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Media Manipulation

How the BBC pretended to be balanced on 'climate change'. And, failed, obviously

Written by James Delingpole, Telegraph | 30 August 2010

Sir Crispin
Sir Crispin

I have just been listening to Uncertain Climate, the first in BBC “Environment Analyst” Roger Harrabin’s two-part Radio 4 investigation into the politics of climate change. The announcer  introduced it as a programme “on an unusual aspect of global warming that you won’t have heard in the news headlines.” This was touching but would only have been accurate had it added the phrase “if your only source for those news headlines is the BBC website.”

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The Media’s Katrina Fantasy

Written by Christian Toto, Human Events | 29 August 2010

View of the eyewall of Hurricane Katrina.
View of the eyewall of Hurricane Katrina.

It’s been five years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans—and helped shred the remaining respect consumers had for the mainstream press.

Covering natural disasters isn’t easy. In the swirl of the chaos some facts get misrepresented, or lost, through human error. And some news anchors distinguished themselves with their coverage, including Anderson Cooper who forged his current cred with his reportage.

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Media Use Crazy Weather to Hype Global Warming, Despite Admissions Weather Isn't Climate

Written by Julia A. Seymour, Business & Media Institute | 19 August 2010

cartoon-enviro-nutter-humorLast winter, as blizzard snowfalls piled up into several feet in the nation’s capital, conservatives mocked global warming alarmists for trying to link weather incidents to global warming. But as summer heat waves, volcanoes and sinkholes have appeared recently, climate alarmists proved they missed the point.

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Weather or climate? It's a question of time

Written by Paul Wornham, Environmental Policy Examiner | 16 August 2010

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Recent news stories have raised the temperature of global warming rhetoric, comparing extreme weather events in Russia and Pakistan to Biblical predictions of planet-wide doom and a fear that even if mankind halted all industrial activity today it’d still be too late to save Earth from a fiery death.

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Climate Porn - 2010

Written by Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog | 16 August 2010

climate porn

Today, the New York Times takes its turn with extreme weather and global warming.  The article has this wonderful quote from Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at NASA and blogger at Real Climate:

If you ask me as a person, do I think the Russian heat wave has to do with climate change, the answer is yes.  If you ask me as a scientist whether I have proved it, the answer is no — at least not yet.

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For Climate Change Piece, ABC's Dan Harris Skips Agenda of Global Warming Scientist

Written by Scott Whitlock, Newsbusters | 13 August 2010

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Good Morning America's Dan Harris on Friday filed a report on extreme weather and failed to mention the agenda of a global warming scientist. Elizabeth Vargas teased the segment by fretting, "And coming up next, from killer heat waves to fires to those devastating floods in Pakistan and in Iowa, why all the severe weather? Is it global warning?"

Harris interviewed no skeptics of man-made global warming for the piece. He did, however, talk to scientist Gavin Schmidt, identified only as working for NASA.

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Ye're all going to dieeee

Written by Dr. Richard North, EUReferendum | 12 August 2010

Has just seen An Inconvenient Truth

Die, I tell you, die ... ye're all going to die, die a most horrible death ... die, yes you ... die. And so reports the BBC: "Many more people will die of heart problems as global warming continues, experts are warning," they tell us.

"Climate extremes of hot and cold will become more common and this will puts strain on people's hearts, doctors say ... A study in the British Medical Journal found that each 1C temperature drop on a single day in the UK is linked to 200 extra heart attacks."

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Catastrophe Catnip

Written by Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog | 10 August 2010

Bryan Walsh
Bryan Walsh of Time Magazine

Ed. Note: Bryan Walsh has a long history of stoking the embers of hysteria to suit his own agenda. This is just one more example of his pick-and-point journalism.

Journalists are drawn to the notion that greenhouse gas emissions increase the human toll from extreme events like Ulysses was drawn to the sirens.  The connection between the two is made despite a robust scientific consensus -- and lack of evidence to the contrary -- that no signal beyond increasing societal vulnerability has been detected in increasing disaster losses, much less attributed to the effects of accumulating greenhouse gases.

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The BBC: still biased

Written by James Delingpole, Telegraph | 09 August 2010

"I was on the ground in New Orleans, and anyone who was there felt it was global warming."
"I was on the ground in New Orleans, and anyone who was there felt it was global warming."

Driving back from our annual two-week red-kite shooting holiday in deepest Wales with our friends the Monbiots (George, Mildred, and their delightful daughters Anthropogenina and Arrheniusa) this weekend, I tuned into BBC Radio 4’s Any Answers. (This is the show where ordinary members of the public phone in to give their views on matters arising from Any Questions – which I’m on this Friday, of which more anon.)

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Comment On A Washington Post Editorial “The Truth About Global Warming” – Another Media Disconnect

Written by Climate Science | 03 August 2010

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Phil Jones

There is an editorial today in the Washington Post titled “The truth about global warming” which illustrates the failure of the author of this editorial to properly investigate claims in the NOAA report regarding the climate system. This is yet another media disconnect with the real world. I am discussing just one of their erroneous claims here.

The article writes:

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What a difference a day makes

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 28 July 2010

hot day in DC

[July 27, 2010 — National Geographic News] Thanks to a combination of global warming and an ocean-warming El Niño event, 2010 is set to become one of the hottest years ever recorded, a new report says. [snip]

"It's too early to extrapolate and say it's the hottest" year ever recorded—a title currently held by 2005. But 2010 "will almost certainly be at least the third or fourth warmest on record," said Derek Arndt, head of the Climate Monitoring Branch of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.

[July 28, 2010 — ONE DAY LATER] The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today released its "2009 State of the Climate Report."

Its conclusion? Global warming is "unmistakable." And indeed, some strange, hot-weather environmental phenomena lately appear to buoy that conclusion.

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