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By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Tuesday, October 13, 2009


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Climate Depot Editorial - Serving as the Media's Ombudsman


1. Senate committee hearings to begin on
climate bill Oct. 27
It has finally happened. We have reached the “tipping point.”
2. Fmr. Clinton Admin. Official Reich:
2009 can now be officially declared the year the media lost their faith in man-made global warming fears. White House EPA regulatory threat is
'no real threat...can keep the EPA tied
Significant organs of the mainstream media are now officially abandoning one-sided man-made global up in litigation for years'
warming fear promotion and alleged claims that the "debate is over." 3. Columnist: 'Global warming consensus
cools': 'They're going to have to rely on
The stunning media reversal has accelerated in recent weeks as top UN scientists have raised the specter of real data, not failed models and scare
continued global cooling. See: UN Fears (More) Global Cooling Commeth! IPCC Scientist Warns UN: stories, and the Big Lie'
We may be about to enter 'one or even 2 decades during which temps cool' – Sept. 5, 2009 4. 'Ship logs revealed evidence that climate
change may not be as rapid as believed -
It appears at long last that media's faith is waning. Appeals to authority about the alleged global warming - with many charting little or no change
“consensus” are now being met with a healthy dose of skepticism by increasing large portions of the in Arctic sea temps'
mainstream media. Statements like UN IPCC lead author Kevin Trenberth that the UN IPCC "has 5. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Waxman-
spoken" no longer have the comforting effect on many key members of the journalistic flock. [Disclaimer: Markey Climate Bill - August '09: 'We
This declaration does not mean the battle to improve the media's coverage of global warming is over. will kill this bill'

But it does mean that there have been significant developments in 2009 with the media's coverage of 6. Archbishop of Canterbury: 'Go green to
climate change. Promoters of man-made climate fears will now need a major reformation to win back save your soul'
the faith of key members of the media.] 7. Losing Their Religion: 2009 officially
declared year the media lost their faith
A steady stream of peer-reviewed studies, a continued lack of global warming, real world data and in man-made global warming fears
scientists c ontinuing to dissent, have finally moved major establishment media outlets to report that the
8. GOP Sen. Graham: 'I can't
debate not only is "not over" but that skeptics may have been correct all along. [Note: Journalists are now imagine...arguing to the public that
sensing what Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination climate change is not real and man is
Center in Pittsburgh, warned about in 2008. “Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out not contributing to it'

quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined," Peden said.] 9. Ignorant Skeptics?: UN Scientist Prof.
Trenberth says only 'poorly informed'
Close followers of climate science development foresaw this collapse of the science is "settled" reporting scientists disagree with UN - Appeals to
way back in 2006. Here is a breakdown of how the science of man-made global warming and the alleged Authority: 'The IPCC has spoken'

"consensus" has fared since 2006. 10. Another climate debate: Dr. William
Gray vs. UN IPCC's Dr. Kevin
1) 2006: Year of Vindication for Skeptics: Renowned Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming TrenberthGray: 'Considerable evidence
– Caps Year of Vindication for Skeptics - October 17, 2006 that global warming over last 100 years
is largely natural'
2) 2007 - GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM REACHES A TIPPING POINT - October 26, 2007 11. CNN's Lou Dobbs Hosts Rare Global
(Editor's Note: 2007 is also known as the year 'Anthropogenic global warming bites the dust' as 'New Warming Debate Over Gore's 'Errors' --
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears' - August 20, 2007 Mocks claim that cap-and-trade is
'market based plan' (Video)
3) 2008: 'Consensus' On Man-Made Global Warming Collapses in 2008 – July 18, 2008 12. Video Part 1: CNN's Lou Dobbs
Promotes Balanced Climate Debate -
4) 2009: 'Consensus' Continues its Freefall – March 12, 2009 Reports on Gore's science 'errors'

