only one century, at best.

New Research Adds Twist to Global Warming Debate.  Given the stakes in the current debate over global warming, the research may very well turn out to be one of the most important climate experiments of our time — if only the media would report the story.

Cosmic ray study fails to penetrate lead-lined media.
 Top Ten Junk Science Moments for 2006.  Swedish researchers provided experimental evidence that cosmic rays may be a major factor in climate change.  They calculated that just 5 years of cosmic ray activity can have 85 percent of the effect on the Earth's climate as 200 years of manmade carbon dioxide emissions.  Though the study was published in the prestigious Proceedings of the Royal Society A, the findings went largely unreported by the Al Gore-smitten media.

Al Gore's Recycled Doom:  First came the warm wave of supportive publicity surrounding [Al Gore's] slide-show documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."  Katie Couric and Harry Smith and Oprah Winfrey all touted Gore as so warm, so vulnerable and self-effacing, and his predictions so impossibly scary. … Now comes another warm wave of media smooches and applause with the news of his plan for an international set of "Live Earth" concerts to promote massive government action to curb humanity's excessive reliance on energy.

Warming fears do not add up.  Since the publication of the Stern review on the economics of climate change, global warming hysteria has reached fever pitch.  Which is not surprising, as the review was presented in terms carefully calculated to engender alarm.  It warns that climate change poses risks "on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century" and requires immediate action.  There has been something of a political and media frenzy ever since.

Media Bias on Global Warming Called 'Inconvenient Truth'.  A U.S. Senate committee hearing considering the media's handling of climate change was told Wednesday [12/6/2006] that media bias on global warming was an "inconvenient truth," although participating experts disagreed sharply over which side of the debate receives preferential media treatment.  "Journalists who have pledged to be neutral long ago gave up their watchdog role to become lapdogs for one position," Dan Gainor, director of the Business and Media Institute (BMI), told the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee.  The "alarmist" press behaves "as if at any moment, everything could go over the edge," Gainor said.

Time's Special Report Exemplifies the Decline of Ethics in Environment News Coverage.  Time's special report … is not a report but a diatribe — one-sided advocacy from start to finish.  Scientists who take a non-alarmist view of global warming do not get a word in edgewise.

Time and global warming:  Time's 1974 piece was nowhere near as sensationalized or irresponsible as last week's global warming sermon.  With its moralizing tone, overheated rhetoric about "crashing climates" and "glaciers and ice caps turning to slush," plus its parroting of the Green party-line about human-forced global warming, "Be Worried ..." couldn't have been less fair or unbalanced if it had been guest-edited by Al Gore.

"I don't like the word 'Balance', Says ABC News Global Warming Reporter.  ABC News Reporter Bill Blakemore declared "I don't like the word 'balance' much at all" in global warming coverage at a journalism conference in Vermont over the weekend.  Blakemore, who reported on August 30, 2006, "After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such [scientific] debate" on global warming, said he rejects 'balance' in order to justify excluding any skeptics of manmade catastrophic global warming from his reporting.

When Bad News is Good News:  The Spinach Story.  While death and disease of any sort is tragic, the fact that a foodborne illness has received so much attention at all is one indicator of just how safe our food supply generally is.  Despite the perpetual calls for additional federal oversight … Americans already enjoy the safest food supply in human history — and it's getting safer every day.

Remember Global Cooling?  In April, 1975, in an issue mostly taken up with stories about the collapse of the American-backed government of South Vietnam, Newsweek published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster.  Citing "ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically," the magazine warned of an impending "drastic decline in food production." … if you had been following the climate-change debates at the time, you'd have known that the threat was:  global cooling.

Ding-Dong, Global Warming is Dead!  A Los Angeles Times reporter in early December wrote, "Scientists studying Yosemite National Park's bountiful wildlife have found that several animal species have moved to higher altitudes, an uphill migration possibly spawned by the grinding effects of global warming on one of the nation's most protected wilderness."  This is not news.  It is mere speculation clothed in the majesty of journalism, but rife with the reporter's opinion that Yosemite's menagerie of mammals, birds, and reptiles are "possibly" responding to "the grinding effects of global warming."

