Could the media be biased? Networks Do 92 Climate Change Stories; Fail to Mention ‘Lull’ in Warming All 92 Times

Could the media be biased? Networks Do 92 Climate Change Stories; Fail to Mention ‘Lull’ in Warming All 92 Times

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Networks Do 92 Climate Change Stories; Fail to Mention ‘Lull’ in Warming All 92 Times

ABC, CBS and NBC ignore ‘mystery’ warming plateau in favor of alarmism about sea levels, allergies, weather.

By
JULIA A. SEYMOUR

From the Media Research Center

WSJ.COM 7/11/13: Recent years’ slowdown in global warming completely ignored by networks 92 climate change stories in 2013.

Stories citing experts or the latest studies promoting alarmism get covered more than 8 times as often as critical experts and studies.

Although many scientists say no, ABC, CBS and NBC continue to link weather events like tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves and more to climate change nearly one-fourth of the time.

President Barack Obama’s new climate change initiative will purportedly share “a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change and lead global efforts to fight it.” Although he intends to demand action, most Americans do not see climate change as a “major threat,” according to Pew Research.

The Washington Post reported Obama will include “a plan to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from existing power plants.” That’s an agenda item the media will love. It was just a month ago when CBS “This Morning” interviewed Time magazine senior writer Jeffrey Kluger on May 11 who said “we have to curb the use of fossil fuels.”

No doubt the broadcast networks will cheer the president’s efforts, since they’ve spent years warning of the threat of climate change, even in the face of science that challenges their view. This year they’ve worried about many things including “raging infernos, surging seas, howling winds,” reported alarmist claims that weren’t accurate and connected weather to climate when scientists disagree. The networks have also completely ignored the “lull” in warming in recent years, in all 92 stories about climate change they reported in 2013.

One ABC report was typical, warning: “Many cities had record warmth, including Washington, D.C. where a lack of action on manmade climate change is likely to mean 2012 is just a glimpse into an unpleasant future, according to many scientists.”

Just since Jan. 1, 2013, ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news programs have aired 92 stories about “climate change” or “global warming.” Not a single one of those stories mentioned the “warming plateau” reported …

We’re saved! In an insane attempt to prevent CO2-induced bad weather, beach bonfires in southern California may be banned

We’re saved! In an insane attempt to prevent CO2-induced bad weather, beach bonfires in southern California may be banned

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/we-saved-in-insane-attempt-to-prevent.html

California regulators look to curb beach bonfires, citing climate change | Fox NewsA tradition dating back to the 1940s — bonfire pits on the beaches of southern California — is being targeted by state officials who say the popular pastime is no longer acceptable because of global warming and negative health consequences. “One fire pit burning one night, a few hours, a couple bundles of wood, emits as much as one average diesel truck on the road today driving over 500 miles,” said Dr. Philip Fine, of the Southern California Air Quality Management District (AQMD). AQMD staff recommended banning open fires at the beach and removing the hundreds of concrete fire pits that stretch from San Diego to Los Angeles. The proposal drew fire from beachgoers, who often show up early in the morning to reserve a spot. Flashback: Why do they hate my grandchildren?: Warmists take unnecessary fossil-fueled trips to Colorado, then enjoy a planet-killing bonfire!…

State of the carbon market in 2013 is so sick the World Bank cancelled the report

State of the carbon market in 2013 is so sick the World Bank cancelled the report

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/07/state-of-the-carbon-market-in-2013-is-so-sick-the-world-bank-cancelled-the-report/

State of the Carbon Market: Started in 2003, but wiped out in 2013 Each year  for nearly a decade The World Bank has published “The State and Trends of the Carbon Market” in May or June with great fan-fare and press releases. It’s the definitive guide telling the world how many dollars are turning over in the global markets (which really means “the EU market plus a few other bits”). I’ve been quoting their figures for years — The 2012 report told us that $176 billion dollars turned over in 2011. So what was the number for the 2012 year? Whatever it is, it’s so bad the World Bank cancelled the report. Figure what the cancellation of the report tells us about the The World Bank. Was it publishing these figures for the last nine years because they were important for investors and policy-makers? I guess not, or they would still be publishing them. By dropping it at the first major downturn, we know the reason for the report was pure PR, something for whipping up momentum about the market and getting headlines in newspapers. The numbers in 2013 became a PR disadvantage — the World Bank did […]Rating: 10.0/10 (2 votes cast)…

