Big Media bloviation by The Washington Post and other gasbags about
man-made global warming pretends that political science is science.
The bias at most news outlets about climate alarmism -- and the
indifference about reporting anything that diverges from the alarmist
orthodoxy -- can be seen in a Post story on the Nongovernmental
International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), as Lorne Gunter of
Canada's National Post reminded recently.
The NIPCC is a counterbalance to the United Nation's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which blames man for global
warming. Washington Post readers learned the NIPCC has ties to
conservative politicians and that the Heartland Institute, which
sponsored the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change this
month, received money from Big Oil and Big Health Care.
The Washington Post got it half right. Not taking anything
at face value is wise, especially regarding such a white-hot issue. But
since it's not settled science, both sides should face the same
exposure.
Skeptics of the Al Gore orthodoxy blaming man must be looked at closely by the media -- and should welcome that to help establish their credentials to a brainwashed public.
But Mr. Gore's true believers must be held to the same standard.
Science and reason don't generate the hot air produced by politicians
and the U.N. Source
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