Media Still Ignoring Facts on Climate Change

Media still ignoring facts re: climate change [Excerpts]

According to a report from the Business and Media Institute, the big three broadcast networks  --ABC, NBC, CBS -- have run 92 stories this year alone promoting the hazards and fears of climate change. And as Julia Seymour, assistant editor of the Institute [states] those stories have a lot in common.

"Not a single one of them mentioned that in recent years, global warming has actually slowed down," she reports. "It's puzzling climate scientists. [We] also found that they rely heavily on experts promoting alarmism and barely talked to challenging experts or their studies, and they continue to try to link weather to climate."

President Obama put the global warming debate back into the news with a speech he gave on the matter during a recent trip to Germany. But Seymour points out that stories on the subject have failed to mention scientific studies or experts supporting trends that the earth is actually cooling. Instead, she points out the networks spin the information toward climate change alarmism by more than an 8-to-1 margin.

Although many scientists maintain that climate change has no correlation to weather events, the networks link weather events like tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves and more to climate change nearly 25 percent of the time.

"The networks have shown themselves to be completely imbalanced and unwilling to challenge the global warming agenda," Seymour [said.] "And one of the ways that they've done that is by completely ignoring the slowdown in global warming over the last ten or fifteen years."

Meanwhile, Seymour's research shows that foreign media outlets like the BBC have included the declining trends in climate change in their reporting.

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[TBC: "Climate change” is increasingly heard more frequently than “global warming.” Nevertheless, it remains clearly anchored in religion. As Dave wrote in July 1997, “Surprisingly, the ecological movement has become more religion than science. Thomas Berry of Fordham University calls man's ecological responsibility ‘preeminently a religious and spiritual task.’… This pagan spirituality is ideal for uniting all religions together with science into a world religion. Al Gore, a Southern Baptist, has said that ecological problems can only be solved through a "new spirituality" common to all religions and that saving the Earth "requires reuniting science and religion." Pope John Paul II enthusiastically endorsed this idolatrous partnership:

‘Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish....Such bridging ministries must be nurtured and encouraged. Nowhere is this more clear than in the current environmental crisis....It has the potential to unify and renew religious life’ ” emphasis ours.]