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Ideological conservatives hold The New York Times and The Washington Post to be beneath contempt, as poster children of their bizaare conceptions of media thease are supposed bastions of liberal bias. When it comes to climate change issues, however, The Washington Post (and, more seriously, Washington Post Writers’ Group) embrace of “fair and balanced” rather […]

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As discussed in WashPost: Complicit in Disformation (or explicit collaboration)?, last Sunday’s George Will column was a disgraceful example of distorted discussion of climate change issues. This deceitful piece and the Washington Post’s seeming backing of it has created an uproar through the blogosphere that is seriously questioning what this sort of shoddy editorial management […]

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Oregonians, represented by some of the better politicians when it comes to energy and climate issues, were served up a rather distasteful stew of “Fair and Balanced” reporting by Scott Learn of The Oregonian the other day. In Dueling global warming studies heat up Oregon’s debate, Learn makes Faux News proud by presented a University […]

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George Will’s Carbon Power Brokers stands in a long-line of examples of The Washington Post giving space to global warming denial disinformation. How bad was this one? Bad enough that one of the cited sources had to step up to respond to Will’s distortion on a holiday. Will wrote As global levels of sea ice […]

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The Washington Post has a strong history of being “fair and balanced” within its pages when it comes to Global Warming issues, providing column inch after column inch of space to those actively seeking to deceive when it comes to what might (what likely will be) the most critical issue for this century. Without question, […]

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Dr Vicky Pope, the head of climate change advice at the Met Office Hadley Centre, wrote an opinion piece for the Guardian. Scientists must rein in misleading climate change claims News headlines vie for attention and it is easy for scientists to grab this attention by linking climate change to the latest extreme weather event […]

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Joe Romm, in his book Hell and High Water, had this to say about why we should be cautious about meteorologists talking about Global Warming/Catastrophic Climate Change. Asking a meteorologist to explain the cause of recent extreme weather is like asking your family doctor what the chances are for an avian flu pandemic in the […]

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A guest post from Gooch who took the time (and emotion) to provide a comprehensive and impressively polite reproach to a denier’s disingenuous argument. To the extent that someone is an ‘honest’ skeptic, this provides the substance to change a mind that is ‘open’ to truth.  Enjoy … and learn. I got an email from […]

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Sadly, every time that we fill up our gas tank, flip the switch for fossil-foolish electricity, warm ourselves with (high efficiency?) natural gas, we risk sending funding to people dedicated to destroying the potential for fostering paths toward mitigation of global warming and our other serious challenges. Fractions of pennies add up to serious money, […]

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Let’s face facts: web polls, with close to zero controls over voting/such and no scientific sampling, are pretty close to meaningless. Even so … a web poll result on CNN or in the traditional media carries “weight” with the casual reader (which is most, right). And, there is the “best of …” status that we’ll […]

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