Al Gore Warns of Global Warming Doom Seconds Before CNN Reports ‘Monster’ Winter Storm

By Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters

Al Gore warned CNN viewers Wednesday about imminent planetary doom at the hands of his favorite bogeyman global warming just seconds before Kiran Chetry reported the “monster storm paralyzing travel in more than a dozen states” with “winter still two weeks away.”

On “American Morning” to discuss issues surrounding the United Nations climate change conference taking place in Copenhagen, the former Vice President said, “All the mountain glaciers all over the world are melting, many of them at a greatly accelerated rate, threatening drinking water supplies.”

Shortly after this ominous forecast, Chetry told viewers, “Winter still two weeks away, but snow plows are out from the plains to the Northeast. A monster storm paralyzing travel in more than a dozen states.”

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ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox

via: newsbusters.org

The Obama administration has another reason to hate Fox: it appears to be the only national television news outlet in America interested in the growing ClimateGate scandal.

Despite last Friday morning’s bombshell that hacked e-mail messages from a British university suggested a conspiracy by some of the world’s leading global warming alarmists — many with direct ties to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — to manipulate temperature data, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC through Monday evening have completely ignored the subject.

LexisNexis searches indicate that NPR appears to also be part of this news boycott.

By contrast, here are some of the stories news organizations apparently favored by the Obama adminstration have covered since ClimateGate broke:

• ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” Friday did a very lengthy piece about Oprah Winfrey ending her syndicated daytime talk show
• ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” Monday did a lengthy piece on new revelations involving the marital affair of Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.)
• CBS “Evening News” Saturday reported a ten-year-old pianist playing at Carnegie Hall
• CBS “Evening News” Sunday did lengthy pieces on the website FreeCreditReport.com not being free and the movie “New Moon”
• CBS “Evening News” Monday did lengthy pieces about defective drywall and a man who makes money wearing t-shirts
• NBC “Nightly News” Friday reported on Switzerland’s supercollider being turned back on
• NBC “Nightly News” Saturday did a somewhat lengthy report on food carts
• NBC “Nightly News” Sunday reported the release of British singer Susan Boyle’s CD, and then followed it up with another report Monday on her promoting it.

It’s not that these aren’t valid news stories, but should they ALL be of greater importance than a scandal involving scientists from around the world including some employed by NASA and American colleges?

Also consider that the news divisions of ABC, CBS, and NBC broadcast many hours during the day besides their evening programs, and LexisNexis identified no ClimateGate reports in those either (through Monday).

As for CNN, it has been broadcasting for almost 100 straight hours since this story broke, and it appears the so-called “Most Respected Name In News” has yet to devote one second to this scandal.

By contrast, Fox News did at least four reports on this subject on Monday alone. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has also done multiple stories on this matter, as has BBC.com.

Yet, despite the seriousness of this issue, as well as a prominent Senator calling for hearings to investigate it, America’s television news organizations appear to be actively boycotting this growing controversy.

Is this a replay of how they ignored September’s ACORN scandal for many days until they were basically forced to cover what had gone viral across the Internet, talk radio, and Fox News?

What is it going to take for these so-called news outlets to begin sharing this subject with their viewers?

On a humorous related note, ABC might not be interested in ClimateGate, but it still is devoted to spreading climate fear.

On Tuesday, ABCNews.com’s top story was, “Worse Than the Worst: Climate Report Says Even Most Dire Predictions Too Tame“

There’s even less time for humanity to try to curb global warming than recently thought, according to a new in-depth scientific assessment by 26 scientists from eight countries.

Sea level rise, ocean acidification and the rapid melting of massive ice sheets are among the significantly increased effects of human-induced global warming assessed in the survey, which also examines the emissions of heat-trapping gases that are causing the climate change.

“Many indicators are currently tracking near or above the worst-case projections” made three years ago by the world’s scientists, the new Copenhagen Diagnosis said.

Nor has manmade global warming slowed or paused, as some headlines have recently suggested, according to the report, which you can see here.

Well, at least ABC is consistent.

