The bottom falls out of major US newspaper coverage of climate

Is this the media pause before coverage starts to switch the other way?

When the snows of winter begin falling in mid-October, sunspot numbers continue to decline, arctic ice zooms to early records, and we still haven’t had a hurricane, will the media begin to realize something is not quite right with their favorite meme? Will Al Gore’s head finally explode? Will some of the lead AGW “scientists” have to be put on suicide watch?

This is intentionally misleading, studies have proven (with 97% certainty) that newspaper coverage of climate issues is still at record levels, it’s just hiding in the deep oceans for now.

Where are the missing articles? In the deep ocean.
Reporters absorb propaganda from the warmunist scientists radiating it, and re-emit it as global warming articles. But deep oceans can mask global warming news articles for decade-long periods. The pause must be due to hidden news articles in the deep ocean, with deeper layers absorbing a disproportionate amount of BS due to changes in oceanic circulation.
The news coverage of global warming has not disappeared, and so it cannot be ignored. It must have consequences.

Unfortunately, The Weather Channel is still pushing the hoax.

When the new IPCC report comes out it will climb quite a bit but will fall back shortly thereafter. How’s that for SWAG?

Looks like we’ve peaked!
http://endingactivism.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/issueattentioncycle.png
The Issue Attention Cycle
http://cstpr.colorado.edu/students/envs_5720/downs_1972.pdf

Soon they will be headlining that a new ice age is coming and we’ll all doomed.

It doesn’t matter, they have won. They are about to start teaching man made climate change and social justice across the country with Common Core.

@catcracking: You do know that Al Gore sold his struggling cable network to Al Jazeera, correct?
“Honest to goodness news.” Yeah boy, the old country boy always has a surprise up his sleeve!
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/al-gore-al-jazeera-honest-goodness-news

“The bottom falls out of major US newspaper coverage of climate”.
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Not in Chicago:
http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/22048060-474/global-warming-is-real-and-its-our-fault-lets-fix-it.html
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http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/letters/22073575-474/carbon-tax-is-important-first-step-in-addressing-global-warming.html
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/22211449-452/chicago-should-lead-the-way-in-slowing-global-warming.html
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http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/splash/21934583-418/todd-ricketts-bikes-can-help-solve-some-of-the-worlds-problems.html
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Sorry mods,
those were all from August 2013 after a quick search of the major newspaper.
There were more, I read it everyday.
They just can’t stop themselves ?

There are still groups of people where they believe in CAGW and are unaware of the scientific data that might contradict some of their deeply held beliefs. Living in the US Pacific Northwest where it is obvious to most casual observer that El Nino-La Nina cycles drive our weather, most progressives are unaware of data contrary to their deeply held beliefs.

How could a MSM global warming PR campaign succeed if two of its major architects were Mann and Hansen? It couldn’t.
They were inadequate to the task of being competent with the climate science to begin with, the PR was more of the same incompetence extended to the MSM realm.
John

I suspect AR5 will be the first IPCC production where the sceptic/realist perspective will have a hearing in the MSM. For AR4 there were no “go to” sceptics, now there are. Never under estimate just how lazy journalists actually are.
Plus, even some name brand climate scientists, Judy Curry for one, are not likely to sing from the hymn book.
And, delightfully, as the sensitivity papers, the cosmic cloud connection and such like keep right on coming, the report will be stillborn because its “science” will be outdated.
[All of which explains why the odious Kevin “the heat is in the deep, deep, deep” Trebleth is reported as suggesting that the IPCC’s AR process is probably not worth keeping.

Their only readers are each other. It is a contest of which can produce the most sensational grade school drama. Other issues are actually affecting the sheeple to a higher degree (pun) than climate stories. No big weather drama this summer and winter is coming… 🙂 We watch the super bowl during a blizzard is the big betting.

Odd I thought it was the other way around.

Actually I think we are looking at something quite dangerous based on past experience.
The sheeple were allowed to ‘voice’ their opinions (as long as it agreed with the main goal) and now the USA is moving to the next stage, implementation of the agreed on ‘Consensus’. Once a decision is made in the back rooms of power we get the shaft whether or not we agree, complain or scream bloody murder. The news media was bought up in 1917 link so we never actually know what the real opinions of our fellow sheep are, only what the MSM TELLS us they are.
The real question is if the power-brokers are comfortable enough with their consolidation of power in China, India, Russia, Brazil, and South America (the BRICS countries) to be willing to finish killing off their base of power in the EU, USA, Australia and the rest of the west.
Our real hope was the resentment of the Cyprus Haircut and the response from BRICS.

BRICS: The World’s New Bankers?
Authored by Rajeev Sharma via The Diplomat
The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) bloc has begun planning its own development bank and a new bailout fund which would be created by pooling together an estimated $240 billion in foreign exchange reserves, according to diplomatic sources. To get a sense of how significant the proposed fund would be, the fund would be larger than the combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of about 150 countries, according to Russia and India Report.
Many believe the BRICS countries are interested in creating these institutions because they are increasingly dissatisfied by Western dominated institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)….

As usual you need to Follow the Money.

I have just found out how to delete the Weather Channel app!

