Networks Do 92 Climate Change Stories; Fail to Mention ‘Lull’ in Warming All 92 Times
Extracts from article by Julia A. Seymour
- 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. "
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"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 even by The New York Times on June 10. The Times wrote, “The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace.” Even though the Times piece wasn't published until June 10, a warming slowdown had been reported by foreign media outlets in November 2012, and by The Economist online in March, Reuters in April and BBC online in May of 2013."
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8 Times the Alarmism
"New
reports, studies or scientists that warned of the threat of climate
change from concern over penguin populations, to predictions of sea
level rise continued to be promoted by the networks in 2013. There were
stories or news briefs warning that flying would become more turbulent
because of climate change, connecting allergies to global warming, and
others worrying about glacial melt and sea level rise.
There
were 25 networks reports that mentioned a new report or analysis or
that cited a scientist who promoted the climate alarmist viewpoint. That
was 8 times as many as the other side; there were only three stories
that cited a report or included such a scientist challenging alarmism.
The networks consulted scientists from NASA and NOAA as well as activists like Michael Oppenheimer from Princeton, who has gotten climate predictions
wrong in the past. “Nightly News” interviewed Kenneth Kunkel from
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center on May 25 who continued the hype,
saying “If we continue to increase atmospheric concentrations of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we will warm the globe and that will
bring certain risks into play or increase the risks of certain types of
extremes.”
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In spite of science, networks continue to link weather to climate
"Weather
events that did a lot of damage and claimed lives, like the recent
Oklahoma tornado and last year’s “Superstorm Sandy” were cited as
incontrovertible proof of climate change. Scientists who argued
otherwise were left out of the broadcasts. Even snowfall, wildfires and
droughts were mentioned in some reports as examples of what one reporter
called “globalweirding.”
On Jan. 8, NBC “Nightly News”
anchor Brian Williams mentioned a new report on the cost of extreme
weather saying “natural disasters caused a total of $160 billion damage
around the world in 2012 ... These new numbers coincide with a new
official look at just how hot our past year was.” Anne Thompson followed
up his introduction by linking the “year of extreme weather” to “nature
and man made climate change.”
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi has vehemently opposed such connections and told Forbes.com columnist Larry Bell,
“The fact is that those alarmist claims [about weather getting more
extreme because of man made climate change] simply aren’t true.”
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