| CNN's Miles O'Brien Cherrypicks Global Warming Polls; Smears Conservative Group |
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| Written by Amy Ridenour, newsbusters.org | |||
| Thursday, 06 March 2008 | |||
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Page 3 of 3 Little wonder than 83% of those polled were concerned about global warming! Seventy-one percent of those respondents, by the way, self-identified themselves as "intellectual." Must have been an interesting list they polled. Finally, O'Brien fails to note that those expressing concern about global warming included people concerned about natural global warming, too. At issue is not all global warming, but anthropogenic - human influenced - global warming. The poll isn't the only instance of O'Brien being misleading. He cites Dan Fagin, a journalism teacher at New York University, saying that "skeptics have changed their tune as evidence started stacking up against them" - as though changing one’s views as new evidence emerges is an indication of a character flaw. It is, in fact, an indication of integrity. Scientists on both sides of the global warming debate - although not enough - have refined their projections and analyses as data has improved and their understanding of the climate increased. That's part of the scientific method. O'Brien then cited Fagin again, saying, "A decade ago they denied global warming even existed." Absurd. No one suggested anything of the kind as everyone recognizes that global warming is what makes all life on our planet possible. The Heartland Institute has showed no sign of being "desperate" to prove a conspiracy to misrepresent global warming information. But, given O'Brien's report, perhaps it should be. Source 3.26 Copyright (C) 2008 Compojoom.com / Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved." |
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