2009 can now be officially declared the year the media lost their faith in man-made global warming fears. 13. Video Part 2: 'Not Evil Just Wrong'
director rips Fred Krupp of
[Note: The collapse of man-made climate fears has even prompted Al Gore's producer, environmental
Environmental Defense Fund's for being
activist Laurie David, to already tout the next eco-scare. See: AGW RIP? Is It Time for Next Eco-Scare 'millionaire lawyer who calls himself an
Already? Gore's producer Laure David touts plastic crisis: 'Plastic waste is in some ways more alarming environmentalist'
for us humans than global warming' - July 31, 2009 & UK Green Party: 'There exists a more serious 14. Meteorlogist: Claims 'that this will be
crisis than the 'CO2 crisis': the oxygen levels are dropping and the human activity has decreased them by the warmest decade is nonsense'
1/3 or ½']
15. Florida orange crop may drop 16% due
to freezing temps, USDA says
In addition to the media, even climate and environmental activists are now questioning global warming. See:
Climate Activists Shock Admission: 'Climate change campaigners should not have fixated on carbon
dioxide' – Sept. 18, 2009 & See: Even activists at green festivals are now expressing doubts over man-
made climate fears: 'I'm not sure climate change is real' - August 8, 2009.

The public has grown increasingly skeptical as the promoters of man-made climate fears have grown more
dire. See: Climate Depot Factsheet on Public Opinion About Global Warming: Americans Growing
Increasingly Skeptical - Sept. 22, 2009 & See: Climate Depot Factsheet on "climate astrology."

Houston Chronicle Reporter: 'I am confused'

Perhaps the most dramatic public announcement came in September from Houston Chronicle science reporter
Eric Berger. See: Sept. 2009: Houston Chronicle Reporter Reconsiders Science is 'Settled' Claims! 'I am
confused. Four years ago this all seemed like a fait accompli' - "Earth seems to have, at least temporarily,
stopped warming," Berger wrote on September 6, 2009. "If we can't have confidence in short-term prognosis
for climate change, how can we have full confidence in long-term?" Berger asked.

Other high profile climate reporters like Andrew Revkin of the New York Times are now writing articles
about how the UN is failing to achieve scientific and political dominance. See: NYT's Moment of Clarity:
UN faces challenge achieving climate treaty 'when global temps have been stable for a decade and may
even drop in next few years' – Sept. 23, 2009

Also See: NYT's Moment of Clarity: 'Nobel Halo Fades Fast for UN IPCC Climate Change Panel' -- 'It
could quickly lose relevance' - August 4, 2009

'What happened to global warming'

The BBC stunned the journalism community with its October 8, 2009 article by their climate correspondent
Paul Hudson. The BBC headline reverberated across the globe: "What happened to global warming." The
BBC article went on to explain in detail about the lack of global warming and the fact that many scientists are
predicting a coming global cooling. See: Shock: BBC's Moment of Clarity: 'What happened to global
warming?' -- 'Debate about what is causing it is far from over' – By BBC Climate Correspondent Paul
Hudson - October 8, 2009

The scientific, cultural and political impact of the BBC's new perspective on man-made global warming was
astounding. Headlines blared:

1) 'Frightening hysteria that so gripped the media...is finally subsiding'

2) BBC article is 'a bit like the Catholic church questioning the existence of god'

3) 'The BBC's amazing U-turn on climate change'

4) Rare events: BBC questions global warming and Gore takes questions

The BBC began exhibiting this new found climate skepticism in July 2009. See:

Moment of Clarity: BBC Wakes Up To Benefits Of Warming -- And To Climate Skepticism! - July 30, 3009

BBC journalist Richard Black also appeared to shift his climate views in 2009. See: BBC's Richard Black
Sees The Light -- Asks 'Does climate cloud the bigger picture?'- July 5, 2009 & BBC's Richard Black is
asking the right questions! 'Has climate change hijacked the wider environmental agenda?' - August
27, 2009

Not to be left out of the fresh air of journalistic balance and the new recognition of climate reality, the UK
Times and the Christian Science Monitor jumped out of the gates with their own new found skeptical take on
man-made climate fears in recent days.

