Environment
Van Morrison Asks YouTube to Remove 'Two Below Honey' Satire
February 5th, 2009 11:24 AM
On Wednesday, NewsBusters premiered a new video from our friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming called "Two Below Honey."Those that watched it saw and heard a clever global warming parody sung to Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey."The video has now been removed by YouTube with the following explanation:
Update from Minnesotans for Global Warming: 'Two Below Honey
February 4th, 2009 9:43 AM
In honor of this year's harsh winter, our dear friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming have created a new song to address Nobel Laureate Al Gore's scam. Done to Van Morrison's hit "Tupelo Honey," they call it "Two Below Honey," and it's being premiered this morning at NewsBusters:
Ashley Judd: 'Palin Promotes Brutal Aerial Killing of Wolves
February 3rd, 2009 3:29 PM
Did you know that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin promotes the brutal aerial killing of wolves?You didn't?Well, that's what actress Ashley Judd claims in a new ad for the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund. Even worse, according to Judd, Palin is "casting aside science and championing the slaughter of wildlife" (video embedded below the fold):
CNN's Blitzer and Vanity Fair's Orth Fawn Over Obama and His Team
February 3rd, 2009 2:41 PM
Anchor Wolf Blitzer and Vanity Fair correspondent Maureen Orth raved about the core members of the Obama administration and their pictures taken by photographer Annie Liebovitz during a segment on CNN’s Situation Room on Monday. Their conversation sounded as if the two were suddenly back in high school browsing a new yearbook. Blitzer gushed over the photos of President Obama and his wife…
Obama Puff Pieces Let Some Embarrassing Truth Through
January 30th, 2009 2:20 PM
The mainstream media hasn't bothered to hide its infatuation with President Obama. They get physical thrills at the sound of his voice. His inauguration caused them to reach for religious imagery. Now that he's in the White House, they want us to know us what a breath of cultural fresh air he is - more informal, healthier and family-centered. Unwittingly, though, they're also showing a man who…
Dennis Miller: Al Gore Is a Doofus Hogging The Thermostat
January 29th, 2009 10:19 AM
While the rest of the climate alarmists in the media gushed and fawned over Nobel Laureate Al Gore's testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, at least Americans had Dennis Miller to offer some sanity to the global warming absurdity:On this [Al Gore's] a bit of a doofus...He talks about it being our home. Why is he hogging the thermostat? And you know, he's got his own personal challenge come up here…
Gore in DC: Will Anybody Care About His Green Investments
January 28th, 2009 11:08 AM
As Nobel Laureate Al Gore warns Congress today about how the naturally occurring gas carbon dioxide is destroying the planet -- and gets a lot of press attention doing so, of course! -- one has to wonder whether anyone -- either on Capitol Hill or in the media -- will ask him how he financially benefits if the legislative measures he's proposing get enacted.After all, as NewsBusters reported last…
Former Boss Rebukes NASA Global Warming Alarmist Hansen, Is AGW Skepti
January 28th, 2009 10:26 AM
I'll betcha this won't get much notice in the Obamedia, so it needs some here.Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe's Environment and Public Works Committee Press Blog released a statement last night reporting that Dr. John S. Theon, the former supervisor of over-the-top global warming alarmist James Hansen, has publicly rebuked his former employee's conduct, refuted Hansen's comedic claim that he was…
NBC: ‘Immediate Action’ Needed to Stop 1,000 Yrs of Global Warming
January 27th, 2009 6:12 PM
Uniquely among Monday’s broadcast evening newscasts, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams read a short item citing a "disheartening" report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicting that the world is in danger of suffering effects of global warming that will take 1,000 years to reverse unless "immediate action is taken to cut greenhouse gases." Williams: "The…
Clinton Appoints 'Climate Change Envoy' From Her Own Think Tank
January 26th, 2009 2:51 PM
In one of her first official decisions since being confirmed as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton on Monday appointed a special envoy on climate change who is currently a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.As NewsBusters reported in June 2007, CAP is led by former President Clinton's Chief of Staff John Podesta, and the list of all those involved reads like a Clinton…
Obama 'Shifting Power From Traditional Cabinet Posts'; Will Media Comp
January 25th, 2009 1:19 PM
I guess President Josiah Bartlet, the mythical president in The West Wing television series, would have been pleased. Jonathan Martin at Politico.com reports that the Obama Administration is concentrating lots of power at the top (bolds are mine):West Wing on steroids in Obama W.H. President Barack Obama is taking far-reaching steps to centralize decision-making inside the White House,…
Longtime Enviro Activist: Carbon Trading, Wind Farms 'Verging on a Gig
January 24th, 2009 10:18 AM
James Lovelock (picture is from his web site) has been the topic of at least three previous NewsBusters posts:In September 2006, Dan Gainor marveled at how the Washington Post could devote 2,400 words to Lovelock and his "Gaia Theory" -- the idea that the earth acts like a living organism. In October 2007, Gainor noted Lovelock's appearance in that esteemed scientific publication Rolling Stone,…