‘Mayor Bloomberg Pledges $20 Billion NYC Doesn’t Have To Address Global Warming Which Isn’t Happening’

Mayor Bloomberg Pledges $20 Billion NYC Doesn’t Have To Address Global Warming Which Isn’t Happening

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Build a Boat! It’s Gonna Start Flooding! (sometime soon). According to Mommy Mayor Bloomberg NYC is about to be flooded because of global warming, so he’s announced a $20 billion dollar plan to prevent the big apple from becoming the worlds largest bobbing for apples game.  Its a reasonable plan with only two problems, the City doesn’t have that kind of money and the sea level isn’t rising, in fact temperatures haven’t risen in 15+ years.

Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a $20 billion plan to defend New York City from what he claim will be the ravages of global warming in the coming decades. His  plan will cost the average New York City household nearly $3,000.

Bloomberg’s 430-page plan, Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency, includes approximately 250 recommendations ranging from new floodwalls and storm barriers to upgrades in the city’s power and telecommunications infrastructure. The plan also calls for $1.2 billion in loans and grants to help owners make buildings more resilient to floods and proposes changes in the city’s building code.

New York has always had to deal with the threat of flooding. Hurricanes and severe tropical storms have struck the area periodically since the founding of New Amsterdam (today’s New York) in 1624.Bloomberg announced the plan by claiming New Yorkers could either “do nothing and expose ourselves to an increasing frequency of Sandy-like storms” or “make the investments necessary to build a stronger, more resilient New York.”
Bloomberg is correct about the frequency of bad hurricanes, there was Hurricane Donna in 1960 (a category 2), Hurricane Gloria in 1985, Irene in 2011 and Sandy in 2012.  See–a-15-year-gap followed by a 26-year gap and a 1-year gap (there were other storms but these were the bad ones).  Come on Mayor! Four bad hurricanes in 52 years and you are freaking out!

“I have trouble seeing exactly how spending $20 billion—that’s billion with a ‘b’—will prevent bad weather or climate,” said climate scientist Willie Soon. “In general, to be more prepared is a good thing. But preparing, as New York City is apparently doing, using the faulty climate modeling scenarios offered by the UN IPCC [United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] is a serious distortion of basic science.”
As far as sea levels—that’s also nonsense. The President forgot  ever since the last ice-age …

Remember when CO2 was going to cause coffee to go extinct? Now global output has exceeded demand for a fourth year, prices are getting “crushed”, and in Brazil “there isn’t enough space to store it all”

Remember when CO2 was going to cause coffee to go extinct? Now global output has exceeded demand for a fourth year, prices are getting “crushed”, and in Brazil “there isn’t enough space to store it all”

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/remember-when-co2-was-going-to-cause.html

Coffee Crushed as Slumping Real Spurs Brazil Sales – BloombergWith global output exceeding demand for a fourth year, accelerating sales will drive prices down 11 percent to $1.08 a pound by Dec. 31, according to the median of 18 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.“The lower real will most certainly help exports, making Brazil a much more aggressive seller,” said Rasmus Wolthers, a trader at Wolthers & Associates, a brokerage in Santos, Brazil. “There’s a lot of coffee in Brazil, and there isn’t enough space to store it all, so producers will have to sell. I expect to see much more aggressive sales offers.”…Arabica, the most-consumed coffee, tumbled 61 percent on ICE Futures U.S. in New York since reaching a 14-year high in May 2011

2012:  Coffee Extinction In The Wild, Spurred By Climate Change, Could Occur By 2080, Study SaysTo generate their predictions, the researchers used a computer…

Thomson Reuters Foundation Climate editor suggests that CO2 causes hundreds of billions of dollars in storm damage per year; to prevent bad weather “rich families may need to begin acting a little more like Nigerians”

Thomson Reuters Foundation Climate editor suggests that CO2 causes hundreds of billions of dollars in storm damage per year; to prevent bad weather “rich families may need to begin acting a little more like Nigerians”

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/thomson-reuters-foundation-climate.html