See: 1) More Media Deserts Global Warming! UK Sunday Times: 'Why everything you think you
know about global warming is wrong' – October 11, 2009

2) MORE MEDIA BAILING ON GLOBAL WARMING PROMOTION: Christian Science Monitor:


'Biggest news you've never heard: Earth isn't warming' – October 10, 2009

Even the Washington Post is finally coming around to balance objectivity in their climate reporting. See:
Wash. Post reporting makes progress! Article concedes sea level computer model 'predictions could be
flawed or flat wrong' - June 9, 2009

Sadly, not every reporter at the Post has kept up with the latest climate developments as the paper continued
to churn out shoddy reporting from Post staff writer Juliet Eilperin. See: Wash. Post's Juliet Eilperin
Rejects Journalistic Balance -- Touts 'Political' UN Climate Scare Report - September 25, 2009

On a more humorous note, Washington Post's Andrew Freedman has been reduced to blaming President
Obama and Climate Depot for the failure of man-made climate fears to persuade the public. See: Wash. Post
Blames Obama For Failure of Global Warming Movement! President's 'mistakes may cost the planet
dearly' - Sept. 1, 2009

CNN's Lou Dobbs, also moved solidly into the skeptical camp in 2009. See: CNN's Lou Dobbs Becomes
More Skeptical - Reconsiders Climate Views

Joining Dobbs in having an apparent conversion to skepticism was CBS newsman Charles Osgood. See: CBS
Newsman Charles Osgood A Climate Skeptic? Questions Whether Quiet Sun May 'Counteract' Global
Warming - April 21, 2009

National Geographic also wrote some very good articles presenting the potential benefits of any future global
warming. See: National Geographic's Moment of Clarity: 'Emerging evidence' reveals 'rising temps
could benefit millions of Africans in the driest parts of the continent' - July 31, 2009

Beyond Hope?

There are still many members of the mainstream media who are likely beyond hope in terms of shifting their
woeful climate change reporting to reflect the new scientific realities. Among these lost souls are Bill
Blakemore of ABC News and Scott Pelley of CBS News. No amount of deprogramming is likely to impact
their orthodox climate beliefs. [See: ABC's Bill Blakemore's new reporting low: 'Rising temps are helping
both heroin traffickers and their Taliban and al Qaeda supporters' - October 10, 2009 and see: “I don't
like the word 'Balance''- Says ABC News Global Warming Reporter – October 30, 2006 - Also see: Scott
Pelley of CBS News publicly compared scientists skeptical of global warming fears to Holocaust deniers: 'If I
do an interview with Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?' Pelley said in a
March 23, 2006 interview with CBS News.]

The verdict is still out on the Associated Press climate reporter Seth Borenstein. Borenstein has shown the
ability to do balanced global warming reporting, but more often than not, descends into lazy one-sided
reporting. See: 'Long sad history of AP reporter Seth Borenstein's woeful global warming reporting' -
August 21, 2009

CNN's Climate Coverage Improves

CNN's coverage of global warming radically improved in 2009, since the news network let go its climate fear
promoting science reporter Miles O'Brien and his CNN producer Peter Dykstra. The same goes for The
Weather Channel. The network's coverage of climate issues has improved dramatically since the woeful
Heidi Cullen was let go. These are two ironclad instances where budget cutbacks and staff reductions
noticeably improved climate news coverage.

Another key issue in 2009, was the intensification of threats and intimidation directed towards climate
skeptics by the global warming faithful. See: 'Execute' Skeptics! Shock Call To Action: 'At what point do
we jail or execute global warming deniers' -- 'Shouldn't we start punishing them now?' - June 3, 2009

Expect More Climate Debates

One final key development in 2009, was a growing and surprising willingness by some man-made climate
fear promoters to actually agree to engage in debates. See here for some examples. Expect to see a big
increase in global warming debates as the warming faithful realize their "debate is over" tactics and refusal to
debate has hurt their case immensely.

Sampling of Media's Loss of Faith In Global Warming (includes some political leaders as well):

Shock: BBC's Moment of Clarity: 'What happened to global warming?' -- 'Debate about what is
causing it is far from over' - 'Cooling worldwide temperatures could last another 10-20 years' -- 'Warmest
year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998' – October 9, 2009

Excerpt: Excerpt: This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year
recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not
observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-
made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. So
what on Earth is going on? Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's
influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming. They argue that there are natural cycles, over
which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. [...] Skeptics insist it is unlikely that
temperatures will reach the dizzy heights of 1998 until 2030 at the earliest. It is possible, they say, that
because of ocean and solar cycles a period of global cooling is more likely. One thing is for sure. It seems the
debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say its hotting up.

