ClimateGate Ignored, Again -- Broadcast Nets Go with State Dinner Menu
November 25th, 2009 12:46 PM
It probably won't come as any surprise, but coverage of the ClimateGate scandal, which involved the Climate Research Unit at University of East Anglia in Britain suffering a breach of data, was nowhere to be found. Allegedly a hacker broke into the University's computer system and posted thousands of emails and documents showing an effort by scientists, some on the United Nation's…
LAT Breaking: Obama Going to Copenhagen, No Mention of Climategate
November 25th, 2009 12:11 PM
Who's denyin' now? There may not be a better example of establishment media Climategate denial than Jim Tankersley's "breaking" story at the Los Angeles Times's Greenspace blog that President Barack Obama will attend the December 7-19 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Tankersley identifies all kinds of supposed factors that seem to have influenced the president's…
ClimateGate Smoking Gun Found, American Thinker Does Media's Job
November 25th, 2009 11:57 AM
As NewsBusters has been reporting since the ClimateGate scandal first broke last Friday, America's media have either been shamefully ignoring the sensitive information hacked from a British university's computer system or dishonestly telling the public there's nothing to it.If these revelations furthered the global warming myth by implicating skeptical scientists in a conspiracy to adjust…
Glenn Beck Cites NewsBusters to Bash TV's ClimateGate Boycott
November 24th, 2009 11:18 PM
FNC host Glenn Beck on Tuesday cited a NewsBusters article in his attack on all the television news outlets that have boycotted the growing ClimateGate scandal.As NewsBusters reported earlier in the day, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC have completely ignored last week's bombshell story about controversial e-mail messages between some of the world's leading global warming alarmists.By contrast, Fox…
Minnesotans For Global Warming: The ClimateGate Music Video
November 24th, 2009 5:15 PM
Our buddies at Minnesotans For Global Warming have done it again, this time addressing the growing scandal ClimateGate.Using the old Tommy James and the Shondells classic "Draggin' the Line," our friend Elmer Beauregard has marvelously set this disgraceful episode to song.Stow all fluids far from your computer, for the following is guaranteed to induce uncontrollable fits of laughter (video…
A Tale of Two Leaks: NYT Bashed Palin, But Won't Touch ClimateGate
November 24th, 2009 12:41 PM
The ClimateGate email leak has demonstrated in full force a glaring double standard in the mainstream media's coverage of leaked information. Too often, liberal media outlets jump at the chance to damage conservative figures by publishing sensitive information, but refuse to publish such information if it discredits or hinders the left's efforts.As Clay Waters reported yesterday, Andew Revkin,…
Networks That Jumped at Complaints About a ‘Deniers’ ‘Conspiracy
November 24th, 2009 12:20 PM
The broadcast networks still haven’t uttered a single word about the revelations late last week of e-mails showing scientists on the left-wing side of the global warming debate plotting to hide data and silence those on the other side in an effort prop up the notion of a “consensus” on the issue. But when the liberal side of the debate charged that their opponents were involved in a “conspiracy”…
ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox
November 24th, 2009 11:03 AM
The Obama administration has another reason to hate Fox: it appears to be the only national television news outlet in America interested in the growing ClimateGate scandal.Despite last Friday morning's bombshell that hacked e-mail messages from a British university suggested a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists -- many with direct ties to the United Nations'…
G-Warming Promoter 'Dismayed and Deeply Shaken' by ClimateGate
November 24th, 2009 12:40 AM
One of the world's leading promoters of the anthropogenic global warming myth claimed Monday he is convinced the e-mail messages involved in the growing international scandal ClimateGate "are genuine," and he's "dismayed and deeply shaken by them." So said George Monbiot, a writer and environmental activist many consider to be Great Britain's Al Gore.Contrary to what newspapers like the New York…
WaPo: Climate Schemers 'Under Attack' By Skeptics Who Dare to Question
November 23rd, 2009 2:58 PM
The release of internal emails from Britain's University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit shows scientists plotting to ostracize and marginalize other researchers who question their assumptions on anthropogenic global warming. Yet the Washington Post finds that such a strategy is but a natural reaction to attacks on these scientists by climate skeptics.The Post characterizes the CRU, and the…
NY Times Tackles Damning Global Warming Emails, But Also Reveals Own H
November 23rd, 2009 12:45 PM
A trove of emails back and forth among climatologists stolen from a server at the University of East Anglia in Britain has caused shock waves and may even have repercussions against the idea that humans are making a significant and harmful contribution to global warming. The emails include some shockingly shoddy science and venomous attacks on climate-change dissenters by ostensibly objective…
LA Times Changes Its Mind: Science Doesn't Matter On Climate Bill
November 22nd, 2009 7:18 PM
That thumping sound you hear is the Los Angeles Times moving the goal posts in the global warming debate. On November 22, while responding to the growing scandal about alleged proof that global warming is a hoax, the Times brushed it off with a puzzling claim that science should have no bearing on climate legislation. What a difference a few leaked e-mail messages could make: just over a month…
Saturday Funnies: Inhofe Tells Boxer 'We Won, You Lost, Get a Life
November 21st, 2009 11:59 PM
On Thursday, following news that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had delayed a vote on cap and trade legislation until next year, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee James Inhofe (R-Okla.) chose to rub it in at Chairwoman Barbara Boxer's (D-Calif.) expense:The fact that this whole idea on the global warming, I'm glad that's over and gone, done.…