Hurricanes
Media’s Chicken Little Hurricane Predictions Fall Flat
December 4th, 2013 12:05 PM
Hurricane season ended Nov. 30, with an all time-low for hurricanes. The weak outcome didn’t fit the environmental disaster narrative the media had concocted leading up to hurricane season. ABC, NBC and CBS devoted broadcasts to scaring viewers with news of “devastating tornadoes, searing heat waves, withering droughts” and “powerful hurricanes.” But they became strangely silent once the…
WashPost's Milbank: GOPers 'Slashing the Tires' and 'Then Complaining
October 30th, 2013 6:58 PM
On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank joined host Al Sharpton in lambasting Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Tom Coburn for attending a fund-raiser in New York City the day before the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Sharpton griped:
Berkeley Climate Scientist: IPCC Predictions ‘Getting Worse
October 30th, 2013 3:09 PM
While climate alarmists and the media continue to link everything, including storms like Hurricane Sandy, to climate change, one scientist recently admitted to HuffPost Live that accuracy of forecasts is deteriorating.
Jane Long, Berkeley researcher and associate director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, cast doubt on climate change forecasts in an Oct. 29 HuffPost Live segment…
1 Year Later: Media Link Climate Change, Sandy Every Single Time
October 29th, 2013 4:41 PM
During the 2008 banking crisis, then-Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel famously said, “Never allow a crisis to go to waste.” The broadcast networks certainly followed his advice when reporting on Hurricane Sandy since the storm became a hurricane one year ago, hitting the New Jersey coast on Oct. 29.
Network reporters and experts have repeatedly claimed that the storm was either caused or…
Hurricane Sandy Relief: Networks Attack GOP, But Mention Pork Only
October 29th, 2013 2:10 PM
Striking the Northeast on Oct. 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy tragically devastated communities causing an estimated $50 billion in damages. By the end of January 2013, a relief bill was passed for Sandy aid, after the bill was delayed because of wasteful spending.
House Republicans opposed a pork-ridden $60 billion Senate bill ($10 billion higher than damage estimates) and chose not to vote on it…
AP: 'Temperatures Go Off the Charts Around
October 9th, 2013 5:34 PM
With egg all over the faces of global warming alarmists given the halt in temperature increases the past fifteen years, you would think media outlets would be a little gun-shy concerning "studies" predicting environmental doom with the help of climate models.
Not the Associated Press's Seth Borenstein who actually published a piece Wednesday about a study having the gall to predict the exact…
Networks Embrace ‘Catastrophic’ Warnings of Latest IPCC Report
October 2nd, 2013 2:21 PM
The UN’s climate panel (IPCC) released its latest warning about "catastrophic" climate change on Sept. 27, garnering the frantic attention of all three broadcast networks that night. CBS even aired a claim about temperatures rising “more than 200 degrees."
Predictably, the evening news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC Sept. 27 repeated the IPCC’s dire warnings without including any skeptics and…
Joan Walsh: ‘Obama Got the Last Laugh’ When People Died During Sup
June 25th, 2013 6:49 PM
There are times when I can’t believe liberal media members are in any way part of the United States of America.
On MSNBC’s Hardball Tuesday, Salon’s Joan Walsh actually said “Obama got the last laugh” when people died as a result of Superstorm Sandy because it rebuffed something Mitt Romney said about the President at last year’s Republican National Convention (video follows with transcript…
Networks Fail to Mention ‘Lull’ in Warming in All 92 Climate Chang
June 25th, 2013 9:57 AM
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…
AP Coverage of Exxon Annual Meeting Contains Predictable Misleading 'C
May 29th, 2013 10:59 PM
David Koenig's Wednesday coverage at the Associated Press of Exxon Mobil's annual meeting contained a predictable headline and related content telling us that the company wouldn't "explicitly ban discrimination against gays because the company already banned discrimination of any type and didn't need to add language regarding gays." Koenig's report apparently couldn't be considered complete…
Global Warming Skeptics Rebut Face the Nation Segment on Climate Chang
May 27th, 2013 10:23 AM
CBS's Face the Nation Sunday spent fifteen minutes discussing climate change and amongst other things its impact on tornadoes - in particular the EF-5 that hit Moore, Oklahoma, last week.
As not one global warming skeptic was invited to participate in the panel, I've taken the liberty of getting opinions from some of the leaders on the realist side of the debate (video follows with commentary…
Christie Dismisses Climate Change Question from NBC's Lauer as 'Distra
May 24th, 2013 4:19 PM
In an interview with Chris Christie on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer grilled the New Jersey Governor on his skepticism that man-made climate change caused Superstorm Sandy: "You said you don't think there's been any proof thus far that Sandy was caused by climate change. Several experts I've heard from say the destruction, though, from Sandy, was probably more severe because of…
Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams 'Ambulance Chasing' by Global Warming
May 22nd, 2013 6:34 PM
Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, meteorologist Joe Bastardi of Weatherbell Analytics -- formerly of AccuWeather -- argued against the view that global warming is causing more violent tornadoes and compared Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's recent comments blaming recent weather disasters on global warming to "ambulance chasing." Bastardi:
Sen. Whitehouse Blames GOP For Okla. Tornado, Storms, Rising Seas, Etc
May 21st, 2013 10:08 AM
In remarks which will more than likely be ignored by the establishment press, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in essence blamed yesterday's deadly tornado which struck Moore, Oklahoma on Republicans who have "run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings." Whitehouse was intensely upset because, in his view these red state ignoramuses who are allowing ever more intense,…