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Time.com Writer Cites Temperature at North Pole, Alaska As From THE North Pole

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2015, 10:00 AM EST

The temperature in the Fairbanks, Alaska suburb of North Pole earlier today was apparently in the low-40s Fahrenheit. It was then that Alexandra Sifferlin at Time.com reported the Alaska town's temperature as if it came from the North Pole. The only ...

The Atlantic Turns Left for Planetary ‘Hope & Despair’ Q&A

By Sam Dorman | December 30, 2015, 10:13 AM EST

The Atlantic needs a reminder that journalists should mention both sides when covering stories. The Society of Professional Journalists says the media are supposed to “support the open and civil exchange of views.” That includes climate change. Ignoring t ...

Investor's Business Daily Notes Three Global Warming Stories The U.S. Press Has Ignored

By Tom Blumer | December 27, 2015, 10:36 AM EST

Yesterday, I noted that Associated Press reporter Karl Ritter actually wrote, and AP actually published, a story about how complying with the Paris climate agreement would require greenhouse gas emissions "To Drop Below Zero." Perhaps Ritter, wh ...

Rachel Maddow Show Producer Agrees With Obama That GOP Is Globally Unique, and Not In a Good Way

By Tom Johnson | December 27, 2015, 9:12 AM EST

President Obama considers the Republican party an international outlier, and so does Steve Benen, a producer for MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. (That’s “outlier,” not “outlaw,” though, who knows, for them that may be a distinction without a difference.) ...

HuffPo Writer: We Should Unplug Our Energy-Burning Christmas Decorations

By Tom Blumer | December 26, 2015, 11:30 PM EST

In the annual competition between leftist media outlets for the screwiest (or most Scrooge-like) criticism of Christmas traditions, a Huffingon Post  item published Thursday morning by Michael McLaughlin (HT Breitbart) was a formidable entry. After the Hu ...

Part of a Real AP Headline: 'Emissions Need To Drop Below Zero'

By Tom Blumer | December 26, 2015, 11:34 AM EST

The detachment from reality of those who actually believe that the recent international climate agreement in Paris is anything but a dangerous and potentially expensive charade has become especially irritating. The goals identified in Paris are obviously ...

Blogger Jonathan Chait: Conservatism and Marxism (But Not Liberalism) Are Examples of ‘Rigid Dogma’

By Tom Johnson | December 23, 2015, 11:33 AM EST

New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait thinks that in a sense, conservatism and Communism aren’t such strange  bedfellows when it comes to economic matters. In a Sunday post, Chait categorized “American conservatism” and Marxism as “rigid dogma,” whereas libe ...

CNBC’s Becky Quick to Joe Kernen: ‘Climate Change Is Not Your Friend’

By Sam Dorman | December 23, 2015, 10:32 AM EST

After CNBC Squawk Box co-host Joe Kernen complained about his recent spat with allergies, citing warm weather as a potential cause of ragweed growth, co-host Becky Quick teased him about climate change. “I’m allergic, I’m allergic,” Kernen said. “And I st ...

10 Outrageous Ways the Media Were Anti-Business Activists in 2015

By Julia A. Seymour | December 21, 2015, 11:49 AM EST

Objective journalism is so old-fashioned. Activism is the new objectivity, at least where the liberal media are concerned. Rather than reporting as neutral outsiders on matters of race, CNN hosts and guest actually put their hands up in the “ Hands up, do ...

CBS Highlights Florida Green Project Turned Eco-Disaster

By Sam Dorman | December 21, 2015, 1:51 PM EST

Environmentalism is a disaster. CBS Evening News reported that Ft. Lauderdale found itself in an ecological disaster after a local government sponsored the dumping of millions of tires in the city’s waters. In its Dec. 16 broadcast, CBS said that used tir ...

Obama Turns Bear Grylls Show Into a Self-Congratulatory, Global Warming Yuck Fest

By Dylan Gwinn | December 19, 2015, 6:38 AM EST

So, if you were playing a drinking game where you took a shot for every time Bear Grylls congratulates President Obama on saving the world during Thursday night’s episode of “Running Wild with Bear Grylls,” I hope you filled out a will before doing so. Be ...

The View’s Raven-Symone: Climate Change ‘Equal Threat’ to Terrorism

By Sam Dorman | December 17, 2015, 10:01 AM EST

View co-host Raven-Symoné took to Twitter last night to blast GOP candidates on foreign policy and, in particular, climate change. The actress and one-time Disney star scolded former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for saying terrorism is a bigger threat than ...

Five Celebs Protest Climate Change, Demand Action During Paris Conference

By Erin Aitcheson | December 16, 2015, 3:30 PM EST

In spite of the fact that Hollywood celebrities live in fancy houses, often use private planes and galavant around the world spewing far more carbon than the Average Joe, many of them love to warn about the threat of climate change. So it was no surprise ...

Evening News Shows Ignore Radicalism, Crimes Surrounding UN Climate Summit in Paris

By Erin Aitcheson and Julia A. Seymour | December 16, 2015, 11:10 AM EST

In recent weeks, thousands of negotiators from 196 governments met in Paris “for a major conference on climate change” attempting to reach an agreement for every country to lower its greenhouse gas emissions: emissions climate alarmists say will cause cat ...

Bloggers: Global-Warming Deniers Are Traitors to the Planet, Paris Deal ‘One of the Great Triumphs in History’

By Tom Johnson | December 16, 2015, 12:01 AM EST

When it comes to global warming, Esquire ’s Charles Pierce implies, it’s now conservative Republicans and a few hidebound Democrats versus pretty much everyone and everything else, including the world’s non-human animals and its plant life. Pierce contend ...