Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/29/2009 4:40:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sigh. Here we go again–maybe. When certain facts or developments in a story don’t support the line of reportage the MSM wants to pursue, too often, they simply resort to non journalism by omission, perhaps in the hope that their non coverage will make it go away.
It appears that Climategate may be the next big story receive the old MSM general cold shoulder. From a story in today’s AP, byline Arthur Max:
The U.S. and China have yet to address the critical issue of how to raise the hundreds of billions of dollars needed annually to rescue poor countries from storms, floods and drought that are expected to become more severe as greenhouse gases worsen…Scientists say the industrial countries must slash carbon emissions by 25 to 40 percent by 2020 below 1990 to prevent the Earth from adding two degrees Centigrade (3.6F), the maximum considered safe. In addition, developing countries need to lower their emissions growth by 15 to 30 percent from business as usual, according to the authoritative U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
None of this is settled science, as one would think reading the story in a vacuum. Indeed, all knowledgeable climate scientists do not say that we must “slash carbon [dioxide] emissions by that amount, as the term “scientists say,” implies. Accuracy requires the story to say, “some scientists,” or perhaps even, “many scientists,say…” And thanks to Climategate, the IPPC is not so authoritative anymore (if it ever really was). Indeed, Climategate has called the entire field into significant question generally, and the IPCC opinion specifically. Until the matter is fully investigated–not a quick hearing and a shove under the proverbial rug–climate change hysteria will remain under a cloud that all the media wishful thinking and malpractice will not disperse.
There was a time when the media prided itself on being a skeptical counter weight to the Establishment. Now, they consider themselves part of the Establishment. The entire field would be better off if reporters started practicing real journalism again.
And maybe, just maybe, they are starting to do just that. Today’s New York Times has a real story about the controversy that actually reports on the importance and meaning of Climategate. From the story, byline Andrew C. Revkin,:
Some prominent climate scientists are calling for changes in the way research on global warming is conducted after a British university said thousands of private e-mail messages and documents had been stolen from its climate center. The scientists say that the e-mail messages, which have circulated on the Internet and which disclose the inner workings of a small network of climatologists who chart the planet’s temperature, have damaged the public’s trust in the evidence that humans are dangerously warming the planet, just as many countries are poised to start reining in greenhouse gas emissions.
“This whole concept of, ‘We’re the experts, trust us,’ has clearly gone by the wayside with these e-mails,” said Judith Curry, a climate scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology. She and other scientists are seeking more transparency in the way climate data is handled and in the methods used to analyze it. And they argue that scientists should re-evaluate the selection procedures used by some scientific journals and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the panel that in 2007 concluded that humans were the dominant force driving warming and whose findings underpin international discussions over a new climate treaty.
But for alternative media’s pressure, I doubt this story would be in the paper. Still, the ice may, at last, be melting. Real journalism sells papers. Where the NYT goes, the rest of the MSM tend to follow.
Or facts.
NYT’s Revkin is part of the “manmade global warming” hysterics and his name appears in the emails. He’s represents the propaganda arm of the group.
Another nail in the coffin of the credibility of the exMSM.
The exMSM just ain’t who they used to be
Ain’t who they used to be
Ain’t who they used to be
The exMSM just ain’t who they used to be
The People don’t believe them any more!
NYT’s Revkin is a member of the “manmade global warming” hystericals and his name appears in the emails. He’s represents the propaganda arm of the group.
Some epiphany. He makes sure to say "stolen", to direct blame at someone else and in hope of casting a little doubt on their legitimacy. As far as I know it has yet to be established that they were "stolen".
Which is bigger, the scientific scandal or the journalistic coverup?
Does anyone really believe that the scientists in China or other nations that are not part of the AGW sub-fetish of watermelon environmentalism are going to march down lemming-like off the cliff with the freaks in Europe or America? They know bovine excretement when they can see it.
The last I heard, China was cranking up new coal-fired power plants at the rate of one to three every week, and has no intention of slowing down or stopping.
The MSM’s refusal to practice honest journalism is similar to a hyena cuddling with a helpless rodent!
Hey, Mr. Po-leeceman! Some dude done broke into my house. An he stole my weed! I musta had a pounda shit in here! Looka here. He left behind some. So what you gonna do bout it?
Al Gore once said something to the effect that protesters could surround construction sites of coal fired power plants, and prevent them from being built. I wonder if Al wants to go to China and pick such a target??????
It only makes sense to me that a whistle blower, in a moment of conscience and duty, with access to this information has seen fit to make sure it finds the light of day. Probably knowing full well the implications for unrestrained glowBull warming at next month's HopenChangen conference. Indeed, I wonder if there are a group of whistle blowers who planned not only the timing, but the substance as well. I note that this erupts close if not exactly 30 days prior, indeed even with youtube parodies out within the first week of its release.
I would love for him to try.
LOL!
The old gray lady she ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be
The old gray lady she ain't what she used to be
Many long years ago.
Hi Vet hope all is well.
nail on head ref your post.
They have pushed this so far that they will never let up on it now even if this is one of the biggest scams the world has seen.
Gore is now close to a billion thanks to the dummies who believe it and the radical left who push it
I spent a little time yesterday browsing around a few of the pro-AGW blogs such as “Climate Progress” etc. and their talking points are already very well rehearsed: isolate the emails and authors as merely a “few” and marginalize them as necessary (even if they did happen to be right smack in the middle of the IPCC process for years and years).
With a sycophantic media ala Revkin it won’t be too hard to ignore and bury as much of the story as possible, meanwhile trumpeting when necessary that some “changes” have been made in some of the practices.... all the while denying that anything bears upon the underlying “science”
This is the one article out of all the Climategate articles I chose to print out for personal distribution. This is the link for the printable version= http://www.brookesnews.com/093011gwscandal_print.html
Only a Revolution is going to stop this BS, I stand with everyone here, incredulous that this is happening right in front of me,right now, waiting for someone to do something. But there is no one, They are going to sink the future of our country financially, spiritually, rip the guts right out of Her.
The sooner the better
If Watergate happened today ( under a dem President ) the Washington Post would play deep throat as a Linda Tripp wannabee. It would be brutal... You're right - they ARE the Establishment now.
This baby ain't making it to COPENHAGEN!
We know that the MSM are biased and have lost all credibility. However, scientists are supposed to be objective and follow the scientific method/process.
Objectivity is the cornerstone of their profession.
Right you are! The British press is reporting that if Cap and Trade passed, it would make Al Gore the world's first carbon credit billionaire.
But hey, the non-existent original data were all peer reviewed!
There never was anything "green" about a particle of it. It is just where commies ran after their previous lies went stale.
bump
... and pull the Federal funding as to find out who really gives a rats ass about the subject.
They're upset the emails undermine the cause, not that there's dishonesty. It's like being sorry you got caught, not that you committed the crime.
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