Let’s see how many errors we can count. I’m guessing (based on past performance) we’ll see between 5 and 10 major errors. Maybe even a rehash of polar bears.
from Time.com
Tom Brokaw’s New Global Warming Documentary
For someone who supposedly “retired” in 2004, Tom Brokaw has kept plenty busy. He filled in as moderator of Meet the Press after the death of Tim Russert, pitched in on campaign coverage for NBC and completed a documentary on global warming in 2006. Covering the environment isn’t a fad for Brokaw — the South Dakota native is a longtime outdoorsman, often fly-fishing near his home in Montana and hiking with green friends like Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard. The former NBC Nightly News anchor just finished a new climate change documentary — Global Warming: The New Challenge with Tom Brokaw — which airs on the Discovery Channel on Mar. 18. Brokaw spoke to TIME in New York shortly after his return from a biking trip to Africa. Apparently semi-retirement isn’t so bad.
Tonight March 18th 10 PM EST and 10 PM PST on the Discovery Channel.
Feel free to note any errors seen here.
For those that missed the first viewing, see the additional air times here
What I find most interesting is that when you go to the main page of discovery.com you find that the site is sponsored by an oil company – Shell.
Looks like Discovery Channel is in the pay of “Big Oil”. Gosh! I’ll await the pronunciations from the usual suspects like Joe Romm.
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“The New Challenge” Ad nauseum! Thanks for piling on Tom!
Journalists are pathetic! Where are real investigative reporters??
Thank God for the internet!
It’s interesting, despite the accusations that always fly from Gore and his minions about skeptical scientists being on the take from Big Oil, that many of the big energy companies are deeply invested in the AGW movement. I tend to assume that since many have launched alternative energy subsidiaries, they’re just angling for a better spot at the trough, when the pols dish out the subsidies.
Your only an “Oil Shill” if you are an AGW Sceptic.
When Oil Companies like Shell are funding AGW Documentaries, they are simply demonstrating “Social Responsibility”.
(No Profit motive involved – hang a sec – what’s Shells investment in Windmills???)
I’ve never been an admirer of Tom Brokaw. But, just what were his errors that you mention?
REPLY: Watch the special and count them.
I am sure it will be the usual Discover BS. The last time end of days was shown I forced my self to watch to see the credits. ABC news produced it.
This time, I intend to make sure who ever advertises the show will regret it. The last two weeks the Fox Series “24” placed an AGE pitch by the actors. Ford was advertising, planning to buy a new truck, will not be Ford.
Boycott anyone who advertises this [snip]
I’d just like to throw this thought out there. When do BIG oil companies make record profits? When supply is restricted and prices high? Or when supply is large and prices low? So why would it be a shock to anybody that oil companies would support AGW proponents? They get profits and bonuses while acting as victims.
What amazes me most is the people who are most ardent in their cries of “Big Oil Shill!!” will be silent on this.
Much like the sentiment: It is only free speech if I agree with it.
Dave Wendt (18:18:32) :
It’s interesting, despite the accusations that always fly from Gore and his minions about skeptical scientists being on the take from Big Oil, that many of the big energy companies are deeply invested in the AGW movement. I tend to assume that since many have launched alternative energy subsidiaries, they’re just angling for a better spot at the trough, when the pols dish out the subsidies.
That’s part of it, but my belief is that the oil companies love the AGW movement mainly because it will lead to higher oil prices by placing artificial restrictions on oil without an economically viable (so far) alternative. This is especially true if you believe that we have reached “peak oil.” If oil reserves are truly dwindling, what could be better for oil companies than government policies that result in less of it being sold but at a much higher price?
I think I see what Shell is doing.
Nietzsche wrote: ” The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
So, the Discovery channel and Brokaw really are Big Oil Shills, because they defend the AGW alarmist cause with deliberately faulty arguments.
And It really is a Big Oil Plot after all. Perhaps I am ready to post on RealClimate. 🙂
I will be wacthing this…as long as I can take it, just for the opportunity to send Discovery Channel feedback :
http://extweb.discovery.com/viewerrelations
I don’t hold out any hope of a rationale discussion or revelations of any relevance other than the continuing cacophany of voices I’ve already heard.
Just another unbiased member of the MSM that is an expert on AGW.
And the Discover boycott winner is:
Knowing, the movie.
Pay back Hollywood for suffering the “inconvenient Truth”
It is past the time to argue, it is going to take action to put a stop to this nonsense. Sinking a movie might get someone’s attention.
