Carbon Sense Coalition: 'Earth Hour' Should be Renamed 'Dark Hour
March 29th, 2008 1:48 PM
As previously reported by NewsBusters, there's an international climate change awareness promotion going on today called Earth Hour, and websearch giant Google is not only participating in it, but advocating its goals. Presenting the other side of this argument is an organization called The Carbon Sense Coalition.It wants "to restore balance and reason to the carbon debate, and to explain and…
Google Blacks Out Homepage During 'Earth Hour' to 'Combat Climate Chan
March 29th, 2008 12:30 PM
Want some more proof of Google's political leanings.Well, consider that the websearch giant is participating in Earth Hour, "a global event created to symbolize that each one of us, working together, can make a positive impact on climate change - no matter who we are or where we live."Here's what Google displayed at its website moments ago (h/t NBer Wilbur747, emphasis added):
ABC's Sam Champion Hypes Global Warming for Eight Minutes
March 28th, 2008 4:39 PM
"Good Morning America's" liberal meteorologist Sam Champion continued his crusade of turning the weather report into an environmental lecture on Friday. Champion, the man who once hosted a segment that warned "billions" could die from global warming, devoted over eight minutes of the program to climate change. Reporting live from Colorado, he promoted the Aspen Institute's conference on the…
Scientist Demands Apology From ABC for Global Warming Hit Piece
March 28th, 2008 11:40 AM
As NewsBusters reported, ABC's "World News" aired a disturbing global warming hit piece on Sunday that disrespectfully attacked an esteemed scientist and emeritus professor, referring to his work as "fraudulent nonsense" that is "going to cost lives, and cause us lost species, and cost major economic damage around the world."The subject of the report, Dr. S. Fred Singer, has been receiving well…
Gore: Global Warming 'Deniers' are Flat Earthers
March 28th, 2008 9:03 AM
Despite mounting evidence contrary to his hysterical proclamations, former Vice President Al Gore, he of the massive carbon footprint and $30,000 utility bills, is still clinging to his discredited theory of global warming.In an interview with Lesley Stahl to air on "60 Minutes" this Sunday, Gore piously declares those who don't buy his climate change theories are akin to crackpots who believe…
Networks Hype Rising Sea Levels in One-Sided Global Warming Reports
March 27th, 2008 3:55 PM
This time, the "CBS Evening News" traveled all the way across the pond to pushing the alarmists' global warming agenda. The March 27 "Evening News" went to the coastlines of England to show melting ice caps causing people to lose their homes. "Much of the effects of climate change have been couched in terms of if or when its effects will be felt," CBS correspondent Mark Phillips said. "Well…
'Today' Food Editor Claims Global Warming Making Napa Valley Wines Pas
March 27th, 2008 3:25 PM
Proving that no segment, be it even one on food trends, is safe from liberal bias, NBC's "Today" show food editor claimed, in a report on hot new food trends, that global warming was causing Napa Valley wines to become passe. On Thursday's "Today" show co-anchors Ann Curry and Hoda Kotb sipped wine, while Lempert claimed that North Carolina wines were going to be all the rage because Napa Valley…
CBS’s Harry Smith Is Al Gore Jr
March 26th, 2008 6:26 PM
At the beginning of the 8:30AM half hour of the CBS "Early Show," weatherman Dave Price did a brief story highlighting a melting ice shelf in Antarctica as an example of climate change and co-host Harry Smith used the opportunity to show off his global warming knowledge: "And they also talk about because as this disappears, this reflects light, alright? That's another huge issue because that ice…
YouTube Pulls Anti-Gore Ad For Supposed Copyright Infringement
March 25th, 2008 1:08 PM
YouTube watchers have often marvelled at the video website's floating enforcement of copyright laws.Another such incident guaranteed to cause a lot of conservative heads to be scratched is this weekend's decision by YouTube to yank an advertisement created by the Competitive Enterprise Institute -- as reported by NewsBusters March 12 -- harshly critical of Nobel Laureate Al Gore's hypocritical…
ABC's Global Warming Hit Piece "Welcome to 'The Denial Machine
March 23rd, 2008 10:21 PM
*****Critical update: Dr. Singer responds at end of post.Climate alarmism reached a new low Sunday as ABC's "World News" featured a hit piece on Dr. S. Fred Singer, the esteemed Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia.In a segment disgracefully entitled "Welcome to 'The Denial Machine,'" anchor Dan Harris disparaged Singer at every turn.With a picture of Singer…
Global Warming Update: Ann Arbor Has Snowiest Year on Record
March 23rd, 2008 10:11 AM
This certainly hasn't been the winter climate alarmists wanted to prove that global warming is destined to destroy the planet if we don't immediately cease and desist emitting that awful carbon dioxide into the air. After all, not only has the cooling trend continued, but despite warnings that America was going to have so little snow that ski resorts across the fruited plain would all go bankrupt…
Weekend Captionfest II
March 23rd, 2008 10:06 AM
Al Gore and Thierry Lombard, Senior Partner LODH, at press conference in Switzerland on March 11, 2008 to announce that LODH and Generation Investment Management have decided to join forces to promote sustainable investment. Photo Reuters/Denis Balibouse (Switzerland)