ABC Reporter Mocks Global Warming 'Denialists,' Calls for More Alarmist Advocacy

Newsbusters ^ | 4/23/12 | Scott Whitlock

[Nachum]

ABC reporter and global warming enthusiast Bill Blakemore on Sunday condescendingly dismissed climate change skeptics as "denialists." In a piece on ABCNews.com, he called for yet more advocacy on the part of journalists.

After noting that confidence in the science of climate change has varied from year to year, Blakemore huffed that these beliefs "don't seem to be responding all that much, [Professor Jon Krosnick] says, to whatever the global warming denialist campaigns may have been doing."

Blakemore then lectured meteorologists for not being biased enough:

A number of America’s TV meteorologists and other broadcast weatherpersons have been accused by peer-reviewed climate scientists either of being greatly uninformed about the science of the basics of manmade global warming, or, at the very least, of shying away from any mention of it during broadcasts for fear of losing ratings by driving their audience away with worrisome news.

Instead, complain these scientists, U.S. TV weather journalists, feeling the need to provide some explanation for the unusual weather, often escape into a simplistic nearest-cause answer, blaming the extreme weather on “the jet stream,” while avoiding the science that connects the jet stream’s behavior to manmade global warming … as well as ignoring other larger global patterns that also project such extremes.

[Nachum]

ABC: Alarmist Broadcast Communists

[Boonie]

I watched two comedies on TV yesterday.....
“The Day After Tomorrow” and “2012”

Both HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

So what, exactly, are this guys credentials for assessing scientific accuracy?

[healy61]

Bill stopped being a journalist and became an alarmist advocate the minute he opended his cake hole. All cake hole with him, too.

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[palmer]

while avoiding the science that connects the jet stream's behavior to manmade global warming

Not that this isn't obvious to everyone here, but there's no such science. Models cannot predict the behavior of the jet under global warming or any other circumstances. If they could, we would have accurate weather forecasts.

[Huebolt]

Any “authority” talking such Chicken Little fantasy should be required to ride a bicycle everywhere, eat only what they can grow in their yard, and wear only what they can produce without any impact on any living thing.

Then they can authoritatively show us what they expect of us.

[oh8eleven]

the global warming denialist campaigns
Sorry Charlie, we have no campaigns, only truth.
The Loonie Left are the ones with the campaigns.

[Da Coyote]

A reporter?

An ABC reporter?

Does anyone even imagine that this loon could pass a science course?

Bwahahahahahahahahah!!

[Huebolt]

Models cannot predict the behavior of the jet under global warming or any other circumstances.

Well put. It is like predicting EXACTLY how a piece of glass will break when hit with a hammer, or exactly how a snow flake will look before it forms.

Nature loves CHAOS...

[GOPJ]

Some of these nuts want to burn our homes down to punish us for not believing their global warming lies. I don’t understand why the Secret Service isn’t looking into these threats from liberals.
Are they too busy whoring around on our dime?

[GOPJ]

So what, exactly, are this guys credentials for assessing scientific accuracy?

Easy - they add up the 'cool people' and if there's enough of the in crowd that believes it's true, then it's true. Science by vote... Think of it as like high school - no, think of it like junior high...

[Oberon]

I think the sensible position on "climate change" is remarkably simple, and has two major points:

1. The Earth's climate is a dynamic system with literally millions of input parameters. We should expect it to change. If it were stable over time, that would be the amazing thing... so yeah, incremental changes in climate should not be particularly surprising nor alarming.

2. Thinking that we:
a) can fully understand it,
b) have any influence on it, or
c) can do anything about it
requires a huge (and thus far unwarranted) logical leap from where we stand right now.

[bray]

How does this Elixir salesmen explain why the earth is cooling? Oh yeah, Global Warming.
We have a much better chance of having another Ice Age than warming.

Pray for America

[GOPJ]

U.S. TV weather journalists, feeling the need to provide some explanation for the unusual weather, often escape into a simplistic nearest-cause answer, blaming the extreme weather on “the jet stream...."

Oh God, ABC reporters are soooooooo stupid. It like IS the jet stream that's causing this rather warm winter. Guess Blakemore's jealous of the folks at NBC who can twist tapes to give false impressions like they did with Zimmerman. Too bad meteorologists have more integrity. Then again, almost every profession has more integrity than the MSM... Eff you ABC...