Mainstream media refuses to cover climate change conference
When the usual suspects, UN Climate change panel, Philip Jones, Michael Mann, etc. have a conference, the main stream media flocks in groves to the meeting and without any thought or fact checking regurgitate the “debate is over” mantra.
When a conference is held to actually discuss and debate climate change and what impact man is having, the main stream media is nowhere to be seen.
Rick Tzupeck of Big Journalism describes the Heartland conference and the utter lack of coverage by the main stream media:
You would think that a conference that features some of the world’s leading scientists talking about a hot-button issue like global warming would attract a bit of old media attention. The Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, currently being held in Chicago, features distinguished scientists like the University of Colorado’s Dr. William Gray, Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon, MIT atmospheric physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen, former astronaut and United States Senator Dr. Harrison Schmitt and the guy who broke the hockey stick, Steve McIntyre. But, while there are a number of bloggers here, while Pajamas Media is here, while the European press is here – including the BBC – and while I’m here, the MSM is nowhere to be found.
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It’s refreshing to write about climate change and note a lack of consensus. That’s science the way it’s supposed to be: researchers attacking a problem from different angles, finding different answers and learning from each other’s work. It’s one-hundred eighty degrees the opposite of the cheerleading competitions that the IPCC conferences, like the most recent one in Copenhagen, have become.
So why does the old media ignore the rich, diverse opinions and research that this conference offers? Not only is there no one here from the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN, the Chicago Tribune didn’t even send a reporter (one of their columnists did show up however), even though the venue is within walking distance of Tribune Tower. Remarkable. Is the MSM drinking its own stale Kool-Aid, convinced that the science really is “settled” and that oil money just has to be behind any contrarian opinion? Or are they just so embarrassed now that the wheels are coming off of the global warming bus that they just can’t face the public? Probably a little of both.
Is anyone that watches the main stream media coverage of climate change surprised by this? Like with recent political elections, the mainstream media has transitioned from disinterested observer that reports the facts to political activist. Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but it seems that unlike the polar bear, reporters with integrity are becoming an endangered species.
There are few people, even among devout global warming skeptics, that state unequivocally that man is not at least part of the problem of global warming. However, contrary to what Al Gore may have told you, the debate isn’t over and those scientists that are putting politics aside are simply asking for an honest debate where science and fact are the basis for that debate, rather than politics and winning government grants being the primary motivation.
The MSM never reports on these confrences because they think they are in the back pockets of big oil. And big oil is bad. They also realize that over the last number of years they bet on the wrong horse and now they have egg on their face. I also believe that there is a fear among the MSM that big government, which is heavily on the left, will find a way to make life difficult for them in some way if they provide crediblity to the right on this one. I think the msm is running scared.
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Why would anyone want to cover a conference presented by scientifically illiterate wingnuts?
Hey! Why don’t the MSM do a story on Crazy Jim who lives in a dumpster? Let’s get his views on climate change as well!
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Climate change
Dear Editor, May 18/10
Recent research by Henrik Svensmark and his group at the Danish National
Space Center points to the real cause of the recent warming trend. In a
series of experiments on the formation of clouds, these scientists have
shown that fluctuations in the Sun’s output cause the observed changes in the
Earth’s temperature.
In the past, scientists believed the fluctuations in the Sun’s output were
too small to cause the observed amount of temperature change, hence the need
to look for other causes like carbon dioxide. However, these new
experiments show that fluctuations in the Sun’s output are in fact large
enough, so there is no longer a need to resort to carbon dioxide as the
cause of the recent warming trend.
The discovery of the real cause of the recent increase in the Earth’s
temperature is indeed a convenient truth. It means humans are not to blame
for the increase. It also means there is absolutely nothing we can, much
less do, to correct the situation.
Thomas Laprade
Thunder Bay, Ont.
Canada
Ph. 807 3457258
http://beforeitsnews.com/news/44/692/Astonishing_Science:_Sun_May_Cause_Global_Warming.html
Notice the great coverage they got in the National Spot? The Post printed a Fred Singer fairy tale and an Open Letter to UN Secretary Bam without so much as suggesting this gang of clowns were connected to right wing think tanks and the fossil fuel industry. RealClimate.org has a great review of many of the signatories.
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Why don’t we use Obama’s theory of applying Einsteins theory of space and time to the Constitution, to solving the problem of global warming. I think most people miss the pure genius in the study “The Curvature of Constitutional Space: What Lawyers Can Learn From Modern Physics,” authored by noted legal scholar Laurence Tribe.from Harvard and assisted by Obama.
Hey it’s worth a shot !
Every time it’s 122 degrees in Dallas we left-wing science-phobes trot out something like, “Woo-hoo! Yep, that global warming sure is heatin’ things up!”
But when it freezes in Vegas we never say that “actually the Earth is cooling.”
In the meantime, we’ll continue our evil plot to control the world by mandating a different type of light bulb.
And then once everyone has adopted our new evil lightbuld we’ll ban them because they use deadly heavy metals.
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Globally Incomprehensible…
Do folks figuratively are in line with it……