Category Archives: The Media
Acciona’s Dirty Little Secret
Wind farm promoters, turbine makers and power companies all seem to shy away when it comes to disclosing meaningful information, especially the “efficiency” (or lack of it) of wind farms. The Ballart Vic. based Courier newspaper recently published the following:
NWF tries to send overpopulation efforts down memory hole and replace with global warming fears
An interesting email from Michael Potts: I was looking at the website and articles of the National Wildlife Federation and noticed they seem to have made a concerted effort to wipe out all mention of their previous focus on overpopulation and replace it with a new focus on global warming using some Orwellian memory hole [...]
Who pays Wikipedia’s William M. Connolley?
A kneejerk response towards anyone who challenges the Green/Left is to say that the challenger is “in the pay” of someone — usually “Big Oil” — and usually without a scrap of evidence to that effect. The email below from Thomas Lux [beegdawg007@gmail.com], however, suggests that one influential Greenie activist is so busy with his [...]
British government adverts banned for overstating climate change
Two government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm. The adverts, commissioned by Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, used the rhymes to suggest that Britain faces an inevitable increase in storms, floods and heat [...]
1989 NYT: No Warming In US Since 1895
1989 NYT: No Warming In US Since 1895 From the archives of the New York Times: After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period.
Belief in climate change dives in Britain
Belief in climate change dives in Britain PUBLIC conviction in Britain about the threat of climate change has plummeted after months of questions over the science and growing disillusionment with government action, a leading poll has found. Reports yesterday said the proportion of adults who believed climate change was “definitely” a reality dropped by 13 [...]
A blizzard of global warming hype
A blizzard of global warming hype It had to happen. In the midst of the record snowfall in the East, some mainstream media outlet had to try to link this season’s unusual weather events to global warming. Time was the first news organization to take the plunge. It published such an article on February 10 [...]
BBC’s billions that fund a green agenda
BBC’s billions that fund a green agenda How amusing! This has made my day. The BBC is betting its employees’ retirement money on global warming being right. It’s literally putting its money where its mouth is — but it is backing the wrong horse. Its employees will be frothing mad about it in the not [...]
BBC: ‘Dramatic shift’
BBC: ‘Dramatic shift’ — Climate skepticism ‘on the rise’ — AGW believers in minority The number of British people who are sceptical about climate change is rising, a poll for BBC News suggests. The Populus poll of 1,001 adults found 25% did not think global warming was happening, a rise of 8% since a similar [...]
Wobbly Prophecies
Wobbly prophecies about the impact of global warming The excerpt below is from Revkin of the NYT, a Warmist. But even he can see some very poor “science” in the most recent IPCC report: The report on impacts of climate change – one of three main sections of each of the panel’s periodic assessments — [...]