Environment
Did Media Hype NASA Study Forecasting 110 Degree Summers in the South
May 14th, 2007 11:31 AM
Did you happen to see the reports last week predicting that summer temperatures in the southeastern part of the country could reach 110 degrees by the year 2080? Well, according to a study just released by the Roger Pielke, Sr. Research Group, the media took “an otherwise interesting and informative research article” published in the Journal of Climate and translated it “into an almost hysterical…
Did the U.N.’s IPCC Report Exaggerate CO2 Increases to Hype Global W
May 14th, 2007 10:15 AM
Those who have been following the manmade global warming debate are well aware that every time the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues another dire pronouncement, the media report the bad news every hour on the hour.However, what if a new scientific study concluded that the IPCC cherry-picked data concerning CO2 levels in the past in order to make it look like today’s…
Liberal Columnist Slams Al Gore, the U.N. and ‘Greenhouse Fearmonger
May 13th, 2007 4:28 PM
Would you expect a former writer for the Village Voice and The Nation to be harshly critical of soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not-so merry manmade global warming alarmists?Neither would I. Yet there it was in the leftwing newsletter CounterPunch, written by editor Alexander Cockburn.*****Critical Update: Cockburn's article published by The Nation.Entitled “Hot Air, Cold Cash; Who are the…
Al Gore Protested by ‘Environmental Militants’ in Argentina, Media
May 12th, 2007 1:31 PM
When President Bush receives protests as he travels abroad, it’s front-page headline news. Yet, when former Vice President Al Gore is so protested, the media couldn’t care less.Although the Associated Press did report Gore’s visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to speak at a biofuels conference Friday, virtually no American media outlet picked up the story:As Gore spoke, outside the hotel…
Polar Bear Baby Boom Occurring in Eastern Arctic, Will Media Notice
May 11th, 2007 2:42 PM
This one is really too funny, folks, and definitely requires all potables, combustibles, and sharp objects be properly stowed (grateful and humorous h/t to NBer dscott).Despite all the carping and whining by folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his not so merry band of sycophant devotees about global warming killing polar bears, there is actually a baby boom occurring in this species in Canada’s…
CNN’s Situation Room Asks ‘What If the World Took Climate Change
May 11th, 2007 11:14 AM
The mainstream media’s promotion of climate change hype continues unfettered. A segment on Thursday’s "The Situation Room" wholeheartedly embraced the theory of human-caused global warming, and the International Panel on Climate Change’s recent "action plan" to do something about it.Video (1:27): Real (2.37 MB) or Windows (2.79 MB), plus MP3 (996 kB).During his actual report, CNN correspondent…
Glenn Beck’s Global Warming Special ‘Exposed: The Climate of Fear
May 10th, 2007 9:37 PM
As NewsBusters reported here and here, CNN’s Headline News last Wednesday broadcast a special on global warming hosted by Glenn Beck. In it, Beck exposed multiple mistakes in soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth," as well as identified many of the fallacies and misnomers surrounding the Kyoto Protocol.For those that missed it, “Exposed: The Climate of Fear” is now up at…
