The news media have a definitive agenda when it comes to climate change. With few exceptions, reports assume man is primarily responsible for global warming, ignore or undermine critics, and promote government intervention to save the planet from this threat.

     In fact, the media have a long history of promoting climate-related cataclysmic scenarios. As the Business & Media Institute detailed in the Special Report Fire & Ice, there have been four different warnings of climate doom heralded by the media in the past century: cooling, warming, cooling, warming.

     Just as the media unconditionally accept the “consensus” position right now – that the earth is warming, it is mankind’s fault and something must be done to stop it – journalists reacted in the same manner in the 1970s regarding global cooling.

     Here are just a few “Inconvenient Truths” about global warming reporting:

• Stories about the February 2006 IPCC report left out the significant downward revision of sea level rise predictions. Instead, ABC declared rising water “may be the scariest part of all.”

• Lou Dobbs, anchor of CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” admitted to being “tired of the debate” and said that he chose to silence it on his program by assuming “mankind has a significant role in global warming.”

• Media pointed to glacial changes as a warning of both global warming and cooling in the past 100 years.

• In October 2006, media reports called for increased government spending to the tune of $180 billion per year, or $400 per man, woman and child in the U.S. Previously, the media also promoted joining the Kyoto Protocol, which could have costs U.S. taxpayers up to $440 billion per year.