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Global Warming Bigwig Caught Falsifying Data (Lying)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Wow. Here’s something you won’t read in the NY Times. Peter Glover of the American Thinker reports that Dr. James Hansen (yeah, I only wish it’d been the Goracle), head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), falsified data to make October 2008 appear to be the hottest on record.  It wasn’t.
In October, [...]

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The Biden Quotes You Won’t Read in the Media

Friday, October 3, 2008

These two didn’t get much play today – I’ll start with Biden on Global Warming (from the CNN transcript of the debate):
BIDEN: Well, I think it is manmade. I think it’s clearly manmade. And, look, this probably explains the biggest fundamental difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and Sarah Palin and Joe Biden — [...]

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Time Magazine Editor: We’re Journalists, We’ll Decide

Friday, April 18, 2008

Black Five comments on Time Magazine’s decision to run a “global warming” cover modeling Iwo Jima. Hasn’t gone over all that well with veterans.  The real diamond in the dirt is a comment made by Time managing editor Richard Stengel regarding the role of the press in reporting the news.

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Fuelish Choices and Unintended Consequences

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

In today’s New York Times, Andrew Martin does a good job covering the debate  over grain-based ethanol and global food prices.    As market forces come to bear on grain crops, the fact that 20% of America’s corn crop is going to ethanol is starting to reverberate in the global grain markets.
There shouldn’t be much of [...]

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What an Odd Choice of Words

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The AP’s Ben Feller is certainly a biased feller.  Here are few choice comments from a news story he wrote about President Bush’s comments on the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.  Keep in mind that these comments are in a news story, not an op-ed piece.

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If the Seth from the AP Says It’s Settled, It’s Settled

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Scientists, put your pencils down.  Seth Borenstein of the AP has declared definitively that global warming is a man-made phenomenon.
The fingerprints of man-made climate change are evident in seasonal timing changes for thousands of species on Earth, according to dozens of studies and last year’s authoritative report by the Nobel Prize-winning international climate scientists. More [...]

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Greenspan, Risk, and Global Warming

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The Drudge headline screamed “GREENSPAN: FINANCIAL MESS WORST SINCE WWII…“ ,  hawking the story like a newspaper boys in an old black & whites.  I doubted that Greenspan said that, but was curious as to what he had to say.  Here’s the quote that spawned the headline.
“The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect [...]

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