TWO-MINUTE TALKING POINT – What does population growth mean for climate change? by Laurie Goering – YouTubePublished on Jul 11, 2013″You might think that cutting population growth is most important in places like Africa, where birthrates are higher than anywhere else in the world. …But in fact, it’s curbing population in rich, developed countries that has the biggest influence on climate change.”– Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation Climate editor/ Head of Climate Programme…In the things we do each day, each of us are changing the world’s climate. We cook meals, travel, build homes, heat them, turn on the lights when the sun goes down….The cheapest and most effective way to curb climate change, most experts agree, is to get contraceptive services to the more than 220 million women around the world who want them but can’t currently access them. Experts say the cost of doing that would be about $4 billion — a tiny fraction of the cost of damage from climate-linked storms, which now runs into hundreds of billions of dollars around the world each year….An average American produces about 17 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. The average Nigerian produces a little over half a tonne. That means that each additional child born in America will produce 28 times as many climate-changing emissions each year as a child born in Nigeria….When it comes to curbing climate change, rich families may need to begin acting a little more like Nigerians — not by having bigger families but by reducing the resources they use and the emissions they produce.

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Pretty tiny caucus of Republican carbon dioxide hoax tax supporters in the U.S.: A few guys outside of Congress and a staffer who doesn’t even dare to attach his actual name to the idea

Pretty tiny caucus of Republican carbon dioxide hoax tax supporters in the U.S.: A few guys outside of Congress and a staffer who doesn’t even dare to attach his actual name to the idea

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/pretty-tiny-caucus-of-republican-carbon.html

RealClearScience – How the GOP Could Win the Climate Debate…it must be revenue neutral….Reducing income taxes can spur growth and investment. [If Americans previously paid $X annually in income tax and you switched to making them pay $X annually in carbon dioxide hoax tax, how does that spur growth and investment?]…Republicans in Congress could quickly reclaim this debate, but I recognize this won’t happen until a critical mass of conservatives in the general public buy in. That’s why conservatives outside of Congress — the ones “with nothing to lose” like Bob Inglis, George Shultz, Art Laffer and Kevin Hassett — are paving the way for Republicans to take the small government, pro-growth conservative stand on climate change. …Eric Bradenson, writing under a pen name to protect his boss and himself, is a conservative staffer on Capitol Hill working for a House Republican.

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Macquarie Uni responds to Murry Salby. What they don’t say, speaks volumes.

Macquarie Uni responds to Murry Salby. What they don’t say, speaks volumes.

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/07/macquarie-uni-responds-to-murry-salby-what-they-dont-say-speaks-volumes/

In reply to my email request, a spokesperson from Macquarie replied today. I thanked them for their promptness. The entire response to Murry Salby’s 20-point-list of serious accusations is reproduced in full (my thoughts below): 10 July 2013 STATEMENT REGARDING THE TERMINATION OF PROFESSOR MURRY SALBY Prof Murry Salby Macquarie University does not normally comment on the circumstances under which employees leave the University. However, we feel in this instance it is necessary to do so in order to correct misinformation. The decision to terminate Professor Murry Salby’s employment with Macquarie University had nothing to do with his views on climate change nor any other views. The University supports academic freedom of speech and freedom to pursue research interests. Professor Salby’s employment was terminated firstly, because he did not fulfil his academic obligations, including the obligation to teach. After repeated directions to teach, this matter culminated in his refusal to undertake his teaching duties and he failed to arrive at a class he had been scheduled to take. The University took this matter very seriously as the education and welfare of students is a primary concern. The second reason for his […]Rating: 9.3/10 (3 votes cast)…

National Academy of Sciences to investigate warmist Kerry Emanuel for failing to disclose insurance industry ties in recent study

National Academy of Sciences to investigate warmist Kerry Emanuel for failing to disclose insurance industry ties in recent study

http://junkscience.com/2013/07/10/national-academy-of-sciences-to-investigate-warmist-kerry-emanuel-for-failing-to-disclose-insurance-industry-ties-in-recent-study

Is MIT warmist Kerry Emanuel hiding his conflict of interest again? Last year, JunkScience.com forced Emanuel to disclose his insurance industry ties in Nature publications. Apparently he didn’t think similar disclosures were warranted in his global warming-hurricane study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Below is the letter JunkScience.com […]…