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Written by Dan Gainor, Business and Media
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| on Oct 3, 2008, 12:29 PM E.S.T.
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Magazine editors honor global warming image that angered veterans.
How
do you get nominated for a magazine award? Do something that offends
almost everyone and tears down an American icon at the same time. Even
better, claim you were just trying to get “attention.”
That’s
certainly the strategy Time magazine deployed and they are seeing the
benefits. Time’s persistent global warming hype led it to run a cover
photo of the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima – only the magazine deleted the flag and replaced it with a tree. The cover read: “How To Win The War On Global Warming.”
The cover, skewered by veterans, critics and even the National Press
Photographers Association, was just nominated for an award from the
American Society of Magazine Editors. Time was even picked as a 2008 Best Cover Concept Finalist for the design – competing with The New Yorker, Wired and Vanity Fair.
The controversy began with the April 28 issue when Time doctored the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag. The cover story by Bryan Walsh called green “the new red, white and blue.”
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Written by Dan Gainor, Business and Media
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| on Sep 17, 2008, 05:18 PM E.S.T.
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 Predictions of open water prove incorrect as 1.74 million square miles of ice survive.
So much for the media hype about Arctic ice disappearing this summer.
Less than three months ago, NBC’s Anne Thompson was warning ominously of ice loss. “But this summer, some scientists say that ice could retreat so dramatically that open water covers the North Pole, so much so that you could sail across it.”
Both are still with us – the ice and the hype. According to a September 16 National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) report, such predictions were off by 1.74 million square miles.
NSIDC reported ice loss was less than in 2007. “On September 12, 2008, sea ice extent dropped to 4.52 million square kilometers (1.74 million square miles). This appears to have been the lowest point of the year, as sea has now begun its annual cycle of growth in response to autumn cooling,” according to the organization.
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Written by Piers Corbyn, Astrophysicist WeatherAction long range forecasters
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| on Sep 17, 2008, 02:55 PM E.S.T.
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 BBC2 ‘Climate Wars’ is FRAUD WITH LIPSTICK SAYS SCIENTIST - BBC ATTACKED FOR LACK OF INTEGRITY AND CHALLENGED TO DEBATE
1. This ‘Climate wars’ production is a shameful and desperate effort from the BBC’s ‘green religion department’ to shore up the failing theory of CO2 driven Global warming and Climate Change. The piece, and the Global Warmers camp in general, while pretending to be objective skilfully avoid applying sound science and provide no answers to the mounting evidence which refutes the crumbling Global Warmers theory. It puts lipstick on scientific fraud but it remains fraud.
=> They selectively report part of ‘weak’ sceptics contributions which are muddled and AVOID proper interviews with scientists who can soundly refute every wriggle of the Global Warmers mantra.
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Written by BRIAN M. CARNEY, WSJ
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| on Sep 7, 2008, 12:29 PM E.S.T.
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Sarah Palin has gotten some rough treatment from the
media since John McCain announced his vice presidential pick. In her
speech last week, she gave a little jab back at "all those reporters
and commentators." That won't likely win her many new admirers in the
Washington press corps. But Rasmussen has a new poll out that suggests
that piling on Mrs. Palin may do more to harm the media's own image
than hers.
According to Rasmussen, fully 68% of voters believe
that "most reporters try to help the candidate they want to win." And
-- no surprise -- 49% of those surveyed believe reporters are backing
Barack Obama, while just 14% think the media is in the tank for Sen.
McCain.
Meanwhile, 51% of those surveyed thought the press was "trying to hurt" Mrs. Palin with its coverage.
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Written by Phillip Stott, Global Warming Politics
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| on Sep 5, 2008, 03:24 PM E.S.T.
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“So
the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the
cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into
it as their Neolithic ancestors would have had.” (C. P. Snow, 1959)
On May 7, 1959, the English physicist and novelist, C. P. Snow, Baron Snow (1905 - 1980), presented the Rede Lecture in the Senate House of Cambridge University. His talk was entitled ‘The Two Cultures’, and it was based on an article he had written previously for the New Statesman
magazine (October 6, 1956). In this now famous lecture, Snow lamented
the wide gulf that he perceived to exist between scientists and
“literary intellectuals”, a theme which he also explored in his series
of novels collectively known as Strangers and Brothers.
His powerful lecture was subsequently published as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, and it engendered a furious debate.
Snow was scathing about the arrogance of the literary elite:
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Written by Thomas Richard, Climate Change Fraud
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| on Aug 18, 2008, 02:58 PM E.S.T.
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NostraDame Sharon Begley
There are certain journalists in our great country who seem to take pride in their self-loathing prognostications.
There's Bryan Walsh of Time magazine who has taken it upon himself to be the green goblin of doom, making sure we're all aware of our destructive impulses. We have Juliet Eilperin at the Washington Times whose prose literally palpitates with resentment and anger toward any person or thing that emits carbon dioxide.
To complete this trinity of tragedians is our Idiot of the Week: Sharon Begley. She is the chief environmental writer for Newsweek magazine, and when its very lax fact-checkers give an article a thumb's down, that's when her blog Lab Notes comes in handy.
Begley and Newsweek demonstrate that the standards of accuracy are the same as writing fiction: Certain characters, public figures and locations are real, but events and studies described in this blog are used in a fictitious manner.
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Written by Eric Glasser, WPTV
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| on Aug 13, 2008, 03:54 PM E.S.T.
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Just a few months ago, experts made the cold-blooded prediction that
global warming would allow the Burmese Python to put the squeeze on the
southern one-third of the United States by the end of the century.
But now a new, more complex study suggests the big snakes may never slither their way out of the Sunshine State.
"They're staying in Central Florida and below," says Hillary Dupont of Wild Cargo Pets in West Palm Beach.
Dupont says she agrees with the newer study produced by City University of New York.
For all their size, pythons, she says, can't handle the cold.
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