Cow emissions blow up the atmosphere faster than autos.  Environmental alarmists and much of the media refuse to look at other industries and other reasons carbon dioxide is pumped into the air. … According to a United Nations report released in late November (and widely ignored by the media), bovine flatulence is responsible for 18 percent of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  By contrast, it is estimated that the U.S. auto fleet accounts for 6 percent of global CO2 emissions.

'Global Warming' TV Special 'Misleads Public,' Scientist Says.  A program on "global warming" set to debut on the Discovery Channel Sunday night [7/16/2006] "misleads the public," because it relies on "just a few scientists with a particular personal viewpoint on this subject," says a climatologist who has seen the two-hour special.

Al Gore's Rhetoric Doesn't Match Reality.  The environmental left has been waging a fear campaign about global warming for years.  The news media in their addiction to the scary and violent is a willing accomplice. … The global warming propaganda group Environmental Defense is also behind this campaign.  The group has now received $100 million in free air time (mostly from major networks) for advertising about the dangers of global warming.  They have invested $1.5 million or their own money and solicited the help of the Ad Council to create the dramatic spots.

A convenient lie:  Atmospheric-science professor John Christy … says, "Doomsday prophecies grabbed headlines but have proven to be completely false.  Similar pronouncements today about catastrophes due to human-induced climate change sound all too familiar."  But the media can't get enough of doomsday.

AP Incorrectly Claims Scientists Praise Gore's Movie.  The June 27, 2006 Associated Press (AP) article titled "Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy" by Seth Borenstein raises some serious questions about AP's bias and methodology.  AP chose to ignore the scores of scientists who have harshly criticized the science presented in former Vice President Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth."

Editor's Note:
 Reviews of Al Gore's movie can be found at the bottom of this page.

Bald Eagle-DDT Myth Still Flying High.  While the AP acknowledged the fact that bald eagle populations "were considered a nuisance and routinely shot by hunters, farmers and fishermen" — spurring a 1940 federal law protecting bald eagles — the AP underplayed the significance of hunting and human encroachment and erroneously blamed DDT for the eagles' near demise.

The NY Times:  Objective Journalism or Pro-Environmentalist PR?  "The Cost of an Overheated Planet" dominates the front page of the Tuesday [12/12/2006] Business section, accompanied by a cliched graphic of a Planet Earth with a giant thermometer stuck into it.  Reporter Steve Lohr is no less certain that global warming exists, as he celebrates the head of an energy company who favors federal regulations on carbon dioxide emissions.

ABC's Global Warming Cattle Call:  Things that, sans strict scientific scrutiny, most likely are happenstance, anecdotal or not related to global warming at all now are going to be reported by a major U.S. news network as proof positive of not just the man-made effects of global warming but that it lives and breathes….

Drought Scare Goes Up in Smoke.  Global warming is increasing Western wildfires!  At least that's what lots of news stories said in response to a July 6 paper by A.L. Westerling of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and three co-authors.  Like most scientific issues, though, this one is more complicated than the headlines suggest.

Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle:  A Challenge to Journalists who Cover Global Warming.  Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods.  From 1895 until the 1930's the media peddled a coming ice age.  From the late 1920's until the 1960's they warned of global warming.  From the 1950's until the 1970's they warned us again of a coming ice age.  This makes modern global warming the fourth estate's fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years.

Senator Inhofe and CNN Anchor in Heated Exchange Over Global Warming Coverage.  On CNN American Morning today [10/03/2006], Senator James Inhofe, the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, engaged in a heated exchange with CNN newsman Miles O'Brien over CNN's biased and erroneous coverage of global warming.  Senator Inhofe questioned the journalistic integrity of CNN anchor for, 'scaring a lot of people' with hyped climate reporting.  Senator Inhofe also questioned O'Brien about his 1992 CNN report regarding fears of a coming ice age.

