You may use this content (better still, argue with me!), but please cite my ideas as © 2007, Dr. Bruce Klopfenstein. Find any typos? Please let me know.
Happily, I came across a great site that's almost sure to find and publish anyone and everyone who, even if taken out of context, appears to question Global Warming and, more specifically, its cause being human activity. This great reactionary site is
http://www.businessandmedia.org/. They trumpet themselves by citing this quotation:
“Finally there is an organized effort to put an end to the embarrassing media bias against the free market – and we can thank the folks at BMI for it. From oil price reality checks to the underreported success of the most recent tax cuts, Business & Media Institute gets it done.”
– Vicki McKenna, host, “Upfront w/Vicki McKenna”
News/Talk 1310 WIBA, Madison, Wis.
WIBA-AM radio in Madison Wisconsin? Vicki McKenna is an unabashedly conservative radio talk show host, hardly a bastion of objectivity. So an obscure conservative radio talk show host is proud of businessandmedia.org. That's the best they can do? What's wrong with this picture. Would you go see a new movie based on a review from WIBA-AM in Madison? No offense to the station (I'm an old radio guy), but this is pretty sad. Nevertheless, this is a great site to monitor to see what the "potential" (I'm being generous in using that word) disinformation promoters are saying to encourage us to laugh off Global Warming, shrug our shoulders, and just accept "Climate Change" as a normal procession of "another day at the office" on Planet Earth.
This site, thankfully, points out another site, Cybercast News Service (
CNSNews.com), "an indispensable on-line source for news as it should be reported – accurate, balanced, and unfiltered." And to show just how interested businessandmedia.org really is in objective news, get this:
TimesWatch, another Web venture of the MRC [right-wing Media Research Council...but you wouldn't know it by its name, eh?], follows The New York Times and exposes inaccuracies and glaring bias in news coverage.
That's a pretty fair objective. I wish the Media Research Council would hold the Washington Times' feet to the same fire. Nevertheless, this is good news. We can see how conservatives (
not all conservatives, I'm quite sure) strive to tell us to "don't worry, be happy" when it comes to Global Warming.
So, I'll have to find a way to watch these sites and marvel at their "fair and balanced" view of the world, from the point of view of a right-wing group.
By the way, there's going to be no convincing some people, ever, that either "Climate Change" or "Global Warming" exist and that warming is accelerating faster than even the most dire predictions for it. The belief now is that our political leanings (e.g., reacting cautiously or openly to a political issue) have a genetic basis, according to a
May 2005 article in
The American Political Science Review and many other sources.
We went from relatively normal soil moisture last winter to a 100-year-drought in a matter of months thanks both to the lack of rain and to the evaporating effects of 10 or so days of sunshine and temperatures over 100. In fact, what's lost in that statement is the weeks of upper 90s F we also experienced this summer. No one seemed to notice how quickly lake levels were dropping, and many probably thought it was a temporary thing. Needless to say, we were hoping for a tropical storm or two to find their way to North Georgia to help alleviate the situation as it has in the recent past. Such was not the case this hurricane season, which technically isn't over.