More Media Deserts Global Warming! UK Sunday Times: 'Why everything you think you know about
global warming is wrong' – October 11, 2009

MORE MEDIA BAILING ON GLOBAL WARMING PROMOTION: Christian Science Monitor:


'Biggest news you've never heard: Earth isn't warming' – October 10, 2009

Sept. 2009: Houston Chronicle Reporter Reconsiders Science is 'Settled' Claims! 'I am confused. 4
years ago this all seemed like a fait accompli'

NYT's Moment of Clarity: UN faces challenge achieving climate treaty 'when global temps have been
stable for a decade and may even drop in next few years'

Climate Activists Shock Admission: 'Climate change campaigners should not have fixated on carbon
dioxide' -- 'only responsible for about half of the problem'

'Frightening hysteria that so gripped the media...is finally subsiding'

BBC article is 'a bit like the Catholic church questioning the existence of god'

'The BBC's amazing U-turn on climate change'

Rare events: BBC questions global warming and Gore takes questions

Wash. Post Blames Obama For Failure of Global Warming Movement! President's 'mistakes may cost
the planet dearly' - Sept. 1, 2009

BBC's Richard Black Sees The Light -- Asks 'Does climate cloud the bigger picture?'- July 5, 2009

BBC's Richard Black is asking the right questions! 'Has climate change hijacked the wider
environmental agenda?' - August 27, 2009

CNN's Lou Dobbs Becomes More Skeptical - Reconsiders Climate Views

CBS Newsman Charles Osgood A Climate Skeptic? Questions Whether Quiet Sun May 'Counteract'
Global Warming - April 21, 2009

NYT's Moment of Clarity: 'Nobel Halo Fades Fast for UN IPCC Climate Change Panel' -- 'It could
quickly lose relevance' - August 4, 2009

BBC's Moment of Clarity on Climate! '4000 years ago, Earth was significantly warmer than it is now' -
July 26, 2009

Moment of Clarity: BBC Wakes Up To Benefits Of Warming -- And To Climate Skepticism! - July 30,
3009

National Geographic's Moment of Clarity: 'Emerging evidence' reveals 'rising temps could benefit
millions of Africans in the driest parts of the continent' - July 31, 2009

Shock from NYT: Missing Its Spots: 'Sun may be on verge of falling into an extended slumber' -- could
cause 'extended chilly period' - July 20, 2009

Wash. Post reporting makes progress! Article concedes sea level computer model 'predictions could be
flawed or flat wrong' - June 9, 2009

Wash. Post's Moment of Clarity: 'Carbon emissions will not be reduced by international bureaucrats
sitting in a room and signing a piece of paper' - July 14, 2009 - Excerpt: 'They will not be reduced by
public relations campaigns or by Oscar-winning documentaries...or by a complex treaty that neither the UN
nor anyone else can possibly supervise'

Wash. Post's Moment of Clarity: In Poorer Nations, Energy Needs Trump Climate Issues -- 'Dearth of
power hinders prosperity' - September 9, 2009 - Excerpt: 'Millions of people are eager to buy their first
washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners'

Sen. McCain's Moment of Clarity: Climate bill is a 'Farce' -- 'I would not only not vote for it. I am
opposed to it entirely' - August 4, 2009

GOP Gov. Pawlenty's Moment of Clarity: 'Shifts on Climate...used to make soaring speeches...now he's
making jokes'- August 24, 2009

Moment of Clarity: Florida Gov. Crist tables climate summit to avert GOP heat: 'He won't be touting
the work he did with Sheryl Crow' - August 12, 2009

Moment of Clarity for 'GOP's Al Gore'! Gov. Charlie Crist may cancel summit on climate...backing
away from cap-and-trade: 'It may be a tax' - August 7, 2009

Buzz up!

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