Posted on 04/25/2010 10:49:39 PM PDT by bronxville
For more than two decades, the so-called mainstream media have preached the dangers of manmade global warming, insisting American businesses and consumers must make massive economic sacrifices to ward off a global climate catastrophe. Not even last November’s exposure of e-mails from leading scientists on the alarmist side of the debate — showing them conniving to fudge or suppress data, discredit critics and distort the peer review process — has caused journalists to finally take a skeptical approach to radical environmentalists’ doomsaying.
A new study from the MRC’s Business & Media Institute documents how ABC, CBS and NBC have been just as strident in their advocacy in the months following “ClimateGate” as they were in the 20 years that preceded the scandal. At the same time, a review of the Media Research Center’s archives going back to the late 1980s shows just how strongly reporters have pushed the liberal line on global warming.
Here are just some of the many examples:
■ “Global warming could mean economic upheaval. It could bring suffering. It could bring starvation....The causes of global warming are no mystery. The biggest culprit is carbon dioxide, or CO2, a bi-product when man burns fossil fuels to run cars or generate electricity....If we fail to act, there may be hell to pay in a hotter world....Global warming is not a fact, just a widely-held theory. The problem is, if man waits for proof, it may be too late.” — Host Don Harrison narrating CNN’s primetime Climate In Crisis special, August 1, 1989.
“As the science editor at Time, I would freely admit that on this issue we have crossed the boundary from news reporting to advocacy.” — Time’s Charles Alexander at a September 16, 1989 global warming conference at the Smithsonian Institute, as quoted in the October 5 Wall Street Journal.
■ “If the world is to head off the risk of global warming, with its danger of massive crop failure, or rising sea levels, or spreading starvation in the poorest countries, then America — the largest producer of the gases that cause global warming — is in the spotlight.” — ABC reporter Ned Potter on World News Tonight, April 7, 1992.
■ “Environmentalists see catastrophes of biblical proportions, from droughts to melting ice caps that send sea levels rising.” — Correspondent Barry Petersen on the CBS Evening News, December 1, 1997.
■ Karen Kerrigan, Small Business Survival Committee: “To say that the science is conclusive...is actually bunk.” Host Ted Koppel: “I was just going to make the observation that there are still some people who believe in the Flat Earth Society, too, but that doesn’t mean they’re right.” — Exchange on the December 9, 1997 Nightline.
■ “After decades of rancorous debate, only a handful of the most doctrinaire die-hards still dispute the idea that human activity is heating up the planet.” — Time’s Michael Lemonick in a special edition for Earth Day, 2000.
■ “Despite the danger that climate change poses, the resources currently devoted to studying this problem — and combating it — are inconsequential compared with the trillions spent during the Cold War. Twenty years from now, we may wonder how we could have miscalculated which threat represented the greater peril.” — Time contributor Eugene Linden, September 4, 2000.
■ “Around the world, the anger runs as deep as the flood waters being blamed on the global warming the Kyoto treaty was supposed to fight. President Bush says he’s putting American economic interests first in rejecting Kyoto, and in Britain, where they’re having their wettest winter ever, they sadly agree....Others point to severe weather conditions around the planet — flooding for the second consecutive year in Mozambique, drought and famine in the Sudan — and they say the U.S. is substantially to blame.” — Mark Phillips on the March 29, 2001 CBS Evening News.
■ “Frankly, this notion that there isn’t enough science, I mean that’s right up there with does smoking cause lung cancer.” — Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift discussing global warming on the McLaughlin Group, June 16, 2001.
■ “Glaciers are receding. Oceans are rising. Alaska is thawing. As officials from nearly 180 nations start to gather Monday in Bonn, Germany, to confront the vexing problem of global warming, the issue is no longer whether it is real, but what should be done about it.” — Opening of July 16, 2001 USA Today front-page article, “Six ways to combat global warming,” by Traci Watson and Jonathan Weisman.
■ Weatherman Mark McEwen: “Up and down the East Coast, it’s coming our way, but we will probably see just rain in the big cities.” Co-host Bryant Gumbel: “We never get any snow.” McEwen: “Do you think it’s global warming?” Gumbel: “Yes, yes.” McEwen: “Do you, Jane?” Co-host Jane Clayson: “Yeah.” McEwen: “We’re unanimous....It’s global warming.” — Exchange on CBS’s Early Show, February 6, 2002.
■ “ExxonMobil — I think this is a real group of bad guys, considering that they have funded all the anti-global-warming propaganda out there in the world. And Bush is just not going to go against guys like that. They are bad, bad guys, because of what they are doing in fighting the science of global warming.” — New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in an interview published in Rolling Stone, October 17, 2002.
■ Peter Jennings: “We’re going to take ‘A Closer Look’ tonight at why the temperature matters to all of us when it is affected by global warming. And just to be clear again, global warming is the gradual increase of the temperature of the Earth’s lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in manmade gases since the industrial revolution....”
