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| "Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. |
| 2009-12-03 |
| ABC didn't cover it. CBS didn't either. And NBC apparently wouldn't go near it. The network news broadcasts have ignored a growing scandal over evidence of a potential climate cover-up -- and now they've even been scooped by the fake news at Comedy Central. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" produced its "reporting" on Climate-gate Tuesday night, when Stewart quipped, "Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. Oh, oh, the irony!" Stewart described leaked e-mails from Britain's University of East Anglia, including one referring to a researcher's "trick" to "hide the decline" in some temperature readings in recent decades. "It's just scientist-speak for using a standard statistical technique -- recalibrating data --- in order to trick you," Stewart said sarcastically. Nearly two weeks since news broke of the e-mail scandal, climate change skeptics have gloated; a leading climate scientist has resigned; at least one U.S. lawmaker has called for an investigation, and countless prominent news outlets have deemed the story worthy of major reporting. Still, according to a report Wednesday morning by the conservative Media Research Center, "none of the broadcast network weekday morning and evening news shows addressed Climate-Gate or the incriminating Jones development. ... This marked 12 days since the information was first uncovered that they have ignored this global scandal." The Business & Media Institute had just as much trouble finding the networks' Climate-gate coverage. "An examination of morning and evening news programs on ABC, CBS and NBC since Nov. 20 yielded zero mentions of the scandal, even in the Nov. 25 reports about Obama going to Copenhagen to discuss the need for emissions reductions," the Institute reported Wednesday. But during that time, the Institute says, "the networks reported on pro-golfer Tiger Woods' 'minor' car accident at least 37 times. They also found time to report on an orphaned Moose and the meal selection at the president's State Dinner." Media Research Center President Brent Bozell reacted to the findings saying, "To pretend this story simply doesn't exist is damning to journalism." That left Stewart to fill the void -- with his analysis of the scientists' decision to discard the raw data used to formulate the adjusted data that much of the scientific community agrees confirms global warming. "Why would you throw out raw data from the '80s? I still have Penthouses from the '70s!" he joked. |
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| #10 "Perhaps he is coming to San Antonio, instead: they're forecasting a snowfall tonight/tomorrow, and I can't think of anyone else who could be responsible for this outrage!" Then he must be flying to Virginia the next day, Sgt. Mom. We're supposed to get cold rain and then snow on Saturday. WHERE THE HELL'S MY GLOBAL WARMING?! |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-12-03 21:58 |
| #9 And the Goracle himself has canceled his appearance in Copenhagen... Oh, my - to have been a fly on the wall - or to have installed a listening-device on the wall of the room where that was decided. Perhaps he is coming to San Antonio, instead: they're forecasting a snowfall tonight/tomorrow, and I can't think of anyone else who could be responsible for this outrage! (No s**t, folks, really. I've covered all my plants, and we plan to stay home tomorrow. I've seen the locals drive on wet streets, no way am I taking my chance with snow...) |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2009-12-03 19:50 |
| #8 Oh, and the polar bears did not survive, of course. This lot are a separate creation, a genuine miracle, designed to foster our faith. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-03 16:50 |
| #7 The press here isn't paying any more attention than absolutely necessary either, European Conservative. It's the blogosphere that originated and is expanding the story. What says the European blogosphere? As for the amount of change, I'll believe it when the thermometers are not set up to collect skewed data (on a roof next to the building air conditioner's heat exchanger, really?) The blog Watts up with that? has collected photos of interesting instrument placements for quite some time -- 'scientists' can get so creative! Click the Projects tab at the top to see what's been discovered. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-03 16:46 |
| #6 @tw If we believe those scientists, the Earth has warmed about 0,8 degrees in 100 years. But now it's like an auction. I have 2 degrees in 50 years, I raise you 5 degrees, who says 6? And there is nothing to back up those theories than with falsificated data. It was much warmer in the Middle Ages. Wine did grow in Norway. Greenland... ok you get it. How did the polar bears survive? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-12-03 16:22 |
| #5 It's not about climate change as such, European Conservative, but Anthropogenic Global Warming, ie the hypothesis that the climate changed is mainly changed by human actions, and therefore we have to drastically change how we live in order to prevent dangerous harm to the climate. Utterly amusing given the article posted here the other day that stated our actions to prevent dangerous expansion of the ozone hole over the south pole may have caused the current, ever-so-dangerous climate situation. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-03 16:15 |
| #4 It's amazing how Climategate is almost completely ignored in the German press. How brainwashed do they think we are. I don't think climate change is a hoax. Climates change, they always have and will. We should spend our money adapting to the current climate, not wasting trillions on trying to "change" it. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-12-03 16:08 |
| #3 Admirable indeed. Nonetheless, at the end of the Mr. Stewart's rant, he states that this does not change the fact that AGW is real. (See video here) Incidentally, I just spoke to a friend living near London a few minutes ago, and she'd heard nothing about the brouhaha. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-03 16:06 |
| #2 Congratulations to Jon Stewart who also covered the ACORN videos at a point when most mainstream "news" sources were desperately trying to ignore it. I have far more respect for an unabashed lefty like Stewart who is willing to face a few inconvenient truths than I do for those who pretend to be objective yet refuse to acknowlege anything which challenges their assumptions. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2009-12-03 13:41 |
| #1 Fox News and Comedy Central--definitely an unlikely pair, but they're the only channels airing anything about "Climategate". Looking daily at the Seattle area news websites for all our TV stations and our two newspapers, all I've seen is one short blurb about the original hacker intrusion nearly two weeks ago and no follow up stories at all. There is one local talkradio site (www.MyNorthwest.com) that won't let it die, fortunately. Just like the Tea Parties, the MSM wants to keep a lid on this--we've got to keep pushing it out there. |
| Posted by: Dar 2009-12-03 12:42 |