Weekend Captionfest II
"So far some 730 tornadoes have touched down this year, more than double the number for all of last year."—ABC's Bill Weir, GMA 05-10-08, as this graphic was displayed in a segment blaming global warming for increased tornado incidence.
After Mocking 'Scool' Spelling, GMA Makes Two Math Mistakes
Dispatch from the Department of Glass Houses . . . The Good Morning America crew had a bunch of yucks today at the expense of the Sparks, NV streets department employee who spelled "scool" on the asphalt. But within minutes, two ABCers made math mistakes of their own, one of a political sort, the other climate-related.RON CLAIBORNE: In Sparks, Nevada, someone in the streets department could use…
Apple Is Rotten at Being Green; Where's Director Gore, or the Media
It must be nice to be on Old Media's "free pass" list.
For years, Apple Computer has been on that list (disclosure: yours truly is a 23-year Mac user). Apple has been the cool, innovative tech darling, the noble foil of big, bad monopolist Microsoft.
Another free-pass beneficiary is Al Gore, who sits on Apple's Board of Directors.
Wait until you see what ClimateCounts.org thinks of Apple's…
Cindy Crawford Fights Global Warming Malibu Style
Another celebrity has seen Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and found green religion. Supermodel-turned-mommy Cindy Crawford, now a blogger for Vanity Fair's Web site, appeared on ABC's May 7 "Good Morning America" to tell viewers they can save the environment by buying a $20 water bottle. "But my kids go to a school in Malibu and it's super-environmentally conscious," Crawford said. "We do…
Gore: Deadly Cyclone a 'Consequence' of Global Warming
It was bound to happen eventually - someone from the global warming movement tying the recent Myanmar cyclone to the so-called climate change phenomenon. Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR's May 6 "Fresh Air" broadcast did just that. He was interviewed by "Fresh Air" host Terry Gross about the release of his book, "The Assault on Reason," in paperback. "And as we're talking…
MSNBC Finds Penguins at North Pole... But Penguins Don't LIVE at North
**Video added below the fold**
**UPDATE: Penguins Edited Out of Report!**
A 15-year-old British girl named Camilla Hempleman-Adams is being hailed as a "hero" for trekking across the ice floes of the North Pole to become one of the youngest women to explore the frozen world of the penguin... well, at least as far as MSNBC is concerned. In their report on the feat of endurance, MSNBC had a shot…
New Data on Sea Ice Contradicts Media Climate Change Reporting
If the Earth has a fever, as former Vice President Al Gore suggests, it's not showing signs of it. According to Climateaudit.org's Steve McIntyre, global sea ice has actually increased. "On a global basis, world sea ice in April 2008 reached levels that were ‘unprecedented' for the month of April in over 25 years," Steve McIntyre wrote on Climateaudit.org on May 4. "Levels are the third…
Meet the 'Hippy-crites': Green Celebs Who Don't Practice What They Pre
For years, NewsBusters has been telling readers how much better the foreign press are at covering both sides of the global warming debate.On Tuesday, Britain's Daily Mail published a perfect example of this maxim with a delicious piece about "hippy-crites": those pompous, holier-than-thou movie stars that go around the world advocating environmental causes and reducing one's carbon footprint…
Sting's Tree Saving Charity Keeps Most of the Donations
In last week's installment of "Sting's Eco-hypocrisy," we learned that the frontman for the rock band the Police, though supposedly an environmentalist, has a bigger carbon footprint than most third world nations. In Sunday's episode, we found out that Sting's charity, the Rainforest Foundation, gives only 41 percent of the money raised to the programs it supports, and, as a result, "is rated one…
Weather Channel Founder's Letter to Environmentalists Re: Global Warmi
Since calling global warming "the greatest scam in history," the founder of The Weather Channel John Coleman has been an outspoken advocate for climate realism.This weekend, Coleman posted at his KUSI-San Diego blog an "Open Letter to Environmentalists" challenging them to campaign for "environmental goals on the basis of their own merit" while urging alarmists to "[l]et go of the global warming…
Foto Funnies: 'Bring Back Global Warming
Despite all the global warming hysteria emanating from the usual media suspects and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, it's been a cold, harsh, long winter throughout most of America.Apparently, some of the citizens in the small, Idaho panhandle town of Craigmont are so fed up with the cold weather that they placed a request to "Bring Back Global Warming" on the marquee of their local high school.With this…
Astounding TV Commentary: 'End of the Ethanol Dream
In the past couple of weeks, NewsBusters has been noting that as food prices around the world have soared causing an international crisis, typically green press members have been surprisingly reporting a rather pessimistic view of ethanol.Without question, the most comprehensive and daring commentary I've seen on this subject to date comes from a program north of the border called The National.…