Santa Barbara News-Press loses five editors.  Five top editors and a veteran columnist resigned from the Santa Barbara News-Press this week, complaining that billionaire-libertarian-environmentalist owner Wendy McCaw was undermining the paper's credibility and sticking her nose into the newsroom. … An animal rights activist and philanthropist, Mrs. McCaw, 55, often put her own personal touches on stories, including one opposing the consumption of turkeys on Thanksgiving because of the suffering of the "unwilling participant."

Time Misses Climate.  Time devoted a recent cover to the "near-certainty" that humans are causing dangerous global warming.  However, Time offered evidence only of a warming, which could be either man-made or natural.  Based on historic and geophysical evidence, Time's story is likely to be as wrong as its 1974 cover story touting global cooling!  Newsweek did one the next year.  Neither magazine understands the moderate, natural climate cycle that history tells us has dominated the last 2000 years of Earth's temperature variations.

Did I mention there's another page about Global Warming?

Everything you know is wrong.  For years, reporters have been alerting America to one scare after another.  Chemicals, cell phones, SARS — everything is going to kill us!  You would think by now we'd be doing nothing but digging graves.  Instead, Americans are living longer than ever.  Not that you'd ever know that from the mainstream media.

The Bird-Flu Scam:  You can't make any real money without a boogeyman, and the new "Bird Flu" hoax is the latest scam used to generate profits for pharmaceutical company insiders.

Hyping High Gas Prices, Hiding Good News.  During the Clinton years, network journalists argued (correctly) that strong economic growth, a rising stock market, low unemployment and low inflation were the benchmark indicators of a good economy.  Today, economic growth is a phenomenal 4.8 percent, the stock market has been climbing for three straight years, and inflation and unemployment are both low.  But instead of trumpeting the amazing "Bush economy," TV news has downplayed this recent good news while hyping the bad news of rising fuel costs.

CBS, ABC, NBC Fuel Gas Price Hysteria.  The morning and evening news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC haven't been just reporting consumer discontent about higher gas prices but also actively stoking public outrage.

Media Drill 'Big Oil' Again on 'Record' Profits:  NBC's Chip Reid subtly suggested oil company executives are a patently dishonest bunch. … Yet while Reid worried about "Big Oil" profit margins, his own employer enjoyed a profit margin higher than most American oil companies, according to data from CNN.com.  General Electric, the company which owns Reid's network, outpaced most major oil companies with a profit margin of 11.05 percent.

Drivin' and Not Cryin'?  When it comes to gas prices, the media too often know the price of everything and the value of nothing.  Flip open a paper and turn on the TV and you'll learn that gas prices are rising again.  "Stormy 6 Weeks Ahead" says CBSNews and warns consumers to expect "pain at the pump."

Why Are Gas Prices the Only Economic News?  While the average nominal gas price has risen above $2 a gallon, the networks routinely fail to adjust for inflation.  In today's dollars, gas prices were at least 26 percent higher in March 1981 after the Carter-era inflation spiral.  Gas prices today would have to reach $2.99 a gallon to be a record.

And eventually they did.

A little warming, a lot of hysteria.  Not so long ago, the media fad was all about the coming ice age.  Newsweek reported in 1975 that the earth was cooling and the effects on food production would be catastrophic.  Farmers in Northern Europe could expect the growing season to shrink by two weeks by the end of the century.  That didn't happen.

Fire and Ice:  Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can't decide whether we face an ice age or warming.  Thanks to the release of Al Gore's latest effort on global warming — this time in book and movie form — climate change is the hot topic in press rooms around the globe.  It isn't the first time.  The media have warned about impending climate doom four different times in the last 100 years.  Only they can't decide if mankind will die from warming or cooling. … Journalists have taken advocacy positions, often ignoring climate change skeptics entirely.  One CBS reporter even compared skeptics of manmade global warming to Holocaust deniers.

Let's put a freeze on global warming hype.  "Recently, media and politicians have virtually stopped talking about global warming and are now referring to climate change instead," states [Dr. Chris] de Freitas.  "That's because predictions of doom and gloom from warming just aren't coming true.  But with 'climate change,' Kyoto advocates can now cite any change or phenomenon as proof that CO2 emissions have upset the global apple cart."