Readers are advised that of the cable news networks, only CNN produces transcriptions of all its broadcasts. With this in mind, it is possible that MSNBC has reported on ClimateGate during programs not transcribed. It is also possible that Fox News has reported on ClimateGate more frequently than addressed.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.

George Will Tells Dirty Little Secrets of Universal Healthcare

As President Obama tours the country advancing his universal healthcare initiative, there are some dirty little secrets that he and his minions in the media don’t want Americans to know.

On Sunday, George Will during the panel discussion on ABC’s “This Week,” exposed some inconvenient truths about this controverial subject that would likely change much of the public’s view if they were regularly made aware of them.

After host George Stephanopoulos opened the roundtable segment, Will marvelously cut to the chase (video available here):

As President Obama tours the country advancing his universal healthcare initiative, there are some dirty little secrets that he and his minions in the media don’t want Americans to know.

On Sunday, George Will during the panel discussion on ABC’s “This Week,” exposed some inconvenient truths about this controverial subject that would likely change much of the public’s view if they were regularly made aware of them.

After host George Stephanopoulos opened the roundtable segment, Will marvelously cut to the chase (video available here):

GEORGE WILL, ABC NEWS ANALYST: [T] this is now a single issue argument about whether or not we’re on a slippery slope to a single-payer system. That is, it’s about the so-called public option. And the president has said, “If you are starting from scratch” — he said this very recently — he would go to a single payer. That is, government as the single provider of health care.

Now, there are four arguments for the public option. One is, in the president’s words, it will keep them honest. To try to preserve the government as a lagoon of honesty, you can argue, refuted by anybody who reads any budget of any administration.

Bullseye, for all one need do is look at the totally absurd economic assumptions in Obama’s 2010 budget, and one would have to agree with Will. But I digress:

WILL: Second, he says, it will play by the same rules as the private insurers, and therefore, won’t drive them out of business. If you play by the same rules, as you said to the secretary, what’s the point?

Exactly. If the rules of the private insurers are sound enough to be adopted by government, why change things?

WILL: Third, it’s necessary to give what Secretary Sebelius said a choice to the consumers. There are 1,300 entities offering healthcare plans in this country. Another one isn’t going to change that.

Precisely. Taking this a step further, many of these 1,300 entities will likely cease to exist if government gets involved. As such, Americans will have far fewer options.

WILL: Finally, there’s the argument that the American people are not smart enough to handle something as complicated as healthcare and have a competitive market. They’ve done rather well in computers.

Yes, but a common liberal meme is that people aren’t smart enough to figure things out, and that’s why government needs do it for them.

Fortunately, Will wasn’t done, for he later dispelled another media myth about this issue:

WILL: Donna [Brazile], you talk about the 46, 47 million uninsured. Fourteen million of them are already eligible for other government programs and haven’t signed up. Ten million are in households with household incomes of $75,000 a year and could afford it if they wanted to.

Furthermore, an enormous number in that 47 million are not American citizens. Sixty percent of the uninsured in San Francisco are not citizens.

Bingo. So, this 47 million uninsured number the media always throw around is totally disingenuous and largely irrelevant.

That said, it was awfully nice hearing somebody say it this morning.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.

NewsBusted 4/10/09

Most Democrats Wanted Bush to Fail in 2006 Poll, Will Media Care?

CRITICAL UPDATE at end of post: former Clinton pollster wrote in depth about this in September 2006!

If it’s unpatriotic and supposedly treasonous for conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to want Barack Obama’s policies to fail in the middle of a serious recession, is it similarly so for Democrats who wished President Bush wouldn’t succeed while the nation was at war?

In August 2006, a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll asked the following of 900 registered voters:

Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to succeed or not?

Here are the stunning results (h/t Patterico via NB reader Thomas Stewart):

Yes, that says 51 percent of Democrats and 34 percent of Independents didn’t want President Bush to succeed…even though our nation was at war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I’m sure media outlets will be reporting this revelation real soon, and expressing their apologies to Mr. Limbaugh.

