Global Warming

The Associated Press on Thursday published an article that very much went counter to all the climate change alarmism so prevalent in the media since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005.Conceivably more shocking was the headline the Washington Post chose for the version published at its website: “Could Some Win With Global Warming?” According to LexisNexis, AP’s headline on all its versions…

Just when you thought it was safe to have drinks near your computer, the global warming alarmists have created a diet to help you reduce your carbon footprint.I wish I was kidding. Hysterically, I’m not.As reported in Tuesday’s Washington Times (h/t NBer Blonde, emphasis added throughout):Attention chubby do-gooders, and maybe Al Gore. The global warming diet is here.The article deliciously…

MRC intern Joe Steigerwald wrote the following post.You've got to give credit to Al Gore, he certainly knows how to play the mass media like a fiddle, particularly NBC.Eight days ago, NB editor Brent Baker picked up on an NBC Universal press release about how the peacock network and its sister networks will cover the upcoming Live Earth concerts a grand total of 75 hours.That doesn't count the…

I got this in my Facebook inbox a few minutes ago from FreedomWorks staffer Brendan Steinhauser. The YouTube video (slight content warning for coarse language) is appended below the fold:We were protesting Gore's appearance at George Washington University when one of his supporters decided he didn't like what we were saying. What did he do? Watch!

Since the left has, in Alexander Cockburn's words, become "entranced by the allure of weather as revolutionary agent" comparisons between liberal globalwarmingism and socialism are becoming increasingly apt.One of those comparisons comes on the question of income inequality and environmental correctness. No radical leftist can tell you just how far the government should go to "fix" this "problem…

Alexander Cockburn is certainly on a mission, albeit one that is shocking the folks at The Nation are tolerating. After all, in his current article posted at both The Nation and Counterpunch, Cockburn indirectly castigated his own readers as he accused the left of having “been swept along, entranced by the allure of weather as revolutionary agent, naïvely conceiving of global warming as a crisis…

Given the American media’s fascination with spreading global warming alarmism, how likely would it be to see the following headline in one of our papers:Top Scientist Says Biofuels Are Scam.Not very likely, right?Well, such was the headline in England’s Sunday Times today (emphasis added throughout, h/t Alister McFarquhar):

It has become clear to anyone with eyes and an open mind that the worldwide ban on DDT that is just now in the process of too-slowly being lifted has caused massive loss of human life over a period of decades that could, and should, have been avoided. So you would think that the person who began the DDT scare in the early 1960s would be discredited, or her work at least shunted to the background…

On Thursday, a NewsBusters headline asked “G-8 Statement Regarding Climate Change: Will Media Use It to Bash Bush?”The answer: Most definitely.From print to television, the formal declaration published by the group of eight most developed nations emanating from their summit in Germany was depicted as a winner for the host country’s chancellor Angela Merkel, while George W. Bush was the big meanie…

More headline editorializing, this time on Yahoo. A June 5 Reuters article titled, “Bush bashes Putin on democracy on eve of G8 summit” sounds like Bush attacked Russian president Vladimir Putin, but the body of the article clearly did not support that view. The headline told a very different story than the article. Editors not reporters are generally responsible for headlines, and they can…