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September 27, 2006
Hot & Cold Media Spin: A Challenge To Journalists Who Cover Global Warming
Topics: Political News and commentariesOn Monday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee, delivered a speech on the floor of the Senate on the latest developments in global warming that was a detailed stinging rebuke of the media's coverage of the climate debate:
[...] Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930's the media pedaled a coming ice age.It is an inconvenient truth that so far, 2006 has been a year in which major segments of the media have given up on any quest for journalistic balance, fairness and objectivity when it comes to climate change. Recently, advocates of alarmism have grown increasingly desperate to try and convince the public that global warming is the greatest moral issue of our generation. Just last week, the vice president of England's Royal Society sent a chilling letter to the media encouraging them to stifle the voices of scientists skeptical of climate alarmism.
After more than a century of alternating between global cooling and warming, one would think that this media history would serve a cautionary tale for today's voices in the media and scientific community who are promoting yet another round of eco-doom.
Above all, the media must roll back this mantra that there is scientific 'consensus' of impending climatic doom as an excuse to ignore recent science. After all, there was a so-called scientific "consensus" that there were nine planets in our solar system until Pluto was recently demoted."
[...] In fact, after years of hearing about the computer generated scary scenarios about the future of our planet, I now believe that the greatest climate threat we face may be coming from alarmist computer models. This threat is originating from the software installed on the hard drives of the publicity seeking climate modelers.Read all of "Hot & Cold Media Spin: A Challenge To Journalists Who Cover Global Warming".The history of the modern environmental movement is chock full of predictions of doom that never came true. We have all heard the dire predictions about the threat of overpopulation, resource scarcity, mass starvation, and the projected death of our oceans. None of these predictions came true, yet it never stopped the doomsayers from continuing to predict a dire environmental future.
The more the eco-doomsayers' predictions fail, the more the eco-doomsayers predict."
The Senator does have a point. The media has so relentlessly promoted global warming fears that a British group called the Institute for Public Policy Research - and this from a left leaning group - issued a report in 2006 accusing media outlets of engaging in what they termed "climate porn" in order to attract the public's attention.
Related readings:
BBC News: 'Media attacked for 'climate porn'
al-Guardian: The problem with climate porn
Hat tip - Gary G.
Posted by Abdul at September 27, 2006 7:21 PM
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