A case study on what happens when somebody makes an assertion about a Fox News personality without doing some elemental research into what he actually says or believes. Continue reading
Category Archives: Media
Bizarre ‘Fox Lies’ video: Alleged “Climate-Denying O’Reilly Fan” Now Believes Global Warming is Real
Posted in Climate Change, Media
Tagged al gore, Bill O'Reilly, Brenda Ekwurzel, Fox News, global warming, Joe Bastardi, Sean Hannity
Frontline Responds to Complaints on Oct 23 “Climate of Doubt”: Here, the Rebuttal to Frontline that PBS Ombudsman Won’t Put Online (*update)
(*11/19/12 update: a slight variant of this piece below was placed online at WUWT on 11/17. It would have appeared before this one, but as Watts notes at the top of my guest post, we had a glitch happening with spam filters. Also, please note the edits below at complaint points 2 & 3, courtesy of a WUWT reader)
On October 25th, JunkScience readers saw a partial version of Tom Harris’ guest post at Anthony Watts site, a complaint about a specific error seen in the 10/23 PBS Frontline program “Climate of Doubt”. Several other posts at Watts’ site raise serious concerns about the program’s arguably unfair treatment of anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming critics.
I jotted down my own while watching the 10/23 broadcast, and distilled thirteen of those the following day into an email complaint to the PBS Ombudsman. My letter appeared at the PBS Ombudsman site November 5th, seen about halfway down the page here, accompanied by Frontline’s point-by-point rebuttal. What follows is my rebuttal to Frontline, which, I’ve been assured, will not appear at the Ombudsman site. Continue reading
Gore’s Climate Reality Project begs Debate Moderator Jim Lehrer: Ask Romney and Obama about Climate Change
A petition drive to con Lehrer into bringing up the issue with the presidential candidates appears to be banking on the flip-flops of Governor Romney’s position, but this could backfire in the most spectacular way if Romney issues a mea culpa on who gave him advice on global warming when he was governor, and if Romney asks why Lehrer’s PBS NewsHour has not told its audience about the skeptic side of the issue for 16+ years. Continue reading
Pierre Gosselin: Spiegel 1974: “Temperatures Over Last 20 Years Have Dropped Faster Than At Anytime In The Last 1000 Years”
Looking back at the Spiegel archives, here’s another report warning of global cooling and that man was the cause: The desert is growing. Continue reading
Curtis Brainard: CBS goofs up the green beat
Only two months after hiring him, CBS News has already botched a report from its new science and environment contributor, allowing him to interview a fire ecologist from The Nature Conservancy without mentioning that the contributor is the lead scientist at the very same group. Continue reading
Posted in Environmentalism, Media
Reporting climate change
The way to improve “reporting climate change” would be to stop doing it. We have no way of telling what a coupled non-linear chaotic system will deliver in a few months time, much less decades hence. We suspect things are likely to get cooler due to the sun’s apparent funk but we will have to wait and see, won’t we. Continue reading
The New York Times v HCA: What Happens When Ideology Trumps Ethics? You Get Sloppy Journalism
It’s been said that all’s fair in love, war and politics, but you have to wonder if the public is served when media outlets let their ideological leanings drive their coverage, leaving collateral damage in their wake. Continue reading
Trevor Butterworth: CDC Funded Study Links Booze Risk With “Unusually Suggestive” Clothing
What exactly is “unusually suggestive” clothing – compared, say, to plain old suggestive clothing? Continue reading
PBS NewsHour: “Please fill out a survey about our science and climate change coverage”
Their survey is at this link, a reasonably short one where question 13 happens to read: What issue(s) related to climate change do you think should be covered in future reports? Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, IPCC, Media, Uncategorized
Tagged global warming, mainstream media, PBS NewsHour, skeptic scientsts
Peter C Glover: Worstall, Carbon Tax and Floating Polar Bear Syndrome
Tim Worstall doesn’t argue the scientific case for global warming. He openly admits he doesn’t understand the issue on the grounds that he “isn’t a scientist” or climate expert. Unfortunately, neither are most of the ideologues running the discredited UN IPCC“scientists” – nor is there any such thing as a ‘climate expert’. Continue reading
Who can we tell? Who can we telephone? “Don’t rely on Hollywood to stop ‘doomsday asteroid’”
“It will take more than Bruce Willis to save the Earth from a giant doomsday asteroid, according to scientists.“
Someone did tell them Armageddon was just a movie, right?
Like The Day After Tomorrow, War of the Worlds, An Inconvenient Truth, Them, The Blob, Gasland and Alien versus Predator, these are all just works of fiction, simple fantasy and escapism to be enjoyed with popcorn. You are not really supposed to believe William Shatner captained a spaceship or that Bruce Willis blows up asteroids when not hitting golf balls at greenpeace (actually the golf ball thing is appealing enough to be plausible). Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Media, Risk assessment
Richard Black: Climate science and acts of creation
The role of formal scientific processes in climate science appear to be under threat as never before. Continue reading
John Hinderaker: U.S. News And Greenpeace Collaborate On Global Warming
We have written here and here about the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. Continue reading
The WSJ is apparently not trying hard enough to scare you witless with enviro nonsense
““Not Grounded In Facts”: Environmental Journalism Veterans Slam Wall Street Journal Editorial Board”
As if environment journalists could recognize a fact even if it leapt up and bit them on the buttocks, especially when it comes to “glowbull warming”. Continue reading
Phelim McAleer: Rewarded for breast-cancer lies
Breast cancer is uniquely frightening. Almost everyone knows someone who’s had it, and too many of us know someone it’s killed. Continue reading
Posted in Breast cancer, Fracking, Media
Tagged activist propaganda, natural gas, shameless activists
Whither Science Publishing?
As we stand on the brink of a new scientific age, how researchers should best communicate their findings and innovations is hotly debated in the publishing trenches. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Media, Peer review
Luboš Motl: Have Muller or Watts transformed the AGW landscape?
I don’t think so. But let me add a few more words. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Media
Tagged climate hysteria, climate research, hype and propaganda
Jeffrey Simpson: Canada, of all places, should understand climate change
Ontario and Quebec have been baking for months. The fields have turned beige, starved for water. In Vancouver, by contrast, it’s been wet most of the year. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Media
Tagged climate hysteria, dioxycarbophobia, weather superstition
Tim Ball: Without Internet Democracy And Transparency, IPCC Climate Deception Succeeds
Politicians know a country needs an educated work force, but know educated people ask probing informed questions. Information is power, which, until the internet, was limited and controlled by few people. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, IPCC, Media
Tagged climate fraud, climate hysteria, PlayStation® climatology, weather superstition
The “Science” Behind Generating Headlines
Last December, EPA released a draft report on water quality in tiny Pavillion, Wyo., which was immediately seized upon by opponents of natural gas development in the United States (and even around the world) as smoking-gun proof that hydraulic fracturing pollutes drinking water. Continue reading
Posted in Development, Fracking, Media
Tagged activist propaganda, irrational fears, natural gas, shameless activists
