Posted on 08/09/2007 3:28:37 AM PDT by rellimpank
Now even the partisan-resistant public must acknowledge what conservatives have known for a long time: that Newsweek is driven by a leftist agenda, even if they won't acknowledge it themselves.
That can't be illustrated more clearly than by the magazine's cover story this week, titled "Global Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine." Science writer Sharon Begley writes proudly and passionately in what she obviously thinks is an eye-opening expose' about the conspiring entities who "deny the science of climate change." Her Woodward and Bernstein-like prose tracks money passages from big energy producers to intellectual skeptics, who exist to undermine what she says is the consensus view: that human-induced worldwide warming is a threat to the planet's existence. Begley bemoans the results of a new Newsweek poll that "finds the influence of the denial machine remains
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Anyone else notice the left has stopped calling it “global warming” and switched to “climate change”. I guess they got tired of being laughed at everytime a record cold temperature was reached in someplace that is supposed to be baking. Or someplace experiences flooding, that was supposed to be bone dry.
My sister is a meteorologist who says man caused global warming is BS. But what does she know? It’s not like she’s a journalist.
Why that would make one think it’s more propaganda than science.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Statist buearacrats have long wanted additional tax revenues on consumption so they are likely suspects and/or a “UN Tax”. Under the aegis of “Climate Change”, all manner of nonsense can be foisted on the public. Likely be a “carbon tax”.
Well they are “progressive” after all.
If it’s well funded, where do I pick up my check???
Awwww... the author... a little goebel wannabe is upset... lying biotch!
LLS
I was speaking of “Science writer Sharon Begley”.
LLS
FYI -
Citizens in Great Britain may soon be hit by a blitz of top secret green taxes to combat the socialist bogeyman called global warming, reports the Daily Mail.
Under this proposal, the government would grab billions of pounds of extra revenue by not telling motorists when gas prices go down. So everytime petro prices drop, the tax on petro would automatically rise. So rather than drivers seeing that extra savings in their pocket, the government would keep the price high and grab the extra money for itself.
Then there’s talk of raising the annual road tax from a maximum of £210 to £5,000 in order to “combat car use and ownership.”
And a “pay per mile” tax could be added.
Next, Brits could see a washing machine tax, a dishwasher tax, a dryer tax, a lightbulb tax and an air travel tax.
Finally, the Tories plan to install “spies” in dustbins to impose a “rubbish tax” on households that throw away non-recyclable refuse.
The grand total of new taxes for a family of four would be an additional £1,163 per year.
For every dollar spent by global warming skeptics, there are 10,000 spent by global warming propagandists. That is where the real conspiracy is.
I guess because Mayor Bloomberg has presidential aspirations all New York City residents in my area have been mailed at taxpayer expense a glitzy and expensive brochure on hurricanes.Since I know of no hurricane HITTING NEW YORK CITY in my 70 years I immediately looked for the last hurricane to hit New York City. With all the Hurricane ‘facts’in this expensive brochure there was no mention of a hurricane ever hitting New York City.
Can we say "Big Green"?
I once looked into the follow-the-money claims made by the global warming alarmists. They are very lame. They go something like this: Exxon gave money to the Heritage Foundation or the CATO Institute. Shock and horror. Full disclosure, I too have occasionally given money to the Heritage Foundation and the CATO Institute. When Exxon Mobile gives to FreeRepublic, it’ll really hit the fan.
The amount given to free market think tanks is very small compared to the money given by the EPA for climate research. Every EPA dollar has a known purpose. One has to prepare a grant request to get the money. Most people are savvy enough to lean on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in their request, which are then funded. This is science with an agenda. The few dollars that are given (freely and without taxation) to free market think tanks, might go to any purpose.
The only hurricane to strike New York City directly was in 1821. I think the Great Hurricane of 1938 was close enough to cause damage, but a great deal of land that is now heavily populated was then undeveloped. Things would be much worse today if a major storm were to hit there.
Here is a good track on journalist reporting on climate:
“Fire and Ice
Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming”
http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/fireandice/fireandice_timeswarns.asp
If the deniers are being so well funded, why doesn't she list the all of the companies that are supplying the funding?
http://hummersandcigarettes.blogspot.com/2007/08/scouts-they-are-changin.html
Who ya gonna believe, us or your lyin eyes?
save
The MSM does not have the intelectual capacity to comprehend the deficiencies of their own world view AND they can not comprehend sane people will point out the defects.
Newsweek is in love with itself and thinks whatever is written in newsweek should be taken as gospel. They are so old media.
Thank you for the information but the the title of the brochure was not MAJOR STORMS.The title was ‘HURRICANES AND NEW YORK CITY’.
