I have an acquaintance who frequently and proudly acknowledges that he relies heavily on National Public Radio for his “news” and increased political “knowledge base”. He obviously considers it to be THE resource for the truly intellectual elite. I strongly suspect that he is not alone in that assessment. How else to explain the woefully “low information vote for Obama” one finds among many affluent middle age professionals.
At any rate my friend is a “true believer” in the perils and “causes” of “climate change”. Odds are NPR has not covered any of the recent news which does not tend to validate all the scary predictions which frighten the “true believers, like this report from Investors’ Business Daily:
Three Global Warming Stories The Media Don’t Want You To See
. . . Let’s start with a new paper from NASA — a distinctly American organization — that was covered by the British Express.
The newspaper tells us that our space program has “found the Earth has cooled in areas of heavy industrialization where more trees have been lost and more fossil fuel burning takes place.” . . .
But the U.S. press couldn’t get out of bed to cover the story. As far as we can tell, the legacy media in this country ignored it entirely.
The same can be said about a study conducted by the Norwegian Polar Institute, which found “that there are probably more polar bears than the last time the bears were counted in this area in 2004, in spite of the fact that there have been many years with poor ice cover during this period.” The American press doesn’t want the public to know this because it throws into doubt the story it’s been feeding us since the 1980s. . . .
Finally, in an effort to deliver a public service that the mainstream media refuse to provide, we point out that the temperature data that supposedly show warming have been corrupted by poor positioning.
“The majority of weather stations used by (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) to detect climate change temperature signal have been compromised by encroachment of artificial surfaces like concrete, asphalt and heat sources like air conditioner exhausts,” says Anthony Watts, a former meteorologist who is the lead author of a study of temperature station locations. . . .
All three of these are significant stories. But instead of doing its due journalistic diligence, the press would rather muse about the role climate change might be playing in the warm Christmas weather in the Eastern part of the country.
It’s all part of the liberal narrative. Science that doesn’t agree with the media’s agenda is treated as if it’s myth.
IBD has more to say and document the points made. Read the entire article here.
DLH
