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Global Warming? Journalism? Don't Make Me Laugh!
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February 15, 2007 Global Warming? Journalism? Don't Make Me Laugh! By Alan Caruba (AXcess News) S. Orange, NJ - As a very young man, fresh out of college and the army in the mid-1960's, I found myself employed as a rookie reporter on a weekly newspaper in New Jersey. I had never taken a course in journalism in my life, but I could write. The managing editor of the newspaper group that serviced a number of communities taught me all I ever needed to know about journalism. He taught me to be skeptical of everything and everyone. Not distrustful. Skeptical. People will tell you the truth they believe or want you to believe. They may be wrong. Or they may be deceitful. There's a difference. However, when error and deceit combine, there is a purpose, an agenda, and it exists, as often as not, to acquire wealth and power despite the harm it will leave in its wake. At the heart of what is wrong with journalism today is that legions of journalists will stand shoulder to shoulder for the sole purpose of deriding any "global warming skeptic" rather than wonder for a second how the "news" of a coming Ice Age in the 1970s became the "news" of Global Warming in the 1980s. I am reminded of this daily as I read newspapers and news magazines in which various reporters blithely and deliberately inform the reader that all questions regarding the existence of global warming have been answered, that the science is beyond doubt, and that the cause is the production of greenhouse gases, largely from industry, transportation, and other human activities. This is not merely an error. It is a complete deception the journalists have joined. They have ceased to be skeptical. They want you to stop being skeptical despite all evidence to the contrary. "Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist," says Dr. Timothy Ball. He has Ph.D. in climatology, having earned his degree from the University of London, England, and taught for many years at the University of Winnipeg. A Google search of his name turns up a plethora of posts attacking him, always a sure sign that the Greens feel threatened by an outspoken scientist. The quote below explains why: "Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science." Dr. Ball is hardly alone in his views. Dr. Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and a professor of meteorology at MIT, as well as a member of the National Academy of Science, has said of Global Warming that, "the consensus was reached before the research had even begun." Increasingly, not just climate scientists, but people in leadership positions around the world have joined in rebuking the Global Warming hoax. Czech President Vaclav Klaus is only the most recent, joining Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who, in 2006, received a letter from sixty prominent scientists expressing opposition to the theory of Global Warming. The list is growing as other scientists in France, Denmark and around the world speak up. There is something quite horrible about the complete failure of America's journalists to even acknowledge there might be something terribly wrong about the theory of Global Warming. So far the published science that purports to support the theory has been severely challenged and even disproved to the point of having deliberately falsified data. Too many journalists have remained steadfast to this greatest hoax of our times, publishing the most astonishing nonsense about the North Pole melting or all the polar bears disappearing. Anything can be attributed to Global Warming, but the premise of a rapidly warming Earth is baseless. The Earth warmed barely one degree Fahrenheit from 1850 to 1950 and there is no evidence of further warming. Anyone who challenges the "truth" of the global warming charlatans is demonized and compared to Holocaust deniers. Others are routinely accused of being in the pay of corporate interests. My own background as a public relations counselor has been cited as "proof" that I cannot be trusted. However, in nine years of writing a weekly commentary, my credibility would be in shreds if my facts were wrong. Is this new generation of journalists indifferent to the truth? Do they arrive at their job imbued with a mission to save the world? Do they believe that inconvenient facts can and should be ignored? This is not journalism. It is advocacy. The former belongs in the news columns, the latter on the editorial and opinion pages. For the week leading up to and following the recent release of the United Nations climate report summary, the front pages of America's newspapers proclaimed that Global Warming was real, millions would die from starvation, and the fresh water resources of the world would go dry by 2080. The final report is not due out for months and, like previous reports, what "science" is cited to support this balderdash will be thoroughly encumbered with words like "could", "may", "might", "is believed", or "is predicted." These are mushy words that scientists abhor. They want proof. The final report will actually be altered to reflect the initial summary. That is not science. It is propaganda. We look to journalists to present facts as accurately and dispassionately as possible. When they tell you the Earth is doomed, look for an alternative source of information. |
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Global Warming? Journalism? Don't Make Me Laugh!