*****Update: Former Clinton pollster Craig Charney wrote about this deplorable poll on September 24, 2006 (h/t Betsy Newmark via Sister Toldjah via Garden State Pundit via Gateway Pundit) –

via: Newsbusters

‘Climate Scientist’ Ratchets Up Global Warming Alarmism in Face of Record Cold Weather

You’re a global warming alarmist yet we’re experiencing the coldest winter in decades. What to do? What to do? Well, if you are “climate scientist” Chris Field, you go even further out on the limb and declare that the climate is warming up even faster than predicted despite evidence to the contrary right outside our doors. Here is the Reuters report about Chris Field sounding the global warming alarm bells:

The climate is heating up far faster than scientists had predicted, spurred by sharp increases in greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries like China and India, a top climate scientist said on Saturday.

“The consequence of that is we are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we’ve considered seriously,” Chris Field, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.

Field said “the actual trajectory of climate change is more serious” than any of the climate predictions in the IPCC’s fourth assessment report called “Climate Change 2007.”

He said recent climate studies suggested the continued warming of the planet from greenhouse gas emissions could touch off large, destructive wildfires in tropical rain forests and melt permafrost in the Arctic tundra, releasing billions of tons of greenhouse gasses that could raise global temperatures even more.

“There is a real risk that human-caused climate change will accelerate the release of carbon dioxide from forest and tundra ecosystems, which have been storing a lot of carbon for thousands of years,” Field, of Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science, said in a statement.

He pointed to recent studies showing the fourth assessment report underestimated the potential severity of global warming over the next 100 years.

“We now have data showing that from 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions increased far more rapidly than we expected, primarily because developing countries, like China and India, saw a huge surge in electric power generation, almost all of it based on coal,” Field said.

He said that trend was likely to continue if more countries turned to coal and other carbon-intensive fuels to meet their energy needs. If so, he said the impact of climate change would be “more serious and diverse” than the IPCC’s most recent predictions.

One “little” problem with this Reuters report written by Julie Steenhuysen. Chris Field is not a “top climate scientist.” In fact, he isn’t even a climate scientist at all. Just a wee bit of googling on the part of Steenhuysen would have revealed that Chris Field is a professor of biological sciences whose shtick is pushing something called “global ecology.” Field has no more expertise in predicting future climate patterns than, say, a proctologist performing brain surgery.

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.

Found on Newsbusters.com

Sam Champion Uses Freezing Cold to Tout Global Warming

On Thursday’s “Good Morning America,” weatherman and global warming alarmist Sam Champion slipped some reassuring words about the validity of climate change into his report on the bone chilling temperatures hitting much of the country. After admitting that NASA had declared 2008 to be the coldest year since 2000, he added, “But they [NASA] caution this was caused in part by a cooling La Nina in the pacific and warn global warming is still playing an important part in our changing climate.”

Champion then played a clip of a NASA climate scientist and global warming proponent Gavin Schmidt admonishing, “And, so, it’s a little bit difficult to talk about global warming when you’re going to have the coldest day of the year. But you have to realize that weather isn’t abolished just because there’s a long-term trend in the climate.”

The liberal weatherman faced a similar problem on April 6, 2007. On that day, he delivered this brutal weather report:

SAM CHAMPION: But it’s a shot of cold air and it’s opened the door for arctic air all the way through the nation. Call it about two thirds of the nation getting this push of arctic cold. This is normally a December, mid-December pattern. As this cold air goes, look at the shades of blue in just about all areas.

Champion then proceeded to segue into yet another discussion of global warming. And, of course, this is the same ABC personality who once hosted a segment that fretted about “billions” dying from climate change.

A transcript of the brief mention of global warming on the January 15 show, which aired at 7:04am, follows:

SAM CHAMPION: It feels like the coldest winter in years. And a report from NASA climate scientists says 2008 was the coolest year since 2000. But they caution this was caused in part by a cooling La Nina in the pacific and warn global warming is still playing an important part in our changing climate.

GAVIN SCHMIDT (Climate Scientist, NASA Goddard Inst. For Space Studies): And, so, it’s a little bit difficult to talk about global warming when you’re going to have the coldest day of the year. But you have to realize that weather isn’t abolished just because there’s a long-term trend in the climate.

—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.

