Remember when we told you that global warming causes *warmer* winters in London? We meant global warming causes *colder* winters in London
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Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News Global Warming Coverage: ‘It’s an inspiration for journalism, and it’s a beacon of hope that Fox News gets it’
Excerpt from E&E News – December 15, 2010 (Subscription required )
Article Excerpt: “Marc Morano, a former staffer for Capitol Hill’s most prominent climate skeptic, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), and editor of the skeptic website Climate Depot, went a step further.
‘It’s an inspiration for journalism, and it’s a beacon of hope that Fox News gets it,’ said Morano, saying that by balancing experts who believe that climate change is a danger with others who do not, the network is living up to its ‘Fair and Balanced’ slogan.”
Full E&E article reprinted below:
CLIMATE: Debate trails leaked Fox News memo on global warming coverage (12/15/2010)
By Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter
A leaked year-old memo from Fox News’ Washington bureau chief setting guidelines for reporters handling stories about climate change sparked a skirmish today between factions in the global warming policy war.
The memo from Fox News’ Bill Sammon warns his reporters to “refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without immediately pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question.”
He added, “It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.”
The memo was published this morning by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America. A Fox News representative did not return a call requesting a comment.
Conservatives said there was nothing unusual in Sammon’s policy. “It’s in line with their ideological position, I guess,” said Kenneth Green of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute and an occasional guest on Fox as a commenter on climate issues.
Green said that Fox’s take on climate change is probably biased, but he said CNN and National Public Radio have been guilty of the same thing on the left. “Every outlet has its agenda,” Green said, declaring effectively dead the “the ancient model.”
Marc Morano, a former staffer for Capitol Hill’s most prominent climate skeptic, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), and editor of the skeptic website Climate Depot, went a step further.
“It’s an inspiration for journalism, and it’s a beacon of hope that Fox News gets it,” said Morano, saying that by balancing experts who believe that climate change is a danger with others who do not, the network is living up to its “Fair and Balanced” slogan.
Media Matters Vice President Ari Rabin-Havt disagreed, saying Sammon’s directive offers evidence …
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