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Media Quotes about Global Warming |
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"There is an even
greater threat that scientists can only speculate about. As global
temperatures rise, they may cause the massive West Antarctic ice
sheet to slip more rapidly. Then we'll be facing a sea-level rise
not of one to three feet in a century, but of 10 or 20 feet in a
much shorter time. The Supreme Court would be flooded. You could tie
your boat to the Washington Monument. Storm surges would make the
Capitol unusable. For Today, Paul Ehrlich in Washington, DC, on the future
shoreline of Chesapeake Bay."
-- Paul Ehrlich acting as a news correspondent for NBC in May 1989
“Do people here
know that very likely in the next – well several decades – all of
this is going to be underwater?”
-- CBS anchor Harry Smith, February
1, 2007
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The
‘Inconvenient Truth’ About Media Coverage of Climate
Change |
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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:
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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.”
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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.”
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Media pointed to glacial changes as a
warning of both global warming and cooling in the past 100 years.
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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.
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BMI Research About Climate Change |
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Fire and Ice: Journalists have warned
of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we
face an ice age or warming
In the
past 100 years the media have warned of four separate coming climate
cataclysms. BMI’s detailed study concluded that in the 1970s the
media was convinced global cooling was going to threaten the food
supply, glaciers are used as examples of both cooling and warming,
and mankind got blamed for heating the planet with CO2 – in 1938.
Read the
full report.
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Summer Rerun: Global Warming Movie
Makes the Media Hot for Al Gore All Over Again
During the summer of 2006, Al Gore and his
“Inconvenient Truth” appeared more than once a day in network news
stories from “The View” to “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” Broadcasts
continually used the phrase “the debate is over” and reporters
wistfully discussed a 2008 Gore campaign.
Read the
full report.
Global Warming Censored: How
the Networks Silence the Debate on Climate Change
Consistently
viewers are being sent only one message from ABC,
CBS and NBC: global warming is an environmental
catastrophe and it’s mankind’s fault. Skepticism is
all but shut out of reports through several tactics
– omission, name-calling, the hype of frightening
images like polar bears scavenging for food near
towns and a barrage of terrifying predictions.
Read the full report. |
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