Reporter Bill Blakemore: “Severe climate change is accelerating....Polar bears are starving as the ice they hunt on vanishes, along with the seals they eat. Millions of birds are affected as spring comes too early and the fish they eat [have] gone to seek cooler waters.” — ABC’s World News Tonight, November 8, 2004.
■ “The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming....Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue....As the pace of climate change accelerates, many researchers fear we have already entered a period of irreversible runaway climate change.” — Former Washington Post and Boston Globe reporter Ross Gelbspan in an August 30, 2005 Boston Globe op-ed
■ “No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth....Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us....Something has gone grievously wrong. That something is global warming.” — Time’s Jeffrey Kluger in the magazine’s April 3, 2006 global warming cover story: “Be Worried. Be Very Worried.” - see Time picture below.
continued - http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/realitycheck/2010/20100421073059.aspx
Why?
Because the Hoax was the perfect cover for seizure of freedoms and imposition of communism/socialism.
I visited the island of Kauai, Hawaii last week. It was 40 degrees!!!
Yes, I wondered about the who, what, why’s...
“There is an even greater threat that scientists can only speculate about. As global temperatures rise, they may cause the massive West Antarctic ice sheet to slip more rapidly. Then we’ll be facing a sea-level rise not of one to three feet in a century, but of 10 or 20 feet in a much shorter time. The Supreme Court would be flooded. You could tie your boat to the Washington Monument. Storm surges would make the Capitol unusable. For Today, Paul Ehrlich in Washington, DC, on the future shoreline of Chesapeake Bay.”
— Paul Ehrlich acting as a news correspondent for NBC in May 1989
http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2007/globalwarming/ClimateOfBias.asp
I wonder if this is the same Czar Paul Ehrlich?
It’s not in the report but he appears to be the one who started it.
Paul Ehrlich has been promoting a wide variety of hoaxes over the years.
He is an Obama favorite, of course.
bttt
I hope you brought your sweaters. :)
>>I visited the island of Kauai, Hawaii last week. It was 40 degrees!!!
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>I hope you brought your sweaters. :)
Anything below 50 is Damn Cold.
Where I’m from it’s a pleasant spring day.
>Where I’m from it’s a pleasant spring day.
That’s one reason I live in New Mexico.
The bottom line: Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, carbon money, old money, new money, State money, Federal money, Grant money, Tax money, Your money, My money, Corporate money, private money, play money, advertsing money, stolen money, Algore's money, Soros' money, our grandchildrens' money, fiat money, real money, funny money, foreign money, domestic money, money, money, money, money, money, money....
Excuse me while I LOL! (50 above zero is shirtsleeve weather here!)
Yes, and both he, his wife and Czar Holdren are all eugenicists and ecologists. Interesting stuff on them out there...
Paul Ehrlich gave his oration in May, 1989 continued by the media beginning this time in August 1989 -
Then surprisingly Maggie Thatcher weighed in -
November 8 1989, Margaret Thatcher - UN speech on global warming -
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107817
Was Lord Monckton her science advisor at that time?
Anne Ehrlich 1989 - United Nations’ Global 500 Roll of Honour for Environmental Achievement (1989)
Anne Ehrlich served as one of seven outside consultants to the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Global 2000 Report (1980)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/CCB/Staff/anne.htm
Anne Ehrlich -
The membership of the Sierra Club recently re-elected Mrs. Ehrlich to the board...
Mrs. Ehrlich is the associate director of Stanford University’s Center for Conservation Biology (CCB). The Center was founded by Mrs. Ehrlich’s husband, Paul, who is current president of CCB. Since at least 1995, the oil giant Chevron has funded CCB....
http://www.counterpunch.org/ehrlich.html
Hmmm and she’s also a member of the Club of Rome.
Wouter van Dieren - Between 1978 and 1988 he was vice-president of Ecoropa, the European Ecological Association and won the Rachel Carsen Medal. He’s also into eugenics and a member of the Club of Rome.
The Erhlichs and Holdren -
“...study became particularly prominent in the 1960s and 1970s, as in the 1973 work of Paul Erhlich, Anne Erhlich, and John Holdren.”
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3045301049.html
It appears that the Erhlichs and Holdren were the instigators of this nightmare...interesting that two of them are now Czars of Chairman Zero and she’s on the board of the Club of Rome. They have our future mapped out already. The only fly in their ointment is the Tea Party.
I enjoy visiting warmer climates but would miss the seasons. I lived in Texas for a few years. I loved the people but missed the seasons.
We have seasons, Winter, thaw, hot, freeze, winter...
Agree it’s all about money and lefties don’t like spending their own. They were expecting lots of our money at the Climate Summit but didn’t get any and were pissed. A couple of months later we “discover” all this crap with the banks and they need more money along with Freddie and Mae with slush funding on the side. Where is the money going? Whose tracking it? We’re the only people in the western hemisphere with any money left or the means to borrow it though that’s about dried up. Europes money has already been drained. These people want money for a reason. What’s the reason - that is - besides power?
That's it. Their version of the Golden Rule: "He who has the gold, makes the rules".
All else is just a mechanism by which to concentrate wealth, by hook or by crook. They are looting America.
Noted.
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