Linda Frump's ga-ga interview with Peter MacKay in Saturday's National Pisser should be mandatory reading for all journalism students. It's a perfect example of what happens when your political philosophy collides with reality and your philosophy carries the day. Her puffball questions are an embarrassment, almost as big an embarrassment as the young man himself, who is clearly in over his head in Foreign Affairs.
Or take a look at the front page story on Al Gore's film. First we have a "northern" annonymous student stating he has done enough research to know Gore's film is too one sided to be taught as fact. The kid is so sure of his ground he hides behind his Mommy who asked that his identity be hidden. But read throught the article and the best the National Pisser can do is quote one climatologist who worries about "overselling our certainty about knowing the future" and James Hansen a NASA scientist and Gore advisor who says "we need to be more careful in describing the hurricane story than he is."
The story then claims "scientists", all anonymous, disagree with a number of points. Problem is, no one puts a name to anything and the facts are not backed up.
The long story is another piece of right wing propaganda that is aimed at stopping any activity that might harm the corporate world and their profits.
Those two stories are on page 1 and page 3 of the National Pisser and there are myriad other examples throughout the paper. Editorial positions are one thing but when a paper lets political objectives color and distort its reporting, its not a newspaper it's a rag practising yellow journalism. Conrad Black's real fraud is not the non-compete millions he scarfed, it's the Pisser he left behind in Toronto.
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You sound more like Dr. Suzuki doing his rant when he gets asked questions he can't answer . . . cause he's a bug scientist!!!
You have been asking for names . . . I have been asking for names for two years . . . all I get is silly Al, Suzuki . . . the presentators!!!
I could give you volumes that has been written by real scientists regarding the imagined GW senario. Did you watch the GW Swindle? Those were real climate scientists . . . with real facts . . . unlike Al's piece of imagined disasters.
And you are upset with a newspaper for presenting opposing views . . . go back to watching the CBC . . . you will fit right in!!
Here's the latest little piece . . . by a real scientist . .
Global warming debunked
By ANDREW SWALLOW - The Timaru Herald | Saturday, 19 May 2007
Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week.
Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn't change the climate if we tried, he maintained.
"We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years," he said.
A combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, media hype, and political spin had created the current hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it.
"It is time to attack the myth of global warming," he said.
Water vapour was responsible for 95 per cent of the greenhouse effect, an effect which was vital to keep the world warm, he explained.
"If we didn't have the greenhouse effect the planet would be at minus 18 deg C but because we do have the greenhouse effect it is plus 15 deg C, all the time."
The other greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, and various others including CFCs, contributed only five per cent of the effect, carbon dioxide being by far the greatest contributor at 3.6 per cent.
However, carbon dioxide as a result of man's activities was only 3.2 per cent of that, hence only 0.12 per cent of the greenhouse gases in total. Human-related methane, nitrogen dioxide and CFCs etc made similarly minuscule contributions to the effect: 0.066, 0.047 and 0.046 per cent respectively.
"That ought to be the end of the argument, there and then," he said.
"We couldn't do it (change the climate) even if we wanted to because water vapour dominates."
Yet the Greens continued to use phrases such as "The planet is groaning under the weight of CO2" and Government policies were about to hit industries such as farming, he warned.
"The Greens are really going to go after you because you put out 49 per cent of the countries emissions. Does anybody ask 49 per cent of what? Does anybody know how small that number is?
"It's become a witch-hunt; a Salem witch-hunt," he said.
Rebuttals on Algore’s scarey movie by REAL SCIENTISTS . . .
Dr. Chris de Freitas, climate scientist, associate professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand: ”I can assure Mr. Gore that no one from the South Pacific islands have fled to New Zealand because of rising seas. In fact, if Gore consults the data, he will see it shows sea level falling in some parts of the Pacific.”
Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, emeritus professor of paleogeophysics & geodynamics, Stockholm University, Sweden: “We find no alarming sea level rise going on, in the Maldives, Tovalu, Venice, the Persian Gulf and even satellite altimetry if applied properly.”
Dr. Paul Reiter, Professor - Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insects and Infectious Diseases, Paris, France, comments on Gore’s belief that Nairobi and Harare were founded just above the mosquito line to avoid malaria and how the mosquitoes are now moving to higher altitudes: “Gore is completely wrong here - malaria has been documented at an altitude 2500 m - Nairobi and Harare are at altitudes of about 1500 m. The new altitudes of malaria are lower than those recorded 100 years ago. None of the “30 so called new diseases” Gore references are attributable to global warming, none.”
Dr. Mitchell Taylor, Manager, Wildlife Research Section, Department of Environment, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada: “Our information is that 7 of 13 populations of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (more than half the world’s estimated total) are either stable, or increasing …. Of the three that appear to be declining, only one has been shown to be affected by climate change. No one can say with certainty that climate change has not affected these other populations, but it is also true that we have no information to suggest that it has.”
Dr. Petr Chylek, adjunct professor, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: “Mr. Gore suggests that Greenland melt area increased considerably between 1992 and 2005. But 1992 was exceptionally cold in Greenland and the melt area of ice sheet was exceptionally low due to the cooling caused by volcanic dust emitted from Mt. Pinatubo. If, instead of 1992, Gore had chosen for comparison the year 1991, one in which the melt area was 1% higher than in 2005, he would have to conclude that the ice sheet melt area is shrinking and that perhaps a new ice age is just around the corner.”
Dr. Gary D. Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, California: “The oceans are now heading into one of their periodic phases of cooling. … Modest changes in temperature are not about to wipe them [coral] out. Neither will increased carbon dioxide, which is a fundamental chemical building block that allows coral reefs to exist at all.”
Dr. R. M. Carter, professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia: “Both the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps are thickening. The temperature at the South Pole has declined by more than 1 degree C since 1950. And the area of sea-ice around the continent has increased over the last 20 years.”
Dr./Cdr. M. R. Morgan, FRMS, formerly advisor to the World Meteorological Organization/climatology research scientist at University of Exeter, U.K.: “From data published by the Canadian Ice Service there has been no precipitous drop off in the amount or thickness of the ice cap since 1970 when reliable over-all coverage became available for the Canadian Arctic.”
Rob Scagel, M.Sc., forest microclimate specialist, Pacific Phytometric Consultants, Surrey, British Colombia, Canada comments on Gore’s belief that the Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) is an “invasive exotic species” that has become a plague due to fewer days of frost: “The MPB is a species native to this part of North America and is always present. The MPB epidemic started as comparatively small outbreaks and through forest management inaction got completely out of hand.”
I could fill you computer with stuff that is anti-Koyoto by real scientists . . . but I am still waiting for the list of believing Scientists!!!
By the way . . . maybe you could explain to me how CO2 that makes up .05% of the atmosphere, man's contribution being 4% of that .05%, could effect the weather on the planet???
Still waiting for that one too!!!
Hanson . . . wasn't he the one who said it was going to be 3 or 4 degrees C warmer by 2007??
Well, what happened, he is about 300% wrong . . . not to mention the non-huricane season last year . . . another failed prediction. Jeannie Dixon had a better success rate than these clowns!!!
Did I tell you about my relative that lived in Greenland 1000 years ago? They farmed, raised animals and lived there for several hundred years . . . not there today though . . . wonder why??
The weather guys couldn't get the forcast right for the weekend . . . how the hell could they tell you what is will be like in 10, 20 or 30 years??
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