Hot Scandals

American Journalism Center ^ | December 7, 2009 | Sarah Carlsruh

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Hot Scandals

Sarah Carlsruh, December 7, 2009

More than 1,000 emails and 3,000 data files from University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) recently exposed a global warming deception. CRU research is at the center of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports “upon which the UN and the Kyoto process base everything they do,” claimed Myron Ebell at the Heritage Foundation’s conservative Blogger’s Briefing on December 1st. Ebell is the director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). He called the CRU scientists “con men,” saying that these emails confirm that “a lot of what they do is dishonest and fraudulent” in a conspiratorial effort to sell the story of global warming.

The mainstream media, when it has covered this topic at all, has portrayed this as a case of hacked and stolen information presented out of context. Ebell responded that it is “hard to take things out of context where you say ‘let’s figure out how to hide the decline’―that is the decline of temperatures.” If it were up to the mainstream media, claimed Ebell, this scandal would already be over, but diligent bloggers will not let it die and will ensure that it goes on for years.

Tim Carney, author of the recently published Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses, exposed another media-shunned topic at the Blogger’s Briefing. The media has consistently parroted President Barack Obama’s narrative that he is standing up against big business in defense of the consumer, said Carney....

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More than 1,000 emails and 3,000 data files from University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) recently exposed a global warming deception. CRU research is at the center of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports “upon which the UN and the Kyoto process base everything they do,”

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