Found on Newsbusters.org

Milblogger Michael Yon Considers Suing Michael Moore

Having just won the 2008 Weblog Award for Best Military Blog, Michael Yon is considering filing a lawsuit against schlockumentarian Michael Moore.

Since last May, Yon has been trying without success to get Moore to remove from his website an award-winning picture the milblogger took back in 2005 (photo available here).

Yon explained the situation to his readers on Monday (photo courtesy AP via NYP):

My attorney may have to file a lawsuit against Mr. Michael Moore.  In May we contacted Mr. Moore, through his counsel, about Mr. Moore’s unauthorized use of my work on his website.  He did not respond.  My attorney has written again.  If Mr. Moore and his counsel continue to ignore our correspondence, we will proceed with a lawsuit.

This lawsuit, though, should not be a distraction from combat reporting; the proceedings should be easy and require almost zero hands-on work from me. But it will be potentially costly.  I’ve never sued anyone in my life.  Looks like Mr. Moore might be the first.

According to the New York Post:

Last year, to illustrate one of his anti-administration bombasts, the portly polemicist posted on his michaelmoore.com Web site a heartbreaking photo from Iraq of an American soldier carrying the blood-spattered body of a child. The picture was snapped by acclaimed independent war correspondent Michael Yon, who has been very careful about how his images are distributed and goes out of his way to make sure they aren’t used for demagogic diatribes.

Yon – a Special Forces vet who posts regular dispatches from the front at michaelyon-online.com – is considered by many as the “Ernie Pyle of our time.” [...]

The misappropriated photo shows US Army Maj. Mark Bieger cradling an Iraqi girl wounded by car-bomb shrapnel. She died a short time later.

“The implication on Moore’s Web site was that our soldiers were somehow responsible for that kid being wounded,” Yon’s lawyer, John Mason, told Page Six. “That is absolutely not true. She was the victim of an insurgent’s car bomb.” Yon said: “I’ve never sued anyone in my life. It looks like Mr. Moore might be the first.” Page Six e-mailed Moore for his response, but he didn’t get back to us, either.

The picture was voted by Time readers as the top photo of 2005. Bruce Willis has said he hopes to produce a movie based on Yon’s experiences with the Deuce Four unit.

As Yon posted in 2005, here’s the truth behind what was captured in this picture:

Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She didn’t make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her.

The soldiers went back to that neighborhood the next day to ask what they could do. The people were very warm and welcomed us into their homes, and many kids were actually running up to say hello and to ask soldiers to shake hands.

Eventually, some insurgents must have realized we were back and started shooting at us. The American soldiers and Iraqi police started engaging the enemy and there was a running gun battle. I saw at least one IP who was shot, but he looked okay and actually smiled at me despite the big bullet hole in his leg. I smiled back.

One thing seems certain; the people in that neighborhood share our feelings about the terrorists. We are going to go back there, and if any terrorists come out, the soldiers hope to find them. Everybody is still very angry that the insurgents attacked us when the kids were around. Their day will come.

Hear, hear!

Found on Newsbusters.org

Classy Matthews Blasts Bush After Farewell Address– Defends Tyranny

What will MSNBC do without President Bush?
What will they do with all of their hate when the unicorn rider is in the White House?

Classy Chris Matthews, in complete Bush-derangement mode, bashed the president last night after his farewell address.
Surprising? No.
Disgusting? Yes.
Matthews also attacked the people of the Middle East saying they live in a culture that opposes freedom– that only a strongman can be successful in an Arab country.
How racist!
Obviously, Chris Matthews believes the people of Iraq were somehow better off with Saddam.
Sick.

Perhaps Matthews missed the tremendous progress in Iraq this past year?
Perhaps he didn’t follow the tremendous progress in Iraq this past year?
Perhaps his infliction made it impossible for him to see the progress in Iraq?

