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Former IPCC Member Slams UN Scientists' Lack of Geologic Knowledge
With each passing day, more and more current and former members of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are stepping out of the shadows to suggest that this group’s alarmist conclusions concerning global warming are more based in myth than science.Another member of this growing list of skeptics is Tom V. Segalstad who was an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC’s third assessment…
Chastity Pollutes? NY Times Website Hosts Idea That Social Conservatis
On Sunday, New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt reviewed the new book "More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics" by Steven Landsburg, a regular contributor to the liberal site Slate.com. Leonhardt panned the book as too cute and too far afield from the "dismal science" of economics, but the Times book editors gave the Landsburg thesis an excerpt on the Times…
CNN Reporter: 'I Don't Want to Hear About Environmental Causes from Pu
Here's another sign that Al Gore's Live Earth was probably a bust. CNN entertainment correspondent Lola Ogunnaike (pictured at right) gave a great one-liner with regards to the celebrity component of Live Earth: "Frankly, I don't want to hear about environmental causes from the Pussycat Dolls."Co-host John Roberts and Ogunnaike discussed the concert's lackluster ratings in the first hour of…
Is Live Earth’s Fizzle Beginning of the End of Global Warming Alarmi
The reviews are in for Saturday’s international effort to save the planet from global warming, and the news isn’t good for folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not so merry sycophants.From boring acts, to poor attendance, and folks actually leaving early out of sheer frustration, the concerts appear to have failed miserably.Is this a sign that Al Gore is as poor an event planner as…
NBC VP Claims Live Earth Doesn't Promote a 'Political Issue
At the end of his Monday "Media Notes" column -- which mostly focused on the Huffington Post, in which former WashPost reporter/new HuffPost hire Tom Edsall acknowledges its audience is "very liberal" -- Howard Kurtz asked NBC about the perception of imbalance created by their massive promotion of the Live Earth concerts:[UPDATED BELOW with Kurtz's discussion on Sunday's Reliable Sources on
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'Morning Joe' Jokes at Ann Curry's Touchy-Feely Gore Interview
Live Earth's TV ratings might have been dismal, and the extravaganza took heat for the liberal use of profanity by its performers. But at least the concert series served some purpose: providing comedic fodder for today's "Morning Joe." Host Joe Scarborough and sidekick John Ridley had considerable fun at the expense of Ann Curry, a host of NBC's coverage of the event (see related NB item),…
ABC News Targets Guns, Omits Facts
ABC's World News Tonight blasts away at middle American gun culture with a few rounds of shoddy science and emotional manipulation.
A Spoonful of Vulgar Helps the Coffee Go Down
NBC's Today treats viewers to some early morning profanity.
Global Warming Blamed For Low Attendance at Live Earth's Johannesburg
Honestly, folks, I had to read this one five times to believe my eyes, and strongly suggest that you remove all potables, flammables, and sharp objects from your proximity before proceeding any further.Everybody ready?Well, it turns out that one of the Live Earth concerts to draw attention to the planet’s imminent doom at the hands of the left’s most recent bogeyman global warming had very poor…