Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue" Cover

Business and Media Institute ^ | 4/18/2008 | Jeff Poor

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Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover Time editor tells MSNBC 'there needs to be a real effort along the lines of World War II to combat global warming and climate change.'

By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 4/18/2008 9:40:43 AM

For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion – to push more global warming alarmism.

The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag and replaced the flag with a tree. The cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green “the new red, white and blue.”

Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute on April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a “disgrace.”

“It’s an absolute disgrace,” Mates said. “Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.”

Mates also said making the comparison of World War II to global warming was erroneous and disrespectful.

“The second world war we knew was there,” Mates said. “There’s a big discussion. Some say there is global warming, some say there isn’t. And to stick a tree in place of a flag on the Iwo Jima picture is just sacrilegious.”

According to the American Veterans Center (AVC), Mates served in the 3rd Marine Division and fought in the battle of Iwo Jima, landing on Feb. 24, 1945.

“A few days later, Mates’ eight-man patrol came under heavy assault from Japanese forces,” Tim Holbert, a spokesman for the AVC, said. “During fierce-hand-to-hand combat, Mates watched as his friend and fellow Marine, Jimmy Trimble, was killed in front of his eyes. Mates was severely wounded, and underwent repeated operations for shrapnel removal for over 30 years.”

Lt. John Keith Wells, the leader of the platoon that raised the flags on Mt. Suribachi and co-author of “Give Me Fifty Marines Not Afraid to Die: Iwo Jima” wasn’t impressed with Time’s efforts.

“That global warming is the biggest joke I’ve ever known,” Wells told the Business & Media Institute. “[W]e’ll stick a dadgum tree up somebody’s rear if they want that and think that’s going to cure something.”

Time managing editor Richard Stengel appeared on MSNBC April 17 and said the United States needed to make a major effort to fight climate change, and that the cover’s purpose was to liken global warming to World War II.

“[O]ne of the things we do in the story is we say there needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate change,” Stengel said. “It seems to me that this is an issue that is very popular with the voters, makes a lot of sense to them and a candidate who can actually bundle it up in some grand way and say, ‘Look, we need a national and international Manhattan Project to solve this problem and my candidacy involves that.’ I don't understand why they don’t do that.”

Holbert, speaking on behalf of the American Veterans Center, said the editorial decision by Time to use the photograph for the cover trivialized the cause the veterans fought for.

“Global warming may or may not be a significant threat to the United States,” Holbert said. “The Japanese Empire in February of 1945, however, certainly was, and this photo trivializes the most recognizable moment of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history. War analogies should be used sparingly by political advocates of all bents.”

Stengel also appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on April 17 and had no difficulty admitting the magazine needed to have a “point of view.”

“I think since I’ve been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of the things that’s needed in journalism is that you have to have a point of view about things,” Stengel said. “You can’t always just say ‘on the one hand, on the other’ and you decide. People trust us to make decisions. We’re experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel strongly about something let's just say so.”

Time has been banging the global warming drum for some time now. In April 2007, Time offered 51 ways to “save the planet,” which included more taxes and regulation.

[gallaxyglue]

Veterans are up in arms!

[wastedyears]

How I wish to see that on a newspaper...

[messierhunter]

The very same vets that saved freedom over 60 years ago are fighting for it again with their words. The day “green” replaces “red white and blue” is the day freedom dies. They’re basically admitting that they think we need to trade in our freedom for their “world-saving” marxism. It starts with our lightbulbs, then our cars, and finally they’ll tax us to death till we’re all dependent on “government aid” for survival, economy and america be damned. Obama admitted it, he doesn’t care about the economy, he thinks its only fair to penalize “rich white people” for being “rich white people.”

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Meanwhile, Cindy McCain was co-hosting on “The View” this morning.

The first thing she said was how important global warming is and how we as a country need to do more to fight it and how it’s one of her husband’s key issues. I wanted to smack her.

[messierhunter]

Yeah, just one more reason why I care very little who wins this election. Though Obama scares me, whoever wins, we lose. We’re going to get the canidate we deserve this time.

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“[O]ne of the things we do in the story is we say there needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate change,” Stengel said. “It seems to me that this is an issue that is very popular with the voters, makes a lot of sense to them and a candidate who can actually bundle it up in some grand way and say, ‘Look, we need a national and international Manhattan Project to solve this problem and my candidacy involves that.’ I don't understand why they don’t do that.”

You smarmy little creep! What does that have to do with angering and offending the survivors of Iwo Jima??

Global warming is BULL CRAP, not matter HOW "popular it is with voters". Voters are ignorant of the facts! They should sue Time Mag over this. They really should. Every single thing the average conservative thinks or says "offends" some special interest group...but just let the LEFT cause offense (and offense is an understatement, "cardinal sin" was better) and the offended gets a micro-intellectual attempt at justification that would make a FIVE YEAR OLD think the lefties are amateurs.

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" 'I have felt that one of the things that’s needed in journalism is that you have to have a point of view about things,' Stengel said. 'You can’t always just say "on the one hand, on the other" and you decide. People trust us to make decisions.' "

That's not journalism, that's propaganda!

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Just how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by human activity?

It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not.

This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many "facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).

Human activites contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.

More at geocraft.com

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“I think since I’ve been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of the things that’s needed in journalism is that you have to have a point of view about things,” Stengel said. “You can’t always just say ‘on the one hand, on the other’ and you decide. People trust us to make decisions. We’re experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel strongly about something let's just say so.”

Beyond the disrespect for veterans this smarmy turkey thinks we are supposed to trust journalsits as experts? What a crock!

[Grunthor]

I had 1 to 2 inches of snow on my front lawn Saturday morning. I live in Western Washington State.

Global warming is a myth.

[Grunthor]

How dare you. Her husband is a Republican. That is supposed to make it ok to be a global warming cultist. Did you not get the memo?

[JennysCool]

People trust us to make decisions. We’re experts in what we do.

Yeah, right.

Buncha English majors pretending they know it all.

I think time's about up for Time.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[cake_crumb]

68 percent feel the press is unfair and out of touch with the public on most issues. The approval rating of the press is lower than that of the president! What people, what trust?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Yes, I got the memo. I think I used it for toilet paper....I believe in recycling. sarc/

One thing about McCain; I thought he once said that he would only sign on to a Kyoto-type agreement if China also agreed, and there’s no way China would sign on to an economy destroying agreement like Kyoto, so perhaps there’s hope. (Or was it Bush that said that?)

[samadams2000]

Shake out all the subscription litter cards and drop them in the mail for processing.

[pfflier]

This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases

This should make you wonder what happens when we take hydrogen and oxygen (either elemental or bound in compounds other than water) and convert them into water in a concentrated area.

Consider an urban area with a high density of fuel cells. Would the exhaust product of water vapor affect areas downwind of the city? Would that create weather patterns that are different? Would those weather patterns change the heat exchange characteristics of the area? Would we be creating an environmental impact that results in local warming, cooling or altered weather?

It seems like our "solution" could become the next problem.

[DMZFrank]

Those heroic Marines in that photo were fighting for freedom. The fraudulent enviromental movement is a front for the Watermelon (green outside, red inside) Marxists who would use this hoax to impose bureaucratic tyranny and depotism upon us.