Read this !! (The Cooling World: - from your magazine in 1975)
Love,
ML/NJ
And don’t forget to read the January, 1987 issue of National Geographic, where they predict global cooling. I have that issue, and they use the same “consensus” type of “scientific evidence” that they are using now.
“Glo-Bull warming” is just their latest vehicle to gain power over us all, which is all they really want.
Trying to refute illogic and hyper emotionalism of the Leftists with reason is like trying to argue with children - There's just no point to it. The mindset of the true Leftist is like the old Catholic church: They have not erred, they CANNOT err.
There is but one real answer to fanaticism, and that is total defeat. Sad but true.
So science can be used to attack an industry, but when the industry uses science to defend itself, that’s inappropriate?
Circulation figs ain't bad enough, I guess. Interesting way to run a mag.
I say we bring Danny Rather back and put him on the case...if ever there was a jasper who could dig out da trudt of this global warming b.s. it’s tall tower full power dan...the man who was and remains to this VERY day... the VERY essence of c. and every other kind of b.s.
where have you gone
Dann eee Ra a a ther...?
a nations turn’s it’s lonely eyes to you.....woo woo woo....
woo woo woo....
COURAGE!
i reserve the balance of my time..
Newsweek is a hack rag, my god I got a subscription to it once as gift a few years back.. I hadn’t read it in probably close to 2 decades.... it wasn’t great then it was absolute garbage now..... It was like reading the weekly world news only with a higher gloss print.
I know its tough to put out a weekly in an age when news is 24/7... but the one thing you can do is go in depth and actually report something meaningful and deep, not just what people already read about days ago from other sources.... And it should be so hard to keep political agenda out of your delivery when you do it.
Apparently for Newsweek it is....
You don’t need to be part of a conspiracy to know “human caused global warming is a scam”... over 90% of all greenhouse effect is caused by WATER VAPOR!!!! WATER VAPOR!! NOT CO2!!! and 80% of it is WATER VAPOR IN THE FIRST 30 FEET OF THE ATMOSPHERE!! C02 is a microscopically infinitesimle player in the “greenhouse effect”.
C02 does not CAUSE global warming... increased C02 levels in the atmosphere are a follower, not a causation. As the earth cools, C02 winds up trapped in things like the northern tundra, reducing atmospheric levels. As the earth warms and the tundra defrosts that CO2 is released... increases in CO2 are not a cause of warming of the climate, they are a result of the climate warming!
Climate warming and cooling has been going on for over 3 BILLION years, and to believe we are causing it is nonsense... I know its hard for atheistic leftists to believe since in their world view we are gods, but the reality is we aren’t... we are pathetic little ants who could no more destroy the earth with CO2 than we could shift its orbit if we all decided to jump at the same time... its an absolute JOKE scientifically to claim that human activity is causing climate change to any factor that would place life on this planet at risk.
We could blow every last human being to hell, detonate every last nuclear warhead, and life on this planet will continue.. We may kill ourselves off in a violent war, but we will no more stop plants from growing, animals from maiting, and microbes from dividing than we can stop the earth from turning!
These human induced global warming folks are the deniers, they are politically motivated hacks who have absolutely no credibility. The temperature of MARS is increasing, do they wish to argue that SUV’s and Smokestacks are causing that?
The complex system that is our planet is not going to die, right now CO2 levels are about 350 PPM, historically we know they’ve been as high as 450-500 PPM just in the recent past... and life continued on quite fine. CO2 is PLANT FOOD folks, its not the end of the world.
And don’t forget to read the January, 1987 issue of National Geographic, where they predict global cooling. I have that issue, and they use the same “consensus” type of “scientific evidence” that they are using now.
WELL ITS SETTLED THEN....we’re either freezin or we’re meltin...
fear not the algoracle will figure her all out....
either way it’ll be the usa’s fault. you can bet yer life on that....i, for one, am ashamed of myself bhwhahhahaaha for livin’ in a nation that uses so much of the world’s energy so there’s not enuff for everybody else... and plus according to al we pollutes the globe....
its guys like this whut gives us guilt complexes...well he gives libs guilt complexes....
what with this warming thing and reparations and the latch key kid crisis.... hell whats the use in goin on.
im professin islam ism they dont’ pay no never mind to this stuff....akhalakha ding dong ...
or whatever....
thank u for your time.
I remember Hurricane Donna in 1960. It came up from Florida and stayed a hurricane a long time. I just don’t remember whether it was still a hurricane by the time it came up into NYC.
Is she that idiot Ed Begley’s wife?
My educated guess: the Center for American Progress. Background funding comes from George Soros, and is run by Clintonites John Podesta and Harold Ickes. Their paid commentators include Eric Alterman, who, coincidentally, has been pounding the Big Oil/Warming Denier theme recently. Any of you folks who have better contacts than I do are welcome to investigate further, but I am convinced that this is all part of a larger campaign designed to assist the candidacy of a certain junior Senator from New York.