Here’s the disgusting personal attacks by Matthews on the president:

Watch the video here

Here is the transcript from NewsBusters:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: The scary thing about the last eight years is that George Bush, whatever you think of him, came to office pretty much tabula rasa in terms of philosophy. He didn’t have much. He was a rich kid driving his father’s car. He got to be President because of his father, let’s face it, the same way he got into school and everything else, the same way he got his car probably. But the scary thing about Bush is somewhere he came to meet people like Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby and Paul Wolfowitz and Feith and the rest of them. They had this ideology that he bought in to, this ideology that somehow the United States in waging war and taking over countries somehow was fighting for freedom, and somehow in doing so we would encourage a moderation in the Arab world. Well, history would have taught him, and I know he just put down history by quoting Jefferson which was unfair to Jefferson, history would have told him that in the Arab world, it’s the Arab street, it’s the regular people out there, the vast population in numbers, who oppose the state of Israel, who have always been radicalized. It’s been the leaders that you could deal with, the potentates, the kings we set up over there, the British did, the people that were propped up with oil wealth. We could deal with those people, but the minute the street had a hand in the politics over there, it was radical.

He decided he’s going to start listening to the intellectuals, so he said this Paul Wolfowitz is such a smart guy, let’s go with this neo-conservative idea, let’s go into Iraq. He listened to Dick Cheney, he listened to the rest of them. And, all of a sudden, he became this new scholar of freedom, and he’s going to spend the rest of his life selling this stuff. This stuff cost the lives of 100,000 Iraqis, it cost the lives of 4,000 U.S. service people, and we don’t know what’s coming around the corner in Iraq. The Brits took over that part of the world and turned it into a series of monarchies. We’ve taken over and we supply it with our ideology. Well, we’ll see if it lasts because, in the end, the Arabs are going to have their own culture, their own politics, and down the road, we’re going to have to make peace with the elements we can find to make peace with.

The idea that we have some brand new neo-conservative ideology of freedom that’s going to bring peace over in that part of the world is not true, and he’s still selling it, and that’s the tragedy of the last eight years. He’s learned the wrong lessons, and he’s out there selling them again tonight.

What is so sad about the Left today is that they don’t even pretend to favor freedom over tyranny. Instead of promoting democracy and individual rights the Left would rather appease tyrants and thugs. We even heard Barack Obama this past year state that genocide was not a good enough excuse to keep US soldiers in Iraq. That is how the American Left thinks today.

It is disappointing to see that the Democratic foreign policy does not include a freedom agenda. It is unnerving to see Matthews and the Left mock the president for promoting freedom.

It’s clear that Chris Matthews won’t miss Bush.
…But certainly there are people out there in Cuba, and North Korea, and Iran, and Burma, who will.

Found on Gateway Pundit

MRC’s Bozell Slams AP for Bush vs. Obama Inaugural Double Standard

Sometimes, Brian, I think we live in a parallel universe, where the media see the world one way when it’s a Democrat in power and another way when a Republican is in power,” NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News Channel’s Brian Kilmeade.

Watch the video here

The Media Research Center president appeared on the January 16 “Fox & Friends” to discuss an astounding contrast that illustrates the media’s liberal biases: the Associated Press scorned the roughly $40 million spent on the 2005 Bush inauguration but is assuring readers that it’s okay to glam it up for the 2009 Obama inauguration.:

BRENT BOZELL: Look at these headlines. We found this, this is from AP. Four years ago on the eve of George Bush’s second inauguration. This is the lede: “President Bush’s second inauguration will cost tens of millions of dollars. Forty million alone in private donations for parties, balls, etc. Then it goes on to say, what else could that money buy….. Now, four years later, same AP news outlet. A story on Barack Obama. According to the Guardian newspaper, he could spend as much as $150 million. That would be three times more than George Bush spent. This is their [AP's] lede: “So you’re attending an inaugural ball saluting the historic election of Barack Obama in the worst economic climate in three generations. Can you get away with glitzing it up and still be appropriate not to mention comfortable and finacially viable? To quote the man of the hour, ‘Yes, you can.’ Veteran ballgoers say you should, and fashionistas say you must.”

BOZELL: In other words, it’s a wonderful thing to spend $150 million if you’re Barack Obama, but you need to be condemned if you spend $43 [million] and you’re George Bush.

Kilmeade then pointed out that another issue the media should look into is bank executives getting federal bailout money giving donations to the inaugural festivities, to which Mr. Bozell added, “The more things change, the more they remain the same. This is buying access, of course it is.”

Found on Newsbusters.org