"Too Hot" Not So Hot.  The latest triumph of the global warming crusade is a one hour HBO special entitled "Too Hot Not Too Handle" that is premiering in several cities this month. … If we adopted every suggestion in the film, concentration of carbon dioxide will still double this century.  The reality avoided in the film is that China is currently building over 500 coal-fired power plants; they intend to build one new coal fired plant every week for decades to come, and no matter what we do in the US, emissions from throughout the world will drive atmospheric carbon dioxide levels steadily upward.

Good News is Swept Under the Rug on Earth Day.  April 22 marks the activist-styled "Earth Day," when every environmental Chicken Little with an axe to grind takes to the media and proclaims the ecological sky is falling.

Media Often Gets the News on the Environment Wrong.  The media has suspiciously changed its tune on a number of environmental issues.  For example, in 1987, the Washington Post editorialized the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve is "one of the bleakest, remote places on this continent" but by 2000, the paper described the area as a "unique, wild, and biologically vital ecosystem."  In 2001, the media decried Bush's return to "old" arsenic standards, yet said nothing when such "dangerous" standards were embraced for eight years under the Clinton administration before they were changed only during the last few days of the administration.

Hurricane Hype Clouds Warming Debate.  ABC's Jeffrey Kofman sounded the alarm about storms so bad scientists "are now considering adding a fearsome category 6.  That's hurricanes of more than 175 miles an hour.  Something no one would want to meet head-on."  No one did.  Category 6 wasn't even added, and the chorus of media hype about another deadly season of storms turned into so much hot air.  That's right -- forecasts for the 2006 hurricane season, which ends November 30, have proven entirely wrong.  Instead of 17 tropical storms and hurricanes, we got only nine.

Are the Media Giving You the Whole Story on Global Warming?  If you want to know the truth about global warming — or acid rain, or the ozone hole, or any other environmental issue — you must keep in mind that the media are not giving you the true story.  And the reason for that is very simple.  They are reporting on the world as they see it:  distorted through green lenses.

Full-Court Press on Global Warming.  Aggressive focus on manmade climate change is far from a real "tipping point" — it's a coordinated liberal media play. … Hello, global warming.  Goodbye, journalistic ethics.

Media in the Cold.  The first thing we have to do is fire all the reporters, editors and headline writers who have not got a clue about "global warming" except that it scares … readers and sells newspapers. … Such stories are best distinguished by how many times the words "probably", "may", and "could" occur in the body of the text. These are very slippery words used by so-called scientists trying to justify their latest "findings."

Environmental Education:  School of Crock.  If Americans are confused, it's because they are spoon-fed by sources with little information, but with alternative agendas.  Consider where the average American gets that "information" on the environment.  About 60 percent of respondents in Roper polls cited mostly television and newspapers; about 25 percent credited the government and 33 percent said radio or environmental groups.  (More than one source could be chosen.)

Good News About the Environment:  After over 30 years of steady progress and improvement, the media still chooses to emphasize the negative and largely ignore the positive with their coverage of Earth Day events.

Hate the SUV, but don't shoot the driver.  Invariably when an SUV driver is involved in an accident, the story focuses on the SUV.  As though sedans, station wagons and especially hybrids never make mistakes.

Destroying America To Save The World.  For nearly four years, network news programs have presented a skewed view of global warming and the Kyoto treaty that liberal environmentalists claim would cure it.  Those same newscasts have all-but ignored the negative economic consequences that ratifying Kyoto would have on the U.S.  The network coverage also largely ignored scientific evidence questioning global warming theory, while touting dramatic claims of liberal environmental activists.

Surprise, surprise:  The New York Times gets it wrong... again.  Far from being the boogeyman, Western investment offers the greatest hope for the future of Indonesia.  Thanks to Jane Perlez and her confederacy of dunces, that hope shines less brightly.

Scaring for money.  Usually the horrible disaster never happens.  Chaos from Y2K.  An epidemic of deaths from SARS or mad cow disease.  Cancer from Three Mile Island.  We quickly forget.  We move on to the next warnings.  This is the story of a looming disaster that never became an actual disaster — because the science that led to the terror was never sound science at all.

