WaPo Obit Tones Down Climate Scientist’s Recent Attack on ‘Hitlerian Lies’ and ‘Gun-Toting Rightwingers’
WaPo Obit Tones Down Climate Scientist’s Recent Attack on ‘Hitlerian Lies’ and ‘Gun-Toting Rightwingers’
The Washington Post obituary for liberal climate scientist Stephen Schneider, a media favorite over the years to promote the allegedly ironclad certainty of global warming, replayed a very recent jeremiad against "Hitlerian lies" by conservatives in the wake of Climategate. But the Post’s [...]
Students in Constitution Class Are Probably Fringy Militia Types, WaPo Implies
Students in Constitution Class Are Probably Fringy Militia Types, WaPo Implies
Saturday’s Washington Post carried a story by reporter Krissah Thompson on constitution classes in Springfield, Missouri on its front page. The headline was anodyne: “For answers to today’s problems, Fathers know best: Conservative group’s course on Constitution touts founders’ wisdom.” But Thompson is [...]
Hit Job: ABC News Attempts to Align Climate Change Skeptics with White Supremacists
Hit Job: ABC News Attempts to Align Climate Change Skeptics with White Supremacists
At first, Michael Mann, a Penn State professor and a central figure in the Climategate scandal, but best known for his discredited "hockey stick graph" didn’t like being mocked in a YouTube video. Now Mann is alleging he’s a victim [...]
Bill Maher Strikes Back at George Will Armed With Falsehoods and Bill Clinton
Bill Maher Strikes Back at George Will Armed With Falsehoods and Bill Clinton
After making a fool out of himself going up against George Will on last Sunday’s "This Week," Bill Maher dug an even deeper hole five days later trying to strike back at the well-known columnist with a peculiar blend of falsehoods [...]
Investor’s Business Daily: Climategate Gets a Whitewash
Investor’s Business Daily: Climategate Gets a Whitewash
The editorial page at Investor’s Business Daily noticed what the major media ignored or downplayed, once again: the latest Climategate development. They headlined their Friday editorial "Climategate Gets a Whitewash." The University of East Anglia commissioned two independent inquiries into what became known as the Climate-gate scandal. But just [...]
USA Today Defends Michael Mann on Front Page, Misrepresents ClimateGate
USA Today Defends Michael Mann on Front Page, Misrepresents ClimateGate
USA Today on Thursday devoted a front page story to defending one of the key scientists involved in November’s ClimateGate scandal.
In a piece entitled "Questions about research slow climate change efforts," author Brian Winter — oh the irony! — omitted important information about [...]
NPR: Global Warming Skepticism Due to Narrow ‘Worldview’
NPR: Global Warming Skepticism Due to Narrow ‘Worldview’
Wow!
It’s like Christoper Joyce of National Public Radio is completely unaware of ClimateGate. Phil Jones? Never heard of him. Oh, he is the former head of Britain’s Climatic Research Unit who now admits manipulating data? No matter. You see, we have our minds made up and [...]
Accuweather’s Bastardi Takes on Bill Nye & Global Warming on FNC
Accuweather’s Bastardi Takes on Bill Nye & Global Warming on FNC
On Monday’s The O’Reilly Factor, FNC’s Bill O’Reilly hosted a debate between global warming skeptic Joe Bastardi of Accuweather, and Bill Nye of PBS’s Bill Nye the Science Guy, known for recently declaring that it was "unpatriotic" to dispute global warming. Bastardi argued that recent winter weather patterns are [...]
Climate-What? As UN Climate Chief Quits, AP Throws Pity Party; PJM’s Rosett Applies Reality Check
Climate-What? As UN Climate Chief Quits, AP Throws Pity Party; PJM’s Rosett Applies Reality Check
Yvo de Boer resigned yesterday as Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Here are three key passages from the official announcement at the UN’s web site:
The top United Nations climate change official said today that [...]
Rachel Maddow Cherry-picks Glenn Beck To Call Him A Liar
Rachel Maddow Cherry-picks Glenn Beck To Call Him A Liar
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Friday cherry-picked statements from Glenn Beck’s radio show to accuse him of lying about global warming.
In a brief segment on the MSNBC program bearing her name, Maddow said the Fox News star claimed the snowstorm that hit the East Coast this [...]