AP Stylebook Twitter Feed: Global Warming, Climate Change, Same Differ
December 8th, 2009 5:44 PM
I just caught this a few moments ago perusing @APStylebook, the Twitter feed for the Associated Press Stylebook. It was tweeted at 12:02 p.m. EST yesterday:#APStyle tip: Global warming and climate change can be used interchangeably. Go behind the scenes in Copenhagen with @AP_ClimatePool. Now if only @FakeAPStylebook would spoof this. Might I suggest:#FakeAPStyle tip: Oh, why not: Global…
Major Media Spread Erroneous U.K. Temperature Data
December 8th, 2009 3:12 PM
If you go to Google today and search on the phrase "warmest decade" you will get a result set with thousands of breathless articles claiming that 2000 to 2009 is the warmest decade on record. This is on the cusp of an announcement from the UN climate talks in Copenhagen where world leaders are desperate to speed past Climategate and refocus the world's attention on their apocalyptic global…
On Today: Climategate Already Forgotten but U.S. is 'Blamed' for Globa
December 8th, 2009 3:04 PM
On Tuesday's Today show, there was no mention of Climategate -- apparently the one mention of it on yesterday's show was enough for them – but NBC's Ann Curry did pass along more global warming hysteria from the Copenhagen conference, including an admonition of the United States. During the 7:00am half-hour Curry noted, "Today at the climate summit in Denmark the head of the World Meteorological…
CNN Extensively Covers Viewpoint of Climate Change Skeptics
December 8th, 2009 2:54 PM
CNN made a real, day-long effort on Monday to address the climate-change debate as a debate, giving skeptics of manmade climate change a series of chances to match the leftist view, especially during its evening programming. CNN is also the only U.S. TV news outlet so far to send an anchor to the Climate Research Unit at the center of the ClimateGate controversy.International correspondent Phil…
New Panic Hook: 'Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Sav
December 8th, 2009 1:21 PM
Prepare for more panic talk about the end of the world as Dr. James Hansen, a leading global warming alarmist whose temperature data has come under question, launches a media tour for his new book out this week, 'Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity.'Hansen is director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New…
Nets Panic: Clock at Zero in 'Life and Death' Effort to Avoid 'Global
December 7th, 2009 11:59 PM
“Facing a clock some say has ticked down to zero, today 192 nations came together to take on a potential global catastrophe,” a dire ABC reporter Bob Woodruff ominously intoned from Copenhagen on Monday’s World News with “Saving the Planet?” on screen. Those attending the conference on climate change “where an official said today the clock has ticked down to zero and it's time to act,” NBC anchor…
MSNBC: ClimateGate ‘A Controversy That’s Not Really There
December 7th, 2009 4:47 PM
Near the end of the 2PM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer discussed the ClimateGate scandal only to claim there was no scandal in the emails that seemed to show climate scientists manipulating global warming data: “I mean is someone using differences in semantics to try and play up a controversy that’s not really there?”Brewer spoke with Politico reporter Erica Lovely about the emails in…
Climate Alarmist Threatens NYT Reporter With 'Big Cutoff
December 7th, 2009 4:16 PM
Some climate alarmists are so invested in their beliefs and corresponding policy preferences that even a joke at their expense is grounds for disownment. New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin saw this trend first-hand when he cracked a joke about Copenhagen prostitutes, and was threatened with a "cutoff" by one of the world's leading alarmists."My lord. Copenhagen prostitutes push back on…
CNN's American Morning Leans Towards ClimateGate Deniers
December 7th, 2009 3:10 PM
Monday’s American Morning on CNN covered the ClimateGate scandal extensively, but slanted towards those who deny that the exposed e-mails amount to much. Anchor John Roberts let the interim director of the Climate Research Unit at the center of the controversy give his talking points without question. Out of the four segments on the scandal, two featured skeptics of the theory of manmade climate…
Bozell: Nets Cover ClimateGate, But Load Story with Bias
December 7th, 2009 1:48 PM
"Well, NBC, ABC and CBS finally got around to reporting on ClimateGate" but it "wasn’t worth the wait," Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell said in a statement today. [Click here for the full press release]"NBC and ABC’s reports were so biased, they left their audiences as ill-informed afterwards as they were before. And CBS came about as close to blacking out…
To the Networks, Tiger Woods Gossip 15 Times More Newsworthy Than Clim
December 7th, 2009 1:44 PM
If ABC, NBC and CBS's judgment is correct, Tiger Woods's infidelity is more important than a climate change scandal involving high profile scientists, potentially ‘manipulated' data, and censorship of skeptics among the scientific community. How much more important? Over 15 times. Despite the impending Copenhagen climate conference, the networks ignored the ClimateGate scandal for 13 straight…
56 Papers Issue Joint Editorial Demanding Action On 'Profound Emergenc
December 7th, 2009 1:27 PM
The earth is burning, the earth is burning! And it's all our fault! That's the essence of an editorial slated to appear in 56 newspapers worldwide today, including at least one in the U.S. Michelle Malkin pointedly notes that we aren't likely to see much interest in ClimateGate out of these "Chicken Little" publications. Here are some paragraphs from the very deep, very wide fever swamp, taken…
CNN Runs Report on ClimateGate, But Only Includes Guests Who Dispute C
December 7th, 2009 1:57 AM
On Sunday, during the 6:00 p.m. hour and again during the 7:00 p.m. hour, CNN NewsRoom, hosted by Don Lemon, ran a report by correspondent Mary Snow on ClimateGate -- which was somewhat more balanced than the piece aired on November 25 -- though this report similarly did not quote any of the emails that suggest manipulation of data on global warming by scientists at the UK's University of East…