CNN Split Screen Pits ANWR-drilling Advocate vs. B-roll of Wildlife
July 16th, 2008 4:49 PM
So much of the liberal bias on cable networks is visual. It can impact the casual viwer on the treadmill at the gym watching with the audio off. Case in point is the video embedded at right from the July 15 edition of "The Situation Room" on CNN. [audio available here]In it, anchor Wolf Blitzer tries to put a substantial wedge between House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and presumptive…
Energy Expert Warns Poverty Stricken Don't 'Give a Damn' About Warming
July 14th, 2008 9:51 AM
The environmental movement stands to lose many supporters if it works against people's economic prosperity, said energy security expert Gal Luft on July 11.Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, warned attendees of the fourth "Integrity in Science" conference in Washington, D.C. that as economic prosperity declines, apathy about climate change issues…
Saturday Funnies: 'Imagine There's No Global Warming
July 12th, 2008 2:53 PM
Our friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming -- the folks who brought us the fabulous video "If We Had Some Global Warming" -- have just released a new number deliciously set to John Lennon's "Imagine."Update: Lyrics at end of post.
Clean Air Causes Global Warming, Global Warming Causes Smog
July 11th, 2008 11:35 AM
In today's "People Can Prove Whatever They Want If They Really Try Hard Enough" moment, Swiss scientists claimed early this week that efforts to clean the air over Europe the past three decades are responsible for at least half of that continent's 1°C rise in temperatures since 1980. In an interesting chicken and the egg conundrum, scientists in America claimed Thursday that global warming…
Headline: 'Global Warming Causing California Glacier to Grow
July 9th, 2008 6:42 PM
From the "You've Got To Be Kidding Me" department: "Global Warming Causing California Glacier to Grow, Scientists Say."What? Hasn't Nobel Laureate Al Gore and every climate alarmist in the media been warning us that global warming is causing glaciers to melt, and that we're all going to die if we don't do something about it?Well, not so fast, because according to the CBC, much like climate change…
Is Wikipedia Promoting Global Warming Hysteria
July 9th, 2008 11:29 AM
Two weeks ago, a parent-teacher council blamed the online research source Wikipedia for falling test scores in Scotland.On Tuesday, Canadian columnist Lawrence Solomon blamed Wikipedia for helping to spread global warming hysteria around the world.The connection? Oftentimes "inaccurate or deliberately misleading information" published by Wikipedia being taken as fact by unsuspecting readers.In…
Shocking Scientific Discovery: Plants Love Carbon Dioxide
July 8th, 2008 8:01 PM
As media members have advanced global warming hysteria by claiming the naturally occurring gas carbon dioxide is going to destroy the planet, one seemingly obvious scientific constant has eluded them: plants love that which people like Nobel Laureate Al Gore want to eliminate.Truth be told, without carbon dioxide, we'd all die, a scientific fact that has been inexplicably lost in this so-called…
NBC Lauds Japanese G8 Summit for Green Initiatives
July 7th, 2008 1:59 PM
With world leaders meeting in Japan for the G8 Summit, conventional wisdom would suggest high commodity prices - which are having a detrimental effect on world economy - would be the focus. But that wasn't so on the July 6 broadcast of "NBC Nightly News." Instead of reporting on what are seemingly more pressing issues, the segment about the summit highlighted "green" efforts from the host…
Penn Jillette Bashes Newsweek's 'Non-scientist' Sharon Begley
July 3rd, 2008 9:03 PM
Newsweek's Sharon Begley, who earlier this week had the unscientific gall to blame the Midwest floods on global warming, continues to offend more and more people with her every keystroke.The object of her current disaffection, comedian/magician Penn Jillette, isn't taking her affront lying down. In fact, he published a response at the Los Angeles Times Thursday to her recent attack on his global…
NYT: Maybe Greenland Isn't Melting After All
July 3rd, 2008 4:10 PM
For years, climate alarmists in the media have loved showing video footage of Greenland glaciers slipping into the ocean in order to evoke feelings of global warming gloom and doom in the citizenry.On Friday, the journal Science is publishing a seventeen year study of Greenland's ice sheet that flatly contradicts all such hysterical reports and claims.In fact, the paper concludes that such…
Global Warming Update: Snow Blocks Key Road in Montana Park
July 3rd, 2008 10:58 AM
Due to record snowfalls in Montana this year, Glacier National Park's famous Going-to-the-Sun Road was finally opened to tourists Wednesday -- much later than normal. With the exception of 1943 when park officials chose to let the white stuff thaw naturally due to the nation being in the middle of World War II, this is the latest opening in the history of this thoroughfare which connects both…