John Stossel Discusses RFK Jr’s Live Earth Rant With Steve Malzberg
July 15th, 2007 12:19 AM
As NewsBusters reported Monday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., made some absurd statements about a number of conservative media members at Al Gore’s Live Earth concert in East Rutherford, New Jersey.One of those Kennedy called a flat earther, ABC’s John Stossel, after debating Kennedy on Fox News’ “Your World with Neil Cavuto” Wednesday, spoke quite candidly about this issue with WOR radio’s Steve…
Saturday Climate Change Funnies: “Fear of a Global ‘Coldening
July 14th, 2007 12:19 PM
In the wake of soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore’s failed Live Earth concerts, maybe what the world needs is a little humor to save us from the hysteria being spewed by global warming alarmists.Almost on cue, Australia’s Tim Blair published a marvelous column in the Daily Telegraph Saturday that is guaranteed to give climate change skeptics a few much-needed chuckles.Sadly, I don’t think the alarmists will…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: July 7 to
July 14th, 2007 9:25 AM
One Man’s Terrorist...On "CNN Newsroom," correspondent Cal Perry asserted that Hamas is fighting for "independence" from Israel. Somehow, he failed to mention that the organization has often called for the destruction of that country. Just ‘Cause Al Gore’s Involved, Doesn’t Make it PoliticalDan Harrison, a senior VP of NBC, this week asserted that his network’s over-the-top coverage of Al Gore’s…
Environmental Group President Threatens To Destroy Career of Global Wa
July 13th, 2007 4:49 PM
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a president of a major environmental group sending an e-mail message to a colleague threatening to ruin that person’s career over disagreements regarding anthropogenic global warming.Yet, as published at National Review Online’s “The Corner” on Friday, that’s exactly what happened just days after a Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow wrote an…
Leonardo DiCaprio Introduces ‘The 11th Hour,' AKA ‘An Inconvenient
July 13th, 2007 3:12 PM
Given the dismal failure of Al Gore’s Live Earth concerts, now seems hardly the time to be releasing “An Inconvenient Truth, Part II.”Yet, on August 17, Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary about how man is destroying the planet, “The 11th Hour,” premieres to a society that seems to be losing interest in global warming alarmism. How delicious.The seemingly over-worked premise is described thusly (…
BBC Report on Sun and Climate Change Contradicts Its Own 2004 Story
July 12th, 2007 5:34 PM
On Thursday, Jules Crittenden wondered if American media are lazy, stupid or willfully ignorant with how they’ve been reporting events in Iraq. Given the BBC’s recent piece concerning the relationship between the sun and climate change which hysterically ignored an article it published almost three years ago with a completely diametric view, one might ask the same question of that British…
Did Live Earth’s Flop Reduce Media Interest in Global Warming
July 12th, 2007 2:59 PM
A funny thing happened a few days after Al Gore’s concerts to draw attention to global warming concluded: a significant study out of England stating that changes in the sun’s output are not responsible for climate change went almost thoroughly ignored by America’s media.A report by the BBC on Tuesday, which demonstrably challenged one of the key arguments made by anthropogenic global warming…
CBS Warns Viewers: Recycling Could Kill You
July 12th, 2007 2:06 PM
So much for recycling as a perfect save-the-planet solution …It seems recycling may be deadly, according to the CBS “Evening News.”“The business of recycling is a big part of the reason people are piling their trucks full of junk,” said CBS News correspondent Sandra Hughes on the July 11.