This headline is from a 1922 Washington Post. (Read More)
I’ve had a number of friends tell me they agree with everything on my blog, except the global warming stuff. I’m a little ambivalent. I did find Al Gore’s talk very persuasive. Nevertheless, whenever the media dedicates itself to either making me scared, or making me hate someone (Iranians), all my bullshit detectors go off. I’m wary of the issue being leveraged to expand global governance.
I believe in the scientific community (for much of a life, I thought I’d be a part of it), though I recognize the lapses too, like their enthusiastic endorsement of eugenics at the turn of the previous century.
My recommendation is to shun the Big Media hype and read what actual climate scientists are saying: www.realclimate.org.
i’m disappointed to read this; i think you’re failing to distinguish between the media dedicating itself to scaring you and something genuinely scary. as gore points out in the new ted talk (your link doesn’t work), the media is in no way set on scaring you about this – but in fact ignoring the issue with all its might. the powers that be are very invested in brushing off global warming as so much hippie handwringing (like that crazy tree hugger stuff about the bees dying).
ps i’ve only read page 1 (of 11), but you may be interested in today’s nyt article: “behind military analysts, the pentagon’s hidden hand.”
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html
I respectfully disagree with your assessment of the media’s coverage.
” To better assess network behavior on this key topic, the Business & Media Institute examined 205 stories from ABC, CBS and NBC that mentioned “global warming” or “climate change” between July 1, 2007, and Dec. 31, 2007.
BMI found skepticism was shut out of a vast majority of reports. Overall, a measly 20 percent had any dissent at all referenced by a journalist or guest.
Skeptical voices were suppressed by the networks, outnumbered by nearly a 7-to-1 ratio by those promoting fear of climate change or being used by the network for the same purpose. CBS had an even worse record: nearly 38 proponents to one skeptic.
Lengthy segments like Scott Pelley’s Oct. 21, 2007, ’60 Minutes’ story on ‘The Age of Megafires’ certainly had time to include an alternative point of view to the notion that global warming is largely responsible for bigger, hotter fires in the American West. But Pelley skipped those voices – voices like a University of California Merced professor published on the Washington Spokesman-Review Web site about the California wildfires.”
(Read More from globalresearch.ca)