Weather
Tornado Survivors Overwhelmed by Government’s Quick Response, Media
May 11th, 2007 10:02 AM
During the 2005 disaster in New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina, you couldn’t turn on a television set without seeing some washed-out resident complaining about the terrible job the federal government was doing with rescue, relief, and evacuation.By contrast, in the days following the destruction of Greensburg, Kansas, by an F-5 tornado, the only one complaining is the state’s Democrat…
Glenn Beck’s Global Warming Special ‘Exposed: The Climate of Fear
May 10th, 2007 9:37 PM
As NewsBusters reported here and here, CNN’s Headline News last Wednesday broadcast a special on global warming hosted by Glenn Beck. In it, Beck exposed multiple mistakes in soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth," as well as identified many of the fallacies and misnomers surrounding the Kyoto Protocol.For those that missed it, “Exposed: The Climate of Fear” is now up at…
Weather Expert: Sub-tropical Storms Being Named to Fuel Global Warming
May 10th, 2007 3:05 PM
For weather watchers, the name Joe Sobel should be a familiar one, as he has been with AccuWeather for 35 years, and is a regular guest on radio stations as well as MSNBC.With that in mind, Dr. Sobel posted an article at the AccuWeather blog Wednesday highly critical of the naming of sub-tropical storms, most recently Andrea. In his view, this practice – which is only five years old – is…
No Katrina For Clinton: CBS Excuses Feds of Blame on Levee Repairs In
May 10th, 2007 12:12 PM
While the liberal media tries to make over a Kansas tornado to resemble their perfect media bias storm over Hurricane Katrina, the floods in Missouri may be a more analogous comparison. But the CBS Evening News wasn't going to allow local residents to blame the federal government without a rebuttal -- if the president was Bill Clinton. On Wednesday night's newscast, CBS reporter Cynthia Bowers…
German Mag Debunks Climate Change Hysteria, Extols Benefits of Warming
May 9th, 2007 11:28 AM
Here’s something you’re unlikely to see in an American newspaper or magazine: global warming might actually be good for the planet and its inhabitants.This radical idea was advanced Monday by the German magazine Der Spiegel which did something I can’t imagine a U.S. publication having the nerve to do in this highly politicized environment: offer readers a comprehensive, balanced view of the…
Media Ignore Evidence of Global Climate Change 20,000 Years Ago
May 8th, 2007 11:23 PM
It's so easy, the cave men did it? LiveScience.com staff writer, Dave Mosher, wrote an article on Yahoo.com titled "Climate Change, Not Humans, Trounced Neanderthals" about Francisco Jimenez-Espejo, a University of Granada paleoclimatologist who “says a lack of evidence has left climate change weakly supported—until now. 'We put data behind the theory,' he said, filling in a large gap in…
Political Economist Robert Higgs on Peer Reviews and Scientific Consen
May 7th, 2007 5:40 PM
How many times in the past year as global warming has become a headline issue have you heard a liberal media member or Hollywood elite talk about a consensus of peer reviewed scientists?So much so that you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one, correct?As an example, pop singer Sheryl Crow during her recent Stop Global Warming College tour would toss the term "peer-reviewed science" around…
Bush Derangement Syndrome at AP: ‘Iraq War Hampers Kansas [Tornado
May 7th, 2007 9:59 AM
In 2005, Bush Derangement Syndrome -- the as of yet inexplicable malady effecting much of the left whereby anything bad that happens on the planet can be tied to the White House -- peaked with continuous press accusations that Hurricane Katrina was the President’s fault.Almost two years later, and just hours after tornadoes devastated the Midwest, the President is being indirectly blamed for…
Supreme Global Warming Derangement: Having Large Families ‘Is an Eco
May 6th, 2007 9:04 PM
Global warming derangement syndrome has taken a disturbing turn for the worse, as The Sunday Times published an article May 6 stating that parents should only have two children in order to avert climate change. I kid you not.The piece, despicably titled “Having Large Families ‘is an Eco-crime,'” unbelievably began:HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in…
Are Media Hyping Bee Crisis to Divert Attention From Cold-related Crop
May 6th, 2007 7:45 PM
By now I’m sure you’ve all heard about the bee crisis in America. Currently termed “colony collapse disorder,” it is the massive die-off of a bee hive or colony for oftentimes inexplicable reasons.Of late, this malady has resulted in a 25 percent reduction in colony totals here in the U.S., setting off alarmist media reports like the following from the Associated Press (emphasis added throughout…
More Kyoto Fallacies Exposed in Glenn Beck’s ‘Climate of Fear
May 4th, 2007 5:33 PM
As NewsBusters reported Thursday, a goodly number of fallacies about the Kyoto Protocol were identified in Glenn Beck’s “Exposed: The Climate of Fear” special presented on CNN Headline News Wednesday. Not the least of these was that soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore himself stated when he was Vice President that this treaty would not be submitted to Congress for ratification “until there`s meaningful…
Glenn Beck’s ‘Climate of Fear’ Attacks Global Warming Alarmists
May 3rd, 2007 6:03 PM
If you missed it last night, Glenn Beck’s skeptical program about anthropogenic global warming, “Exposed: The Climate of Fear,” aired on CNN Headline News.
In it, Beck skewered many of the misnomers advanced by global warming alarmists, especially soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore (full transcript available here).
Video (3:05): Real (2.28 MB) or Windows (1.90 MB), plus MP3 (2.83 MB).
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