As for myself, not a chance I will watch it, no matter how good it might be…
Out here in Cow Flat (ulence) we don’t get no Discovery Channel. All our hand-crank TV gets is Beverly Hillbillies reruns and infomercials about Sham-wow.
tough call, new South Part or AGW…
I do not work for or with an oil company. BUT, I would certainly trust their scientists before I would trust a government or academic scientist that counts on global warming for research funding. Industry is looking for the correct answers so they will be in the correct business 30 years from now.
I expect that in 30 years it will be Exxon Solar or Exxon Wind, they are investing in these technologies now.
South Park.
It will be more accurate.
GE is heavily invested in alt energy schemes that REQUIRE HEAVY government funding. So is Duke Power. Like Enercon before them – who “invented” the cap and trade and global limit schemes in the late 1990’s, then peddled them to Clinton and Gore.
(Want to find out where the administration is going in energy and power? Find out where – and when! – HIllary is investing in who. HER money is the inside track, and she WILL make money off of up and downturns.)
Self interest. (Like the Texas oilman who (coincidently has major gas holdings) who ran a series of advertisements last year promoting wind power (and natural gas turbines to span the gap between “today’s energy” and the upcoming energy.
I’m glad I’m not the only person who has noticed how much the entire fossil fuel industry stands to gain from the AGW hysteria. It will be difficult for the average person to sort how much of the increased price is due to carbon taxes, artificially induced scarcity, or outright price gouging, so profit margins are going to soar while Uncle Sam bears all the blame from the public.
LMAO, you guys are hysterical so far!!!!
the big oil co. don’t care if they sell oil or wind or cow farts!
control is the word, that is it.
move along nothing to see here!
Planet Perspective is lacking. So Depressing!
It’s so sad, I used to feed birds and was an avid birder, now I never put food out as I know it is truly destructive to them because of cats and diseases. Meanwhile we spend more as a nation on wild birdseed than we do on foreign food aid for starving humans.. I turn my eyes away and let the birds live in secret, lest my observations destroy them.
I used to watch all the wonderful nature shows on TV, National Geographic and the Weather Channel, now I can’t tolerate the constant propaganda.
The word “PLANET” is spoken and I turn it off, wanting to just puke. So now I watch politics and history.
I lived in Alaska and wandered far on foot and skis. I walked on the ice of the Bering Sea in Nome, 1968 and collected a little bottle of melted sea ice. I flew over the vast expanses, I climbed the mountains. Alaska almost killed me in 1971, skiing in July. Alaska almost killed me several times. Western Colorado has almost killed us too, ice and snow and getting
The earth is so much bigger and so much more powerful than people stuck in cities have ever imagined.
I’m depressed about the press, but guess what, we have a BABY BOOM!
HOPE and CHANGE! When people start to get back to core values, they have BABIES!
get the program name and URL correct – going with South Park until the half hour – should still get at least 3 major factual errors in the last 30 min
WakeUpMaggy (21:05:11) :
“The earth is so much bigger and so much more powerful than people stuck in cities have ever imagined. ”
Very wise statement, indeed.
The financial backing seems surprising — I would have thought the invisible hand of Soros at work here.
Along with several others above, I think I’ll pass on watching another visual screed. Same old tripe turns my stomach.
Wakeupmaggy…Thanks for an interesting post. But…the good news regarding the current baby boom turns to bad news as we realize that 40% are born to unwed mothers. Most of these stories end badly.
“At least the war on the economy is going well”.
OK – 2 errors last 30
Wind Power as cheap as coal? say what? OK I’ll be willing to concede that a properly sized and positioned wind mill over its life might approach the pure electron flow cost of coal but unless you have a battery, inverter and alternator technology that is much better that currently available technology that I’m aware of that is off be at least two orders of magnitude and when you subtract subsidies and the fickleness of wind you can add at least two more orders, nice try, next
Geysers (CA) can power SF? not sure about that but they have a poor record of actually delivering and – oh, power gird?
did admit corn alcohol was a “oops”
ok I’m stretching here, but the whole concept of “green” that can shamelessly dictate your waste disposal (from bodily – 1.5lf toilets that take how many flushes? to mandatory compost to recycle to) how you carry your groceries home and how you get there – is only a short step to dictate hi density housing along mass transit, *energy efficiency” “Green Space” then it only a small step to say “you don’t need wasteful individual bathrooms” and of course cooking (let alone gathering and preparing your own food or drink) can be justified by, we’re all over weight and don’t eat properly as well as energy conservation
ah, time to take the tin foil had off and call it a day