Daily Caller: ‘Global warming skeptic Morano buries Sierra Club director under avalanche of facts’ in CNN Debate
Morano also got into it with climate activist Felipe Cousteau, who tried to catalog the human toll of carbon. “We need to get out of this bickering, and start dealing with the very human cost” of climate change, he said.
“When you have Felipe Cousteau talk about the children — children benefit from carbon-based energy,” Morano replied. “As you look around the world, 1.2 billion people don’t have running water, electricity, living in dire poverty. They need coal plants and natural gas and oil. That is the most pro-child thing you can do.
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Analysis: Don’t Expect The Facts From Sierra Club’s Michael Brune
…Warmist Media Matters laments CNN climate debate: ‘Morano’s extensive media presence is alarming’ – ‘Morano commandeered the majority of the segment’ – Declares ‘The Worst Climate Change Misinformer In America Is On CNN’
…Warmist Media Matters Misquotes Morano in Attempted Hit Piece: Claims Morano said ‘scientific journals” say global warming is not ‘real’ – Reality Check: Morano specifically was referring to the claims of man-made ‘global weirding’ of extreme weather as not being ‘real’
Climate Depot Rebuttal: A viewing of the segment or reading the transcript clearly reveals both Morano and the CNN host Don Lemon were specficially referring to the previously mentioned “global weirding” or a “new normal” in extreme weather.
LEMON: OK, MARC –
MORANO: They had their own 1970s version of global weirding.
LEMON: — we get your point. You don’t think it’s real.
(LAUGHTER)
LEMON: Michael –
MORANO: Scientific journals don’t think it’s real.
And then later in segment:
LEMON: OK.
MORANO: Extreme weather is consistent with the history of the earth. There is no trend to point to climate change. It’s not there.
Now, that’s separate from the larger question of, is climate change happening. That’s a different question. But, of course, climate change is governed by hundreds of factors
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Flashback 1820: Arctic climate rapidly warming. Ice disappearing.
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…Watch Live at 10am: Congressional Global Warming Hearing: Science Committee – A Factual Look at the Relationship Between Climate and Weather
…Watch Video Now: CNN Hosts Rare Live Contentious Global Warming Debate – Marc Morano vs. Sierra Club’s Michael Brune & Philippe Cousteau Jr. – Full Transcript – Morano: ‘So record cold is now evidence of man-made global warming?
Watch Both Segments of CNN Debate here:
Transcript Below:
Update: Reactions to CNN Debate:
Analysis: Don’t Expect The Facts From Sierra Club’s Michael Brune
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THE 11TH HOUR – TRANSCRIPT – With Supporting Links Added Throughout Morano’s Section
East Coast Continually Pounded by Storms; Strange Things Happening in the Animal Kingdom; What’s Causing the Extreme Weather; A Link Between Climate Change and Health?
Aired December 10, 2013 – 23:00 ET on CNN
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: You are looking live at New York City. It’s not even winter yet, but today is a record for snowfall for the day dating back to 1932. And that’s nothing. 90 percent of the country will have below normal temperatures by morning. Anybody else out there think this is extreme weather?
It’s 11:00 in the east, everyone. Do you know where your news is? I’m Don Lemon. This is THE 11TH HOUR, the last word on today and what you’ll be talking about tomorrow.
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CNN ’11th Hour host DON LEMON: I want you to stay right there because I want you to join our debate on what’s causing this extreme weather and how much we should worry.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
LEMON: Welcome back. I’m Don Lemon. This is THE 11TH HOUR.
Hurricanes, tornadoes, extreme weather, one of the hottest debates in the country right now. Going head-to-head tonight, Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club; Marc Morano, editor-in-chief at climatedepot.com; and back with us is Philippe Cousteau, president of …