Environmentalists Plus Press Are Dangerous.  The problem is environmentalists and newsmen feed on one another and can become doubly dangerous.  The most surprising at the moment are the radical environmentalists, who have infected large parts of the press with distortion, exaggeration, and seeming ignorance.

How the Media Get the Environment Wrong:  As strong environmentalism is one of the defining characteristics of the modern liberal, it should come as no surprise that the media lean toward environmentalism in their coverage of key issues.  Yet politics cannot be the whole answer.  Sensationalism and ignorance are also to the fore.

Media Spin Obscures Improvement in Air Quality.  The Environmental Protection Agency's recently released Latest Findings on National Air Quality confirms the good news that America's air quality is improving.  Unfortunately, many media outlets and environmental activists insist on telling the public otherwise.

Bush's environmental record is a far cry from media portrayals.  It is very subtle, but it is persistent.  Listen to the language used by the media to describe President George W. Bush's approach to environmental issues.  The language speaks volumes.

Stossel Attacks Global Warming and Other Media Scares.

Shenanigans at Greenpeace — And the Media Yawns.  After a year in which financial improprieties gobbled up headlines like never before, it would stand to reason that a brewing scandal involving a major international organization, millions of dollars, and alleged tax evasion would receive similar treatment.  But if that major international organization is famed environmental group Greenpeace, the media goes mute.

Hollywood's Environmental Wackoism:  Tinseltown's double standard hardly stops at freedom of expression.  One of the funniest sections of James Hirsen's Tales From the Left Coast describes the stars' environmental elitism.  Do as they say, not as they do.

Media Fosters Green Hobgoblins:  Every year reporters give the environmentalists fawning news coverage on Earth Day — not tough scrutiny of their goals and motivations.

Clamoring for Kyoto:  The Networks' One-Sided Coverage of Global Warming.  For years, liberal environmentalists have insisted that only tough regulations on economic activity can prevent the climate catastrophe of human-induced global warming.  So far, these activists' biggest policy success has been the 1997 Kyoto Protocols, which would have forced the United States to cut industrial emissions to seven percent below 1990 levels, or 30 percent lower than current levels.  But if the gloom-and-doom predictions of environmental activists' are exaggerated or wrong, such severe cutbacks — which would have increased energy prices and drastically reduced economic growth — are not necessary.

Nuclear Power Poised for a Revival:  The truth is spreading about France's highly successful use of nuclear power, holding great promise for America's energy woes -- but the liberal media are spinning a different story.

Global Warming Speculation vs. Science:  Just Ask the Experts:  On the facts of human-made global warming, should one believe television or the experts?

Spin wins over global warming science:  On ABC, CBS and NBC, every reporter and 9 out of 10 talking heads insist the scientific debate is over.

Facts frozen out:  Network News and Global Warming:  A study from the MRC's Free Market Project demonstrates that over the past five years reporters have presented a highly distorted picture of the global warming debate.

The Big Polluters:  CBS, NBC And ABC Serve As Tribunes For Radical Greens.  For years, liberal environmentalists have insisted that only tough regulations on economic activity can prevent the climate catastrophe of human-induced global warming.  Their activism led to the 1997 Kyoto Protocols, which would have forced the U.S. to cut industrial emissions to levels 30 percent lower than they are today, a massive economic sacrifice.  Kyoto was too onerous for both Democrats and Republicans, who rejected its basic principles in a unanimous 95-0 Senate vote four years ago.  President Clinton allowed Al Gore to sign the treaty, but never submitted it for ratification.  After all the rhetoric, only Romania ratified it.  This spring, President Bush finally threw it in the wastebasket.

The press corps covers global warming.  "I've believed for years and years that global warming is a hoax perpetrated on the political world by Malthusian Greenies whose hidden agenda is a smaller world population and falling standards of living."

TV's One-Sided Global Warming Nonsense:  Study says ABC, CBS and NBC never mentioned that thousands of scientists disagree with the doomsayers.

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