Gorebots: WH Correspondents Group Buying Carbon Credits
In a sign of just how deep the MSM is in the global-warming tank, the White House Correspondents Association [WHCA] has announced that it is buying carbon credit offsets for travel connected with its big annual dinner [h/t Mike Allen's Politico Playbook].WHCA president Ed Chen of Bloomberg announced the move, along with the dinner menu that included at least one "organic" item, then boasted […
Media Reality Check: 20 Years of Advocacy, Not Journalism, On Global W
For more than two decades, the so-called mainstream media have preached the dangers of manmade global warming, insisting American businesses and consumers must make massive economic sacrifices to ward off a global climate catastrophe. Not even last November’s exposure of e-mails from leading scientists on the alarmist side of the debate — showing them conniving to fudge or suppress data,…
'Mini Page' Propagandizes to Children, Touts Radical Environmentalist
In advance of Earth Day, the Mini Page, a children's supplement that appears in 500 newspapers across the country, touted radical environmentalist Rachel Carson, whose baseless crusade against DDT caused the death of millions. (To read about her deadly legacy, go here.) Under the headline, "Happy Birthday, Earth Day," the April 18 edition provided no information on the negative impact of Carson's…
BMI Special Report: Networks Hide the Decline in Credibility of Climat
For years the global warming alarmists' mantra has been "the science is settled." But a recent series of shocking disclosures about climate science has shaken the credibility of that claim. The first scandal - ClimateGate - came Nov. 20, 2009, after someone leaked thousands of e-mails from a major climate science group: University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU). The e-…
MRC's Brent Bozell on 'Fox & Friends' to Discuss Networks' Meager Repo
Brent Bozell joined "Fox & Friends" on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day to discuss a new Business & Media Institute Special Report about the broadcast networks' distorted coverage of ClimateGate and other climate scandals. Bozell highlighted the way the networks have barely reported ClimateGate and the other climate science scandals that have eroded the credibility of the global…
WaPo Earth Day Story Finds Glum Greens Struggling to Sell 'Slippery' C
In its puffy celebration of Earth Day on Thursday, The Washington Post found the green movement in "midlife crisis." Sadly, reported David Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin, the American people aren't grasping the immediacy of global warming, or seeing their exhalations as pollution: The problems are more slippery: pollutants like greenhouse-gas emissions, which don't stink or sting the eyes. And…
YouTube Pulls All Versions of 'Hide the Decline' ClimateGate Videos
A day after Minnesotans For Global Warming pulled their "Hide the Decline" video from YouTube at the request of ClimateGate scientist Michael Mann, all versions of this global warming satire were apparently removed from the powerful website.As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, M4GW received a threat from Mann's representatives stating that if the video was not taken down, he would sue.After M4GW…
Special WaPo Environmental Section Gives Greens Free Advertising
In honor of Earth Day 2010, the Washington Post dedicated eight tree-killing pages to a special advertising supplement titled "Environmental Leadership." (Unavailable online). Although it was woefully short on actual ads, the advertising supplement featured thirteen columns that sponsored, championed, and moralized the environmental catastrophe sure to result if Americans - and sometimes…
Gore's Film Sparks Indoctrination in Schools Controversy in New Zealan
Another country is looking into whether or not Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" should carry a warning before it is shown in public schools.In October 2007, a British judge ruled that there were so many material falsehood's in the film that they had to be disclosed to students before it was aired.Now, a petition is being distributed in New Zealand for similar provisions to be…
ClimateGate's Mann Demands 'Hide the Decline' Video Be Removed From Yo
ClimateGate scientist Michael Mann has threatened Minnesotans For Global Warming with legal action if their hit video "Hide the Decline" is not removed from YouTube.As NewsBusters reported in November, M4GW, in response to highly incriminating e-mail messages hacked from the British Climatic Research Unit weeks earlier, created an absolutely delicious version of the Tommy James and the Shondells…
New Global Warming Alarmism from LA Times: 'The World is Running Short
We have now reached the apex of "heads I win, tails you lose" global-warming alarmism. In his April 18 op-ed for the LA Times, author Eli Kintisch warned that "the world is running short on air pollution, and if we continue to cut back on smoke pouring forth from industrial smokestacks," global warming consequences could be "profound." Having painted themselves into an environmental conundrum,…
Environmentalists’ New UN Proposal – Put ‘Ecocide’ and ‘Deni
Britain's left-of-center daily - "The Guardian" - has reported that former international environmental lawyer Polly Higgins has launched a new campaign urging the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to deem environmental damage on par with genocide and crimes against humanity in international courts. "Supporters of a new ecocide law also believe it could be used to prosecute ‘…
Sunday Funnies: Stephen Colbert Moderates Global Warming Debate
Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert on Tuesday actually moderated a debate about global warming.In fairness, it was less of a debate and more a vehicle for him to make fun of his guests Joe Bastardi of Accuweather and Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists.Regardless of the comedic intent on the part of the host, there were indeed some wonderful moments, in particular Bastardi pointing…
Missing from AP Story on EPA's CAFE Mileage Move-Up: 'General Motors
One would think that in a story about how a four-year move-up of higher fleet gas mileage requirements being imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would at least look at which manufacturers might be more or less affected by them based on what they currently sell, and how those sales are trending. Well, most readers here don't think like writers at the Associated Press. Heck, in his…
