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Written by Tom Richard, Climate Change Fraud
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
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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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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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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Written by Rezwan, Global Voices
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
Bangladesh is a nation which is
on the front line of the consequence of the climate changes. Being a
populous river delta nation it faces the threat of sea level rise due
to global warming. This threat is not new as often floods make hundreds
of thousands of people homeless, because a large portion of the country
submerge under water during large floods. But the resilient people of
this country rise and start all over again to progress as a nation.
Image courtesy: Desh Calling
While the threat of sea-level rise is very much plausible, recent media reports have gone a bit far in indicating that Bangladesh is set to disappear under the waves by the end of the century. These kinds of views have drawn a lot of criticism in the media and in the blogosphere.
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Written by Lori Weddle-Schott, Hutchinson Leader
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
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Since the release of a United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization report in 2006, we’ve heard more and more about the carbon
footprints and the greenhouse gases generated in livestock production.
That report claims that, on a global basis, raising livestock generates
more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in carbon dioxide equivalent
than use of fossil fuels in driving cars and trucks. This story has
appeared over and over again in the media.
A second study that was release by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency didn’t receive much media attention, but it should. The EPA
report titled “U.S. Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks”
crunched the numbers to determine that 80 percent of annual greenhouse
gas emissions come from the combustion of fossil fuels and only 2.3
percent from food animal production.
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Written by Bob Long, Carbon Sense Coalition
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
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What follows is an expanded version of a complaint sent to the ACCC. (The ACCC complaint form limits the amount of text than can be entered.)
I wish to complain about the Australian Government “Climate Change”
advertisement currently showing on Australian TV (August, 2008). The
text of the advertisement is as follows:
“Scientists warn Australia will be hit hard by climate change, with
temperatures rising, water more scarce, and economists warn to protect
our economy we must act now. We’re developing a Carbon Pollution
Reduction Scheme to tackle climate change, putting a limit on carbon
pollution, and encouraging cleaner energy solutions. Think ‘climate’,
think ‘change’. We can’t afford not to.”I claim the advertisement fails
these Advertising Standards Bureau Truth and Accuracy issues:
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Written by L. BRENT BOZELL, Investor's Business Daily
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
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At
a screening of a forthcoming HBO documentary honoring liberal
journalist Helen Thomas in Washington, she was asked whether most White
House reporters are liberal. "Hell, no!" she thundered. I'm dying to
find another liberal to open their mouths. Where are they?"
Is this Grande Dame of Journalism serious? The answer is yes. Since
Ms. Thomas is dying to find vocal liberals in the news media, the least
we can do is point her in the right direction.
Let's see . . .
• ABC's Claire Shipman says the taxpayers, not the politicians,
should sacrifice to close the budget deficit: "If every American were
to pitch in $2,000, we could pay off this year's deficit. . . . Or if
we handed over, each of us, 500 gallons of gasoline or, in terms we
could all really understand, if every American gave up 666 lattes for a
year, we could pay off this year's deficit."
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Written by Tom Blumer, newsbusters.org
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
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Five days after Barack Obama's comic statement that we can eliminate
the need to drill for more oil through proper tire inflation and
getting regular tune-ups, Time Magazine's Michael Grunwald was still
bitterly clinging to the idea that Obama was right.
Grunwald published his attempted Monday defense of Obama's "tired" claim on Monday -- several days after numerous bloggers and others had refuted it.
That didn't stop the Time writer from stepping in it bigtime in his
attempt to defend the indefensible. Grunwald's "analysis" is so pitiful
and woefully incomplete that it deserves a serious slap-down.
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