Obviously I am wasting my time but: Do you have health insurance? Home insurance? Car insurance? Most people would say yes to at least two of these. Yet the vast majority don't actually need them. Problem is, if you do need them and don't have them, you're screwed. If 90% of the world's climate scientists agree that "CLIMATE CHANGE" is real, then it doesn't take much brain power to realise that we should do what we can to reduce human impact on this. If we are right, our grandchildren will thank us. If we are wrong, we have lost nothing. If we procede as business as usual and CLIMATE CHANGE is real, then trying to fix it up when it is too late is like being that person with no insurance at a time when they really wished they'd taken it out earlier. Too damn late. -- patch70 |
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"patch70" wrote in message
news If 90% of the world's climate scientists agree that "CLIMATE CHANGE" is real, then it doesn't take much brain power to realise that we should do what we can to reduce human impact on this. By all means demonstrate that 90% of the world's scientists agree with global warming. That is a complete and utter lie promolgated by the media and the Global Warming myth perpetrators. |
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On Feb 19, 7:31 pm, patch70 patch70.2ma...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com wrote: Obviously I am wasting my time but: Do you have health insurance? Home insurance? Car insurance? Most people would say yes to at least two of these. Yet the vast majority don't actually need them. Problem is, if you do need them and don't have them, you're screwed. If 90% of the world's climate scientists agree that "CLIMATE CHANGE" is real, then it doesn't take much brain power to realise that we should do what we can to reduce human impact on this. If we are right, our grandchildren will thank us. If we are wrong, we have lost nothing. If we procede as business as usual and CLIMATE CHANGE is real, then trying to fix it up when it is too late is like being that person with no insurance at a time when they really wished they'd taken it out earlier. Too damn late. -- patch70 Lost nothing??? The Kyoto protocols would cripple the world's greatest (ever) economy and yet accomplish nothing because China and India will more than make up for any carbon-based pollution reductions taken in the US. We'd lose everything. Fred |
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Tom Kunich Wrote: By all means demonstrate that 90% of the world's scientists agree with global warming. That is a complete and utter lie promolgated by the media and the Global Warming myth perpetrators. Sure Tom, and the world is flat, the Easter Bunny is real, and cycling is free of doping... -- patch70 |
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On Feb 19, 10:13 pm, patch70 patch70.2ma...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com wrote: Wrote: Lost nothing??? The Kyoto protocols would cripple the world's greatest (ever) economy and yet accomplish nothing because China and India will more than make up for any carbon-based pollution reductions taken in the US. We'd lose everything. What the? A truly bizarre argument. The losses would be that a few very wealthy CEOs might have to accept a salary of 10 million pa rather than 15. And smart CEOs would realise that there is plenty of money to be made in going green. Someone has to make money selling clean energy just as those promoting 'dirty' (ie CO2 producing) energy will have reduced profits if we go down the sensible pathway. If those fossil fuel sellers have half a brain, they will be the ones to put the money into the clean energy and will therefore offset any lost profits. I thought the US considered itself a world leader. If they are, then they should lead on this rather than say "we won't do anything until China and India lead the way". -- patch70 Nothing bizarre about it at all. First, you have to understand it's not just about you and your car. If you factor in the costs to industry to meet the Kyoto protocol requirement, which by the way the industries of China and India, and the rest of the developing world for that matter, don't have to meet, you'd see that what we're really talking about is a UN effort to equalize the economies of the world by destroying the US economy, not by bringing up the economies of the rest of the world. I'm not asking China or India to lead anything. What I really would like is for the "oh, ****, the sky is falling" crowd to acknowledge that there's an almost non-existent correlation between CO2 emissions and temperatures, but a 100% correlation between the fluctuations of world temperatures and sunspot activity. Hell, the explosion of Krakatoa in 1883 put more pollutants into the atmosphere in one fell swoop than man has in the history of mankind. The sky is not falling. Fred |
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