Actually the town folks don’t carry torches anymore because of all the CO2 they release. They are only allowed to carry pitch forks and small cats.
Perused an article on new washing machines. It seems as if the new top-loading models are failing at getting clothes clean. And why is that? They have relocated the water level switches to lower in the tub to save water and energy, which in turn reduces the efficiency of the machine to clean your clothes. So bring back the Maytag repairman; you can surely repair the old one to get a couple more years use out of it.
She's not alone:
Within the spirit of the first amendment, the following broadcast and private meteorologists support an objective consideration and an earnest and open discussion of all aspects of climate change.
Michael E. Adams, Ph.D, Senior Principal Scientist, General Dynamics Information Technology
David Aldrich, Meteorologist, Fox 29 WTXF Philadelphia
Randy Baker, Aviation Meteorologist, KY
William Bauman, Ph.D. Program Manager/Meteorologist ENSCO
Justin Berk, Meteorologist, ABC2 (WMAR), Baltimore
Andre Bernier, Meteorologist, WJW-TV, Cleveland, OH
Sally Bernier, Meteorologist, WJW-TV, Cleveland, OH
Karl Bohnak, Chief On-Camera Meteorologist and author, WLUC-TV, Marquette, MI
Bob Breck, Chief Meteorologist FOX 8, New Orleans
Mark Breen, Senior Meteorologist, Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, VT
Tom Chisholm, Chief Meteorologist, WMTW ABC Channel 8 Portland, ME
Anthony J. Colby, Meteorologist, WKYC-TV 3
John Coleman, Chief Meteorologist, KUSI-TV-9. San Diego and founder of The Weather Channel
Paul Cousins, Managing Director, AtmosForecast, Portland, ME
Bob Durrenberger, Past President, American Association of State Climatologists
Terry Eliasen, Meteorologist/Executive Weather Producer, WBZ-TV, Boston, MA
Gordon J. Fulks, Ph.D., Physicist, Gordon Fulks and Asssociates. La Center, WA
Arlo Gambell, CCM, Aviation Meteorologist, Nashua, NH
Mel Goldstein, Ph.D., Chief Meteorologist News Channel 8, Hartford, CT
Eugenio Hackbart, Chief Meteorologist, MetSul Meteorologia Weather Center, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil
Jeff Halblaub, Meteorologist, Byron Center, MI
Ross Hayes, former CNN Weather Producer, NASA Balloon Facility
Art Horn, Meteorologist, The “Art” of Weather. Manchester CT
Craig James, WOOD-TV, Grand Rapid, MI
Tim Kelley, Meteorologist, NECN, Boston, MA
Kevin Lemanowicz, Chief Meteorologist, Fox 25, Boston, MA
Jerry Lettre, Senior Meteorologist, WSI, Andover, MA
Peter McGurk, Senior Meteorologist, WSI, Andover, MA
Bill Meck, Chief Meteorologist, WLEX-TV, Lexington, KY
Dennis Miller, Former Senior Meteorologist/Programmer, WSI
Nick Morganelli, Free-Lance Meteorologist NECN, WFSB
Ben Papandreau, Senior Meteorologist, Andover, MA
Christopher Plonka, Major, Meteorologist, USAF
Jason Russell, Freelance TV Meteorologist, Albany NY, City Councilor, Westfield, MA
Terry Safford, Private Meteorologist. Lt. Col. USAF
Bruce Schwoegler, Meteorologist,Chief Technology Officer, MySky.com
James R. Stalker, Ph.D., President, RESPR, Inc., Las Cruces, NM
Bill Steffen, Meteorologist, WOOD-TV, Grand Rapids, MI
Herb Stevens, The Skiing Weatherman, Grass Roots Weather, North Kingston, RI
Dennis Stewart, Meteorologist, Account Executive, AWS
Brad Sussman, Meteorologist, FOX 8 Cleveland
Kevin Williams, Chief Meteorologist, WHEC Rochester, NY
We need to be thankful for these people. If it were not for them, we would still be thinking that our bright, eager, well-scrubbed kids could get a decent education in a stultifying classroom filled with kids just like themselves and totally missing the wonderful, enriching experience with "diversity."
We right-wing morons had better just give up thinking for ourselves and start accepting the lead of those who know better. [/sarcasm]
Now if she were a climate physicist, I would believe you. ;)
Not just partisan, but ignorant.
The screed-writer, Sharon Begley, is clearly not up to thinking critically.
It was in 1938 -- when you were one.
“well-funded” or well-reasoned???
Global Warming is one of the largest global hoaxes of all time - “deniers” are said to be stupid without convincing data.
Nobody funded me - but I don’t buy this “global warming” crap.
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