In a year with seeming unending demonstrations of mounting climate disruption and increasingly on-target science-based reporting on climate change, this PBS News Hour chose to present to the public a shallow ‘he-said, she-said’ report giving visibility to one of the blogosphere’s most prominent anti-science syndrome sufferers without providing the casual viewer any context for understanding […]
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PBS News Hour’s public service: demonstrating the shallowness of mainstream modern American journalism
September 17th, 2012 · Comments Off on PBS News Hour’s public service: demonstrating the shallowness of mainstream modern American journalism
Tags: climate delayers · journalism
“Weather Gone Wild”: Weather Channel soft porn? No, thoughtful National Geographic article …
August 15th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Have to say that “Weather Gone Wild” sounds all too close to tasteless (and discomfitting) late-night advertising during repeats of old B movies on obscure cable channels (happily not seen for a long time). This could easily be the title for much of The Weather Channel’s programming. In fact, this is the cover story and […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · journalism · science
Will-ful double standards on statistics — and the Village’s tolerance of it
July 9th, 2012 · 3 Comments
Washington Post group writer George Will stands out in multiple ways. In terms of his writing, two arenas seem to rouse his greatest passion: baseball and global warming science denial. These two passions are highly interlocked, not because baseball players will have to deal with ever hotter summers in the future nor the debate about […]
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Calling on (out) Arianna
April 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment
This is a full reposting, at request, of a post by insightful science writer Shawn Lawrence Otto. The problems of questionable publishing on science issues is far (sadly) from limited to the mediocre post re the Denialist 49’s letter to NASA. There was, for example, Harold Ambler’s post re Vice President Gore which led Arianna […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism
AOL’s utterly misleading title re gasoline prices impact on auto buyers
April 10th, 2012 · Comments Off on AOL’s utterly misleading title re gasoline prices impact on auto buyers
AOL Auto News popped into my inbox and their first story headline had me clicking to read the full piece. The title in question: Car Buyers Won’t Change Habits Until Gas Hits $6.51 A Gallon Rising gas prices are changing consumers habits, but not the way you may think Pretty dramatic news,that gas prices would […]
Tags: automobiles · Energy · energy efficiency · gasoline · journalism · truthiness
The Rotting Away of a Hero: Andrew Revkin on Peter Gleick
March 21st, 2012 · 2 Comments
For those entranced with the written word and learning, a truly painful life event is seeing the intellectual and ethical withering of someone whose work once had great meaning and merited true respect. New York Times / Dot Earth journalist Andrew Revkin stands as one of the more important and notable environmental journalists over the past several decades. Revkin’s books […]
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Cherry Blossoms: Another Global Warming Canary …
March 15th, 2012 · 4 Comments
Amid all the screaming signs about Global Warming’s increasingly serious impact on the world around us and on human civilizations future prospects, the ‘luxury’ symbolic canaries in the coal mine always create mixed emotions. Global Warming’s threat to skiing (and declining viable Winter Olympics locations), and to wine making and bourbon and beer and chocolate and maple syrup and […]
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Is corrected online graphic enough? WashPost Cost-to-Buy vs Cost-to-Own fail
March 11th, 2012 · Comments Off on Is corrected online graphic enough? WashPost Cost-to-Buy vs Cost-to-Own fail
On Friday, 9 March 2012, The Washington Post front page had a prominent article laying out a case for ridiculing the Department of Energy for awarding an “affordability prize” to a $50 light bulb. The article laid out how the bulb was so expensive to purchase and discussed how that purchase price would deter people […]
Tags: Energy · energy efficiency · journalism · lighting · Washington Post
Will CBS celebrate in public or hide in shame?
February 7th, 2012 · Comments Off on Will CBS celebrate in public or hide in shame?
A question to ponder: If you received an “award” from a shoddy institution celebrating some of your weakest work, would you go proudly proclaim the stained medallion or would you bury the award in a closet hoping to never hear about it again? CBS faces such a conundrum … As per Media Matters reporting, a […]
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The Murdoch energy lie that went around the world
January 30th, 2012 · 1 Comment
This guest post from Barath enriches the GESN conversation begun with CNN’s celebratory misinformation about America’s energy situation. [Update: See, more recently (18 March 2012), Zakaria error tweets its way around the world … ] …while the truth is putting on its shoes. The Wall Street Journal reported some exciting news not that long ago—you might […]
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