This is the sort of media climate reporting data that spells very bad news for all those scientists, both pseudo and real who have jumped aboard the climate catastrophe / global warming / climate change,/ extreme weather tax payer funded gravy train and who have used the climate catastrophe meme as a personal promotion vehicle.
As the politicals in a democracy ultimately follow the dictates of their public, they also will start to run out of publicly acceptable excuses to keep on lavishly funding a dying ideology which their voters have lost interest in.
Voters, who as they become ever more aware of the real facts behind the ever changing natural climate, are viewing with rising contempt, the climate alarmist scientists and advocates involved, The lies, the deliberate data corruption, the highly selective use of data to bolster their claims and the deliberate distortions created by those same alarmist scientists and climate alarmism advocates to try and bolster their personally held ideology and to access the lavish tax payer funded grants handed out by governments driven by the fear of catastrophic climate changes, fears deliberately created by those same climate warming catastrophe scientists and alarmism advocates.
For all those climate alarmists advocates and scientists, you now have in your personal data files, a record of politically supporting and promoting a grossly misleading and increasingly corrupt climate alarmist science campaign which attempted to force the public across the world to conform with your own personal beliefs and ideology regardless of the deeply distressing and for some deadly personal costs as well as the horrendous social and financial costs that you created in promoting and advocating your own personal climate catastrophe ideology.
When it comes to your future as scientists it may be that you will find yourselves sweeping streets for a living as your record follows you for the rest of not only your professional life but also your personal life.
And that would be a fitting and just finale for your careers as scientists and those of your personal climate alarmism advocacy who quite deliberately set out to create so much despair and fear in hundreds of millions of ordinary people based on nothing more than the totally unproven outputs of some very dodgy and increasingly disreputable climate models.
Of course in this life where deserved moral justice is avoided by so many. those so called climate catastrophe promoting scientists, many of whom seemed to have the most minimal ethical and moral standards will, as is usual with those types, just try to lie and filibuster themselves out of their nefarious record and insert themselves into some other equally nefarious and corrupt so called scientific pursuit where there will be another great haul of tax payer largesse to be conned out of the politicians if they can be thoroughly frightened again by further claims of catastrophic occurrences “unless you do something in concordance with our advice” .
The climate scientists are after all just ordinary humans who are definitely no better, no smarter, just as good or just as bad, just as morally and ethically corrupt or just as ethical and moral as any other professional sector of our society.
So ,they deserve no more and no less than that applied to anybody and everybody else in any other proffession, be it lawyers, doctors, engineers, bureaucrats and etc and etc in our society for their misdeeds, deliberate and otherwise and for the often deliberately misleading and false claims and corruption while indulging in their publicly funded scientific profession and acting in their professional scientific capacity.
And that, considering the truly immense personal and social costs for society that the climate alarmist scientists created with their corrupted climate model created alarmism, would merely be the application of equality of justice for all,

Mark and two Cats says:
September 4, 2013 at 2:15 pm
Where are the missing articles? In the deep ocean.
And the super models confirm it.

“Soon they will be headlining that a new ice age is coming and we’ll all doomed.”

The problem is that there isn’t any climate news to publish that fits the narative right now.

How the heck do you pay hockey with a stick like that?
Mann, that just sucks.

If you look closely it looks like a horse-hockey stick.

Bruce Cobb says:
September 4, 2013 at 3:03 pm
What we have here, is a failure to communicate climate change
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There’s truth in what you say.
We are failing to inform the public.
What we need are some Greenpeace types to hang from a windmill with a banner.
“It’s the SUN stupid
No warming for 15 years”
cn

Notice, LA Times and WaPo – maybe the lie really does carry its own destruction in it – LA Times and WaPo have not survived their incessant lying intact; WaPo already needed cash infusions by the Ford foundation and now socialist crony billionaire Bezos; LA Times seeks a new sugardaddy.
Similarly in Germany Der Spiegel is in a leadership crisis, dropping sales and internal strife; the leftist Frankfurter Rundschau has already died and needed to be reanimated by another puppetmaster.
I’m confident though that all organs of the Western Pravda will at least survive in name; it is not too expensive for the Keynesians to make it seem like they still exist. If all else fails funnel over some taxpayer dough as to the green NGO’s.
But if the lie is really that destructive, maybe it will then kill the puppetmasters themselves. Memetic contagion.

One of the famous German cartoons of 1990 (it came out in January) shows Karl Marx, trying to look nonplussed, hands buried in his pockets, muttering “Sorry, guys, it was just a dumb idea of mine…”
http://stscherer.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/marx-pdf-1-seite.jpg
Seems like it’s time to replace Big Karl with Big Al.
Josh?

ROM says: @ September 4, 2013 at 4:37 pm
…. As the politicals in a democracy ultimately follow the dictates of their public, they also will start to run out of publicly acceptable excuses to keep on lavishly funding a dying ideology which their voters have lost interest in….
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I am afraid you have it completely backwards. As I just said the deals are made in the back rooms and then the Media, Academia and Politicians are given their marching orders. The public has ZERO to do with it.
Here is the well researched example that woke me up. It shows many many parallels to the CAGW/sustainability push and can be considered a template on how our ‘Political System’ actually works. Notice it took sixty years to complete the implementation of the plan once it was concieved. The goal is the complete capture of the World’s food production. With the US Food Safety Modernization Act and similar legislation world wide, the last piece was put in place, the capture of US food production. Family farmers in the USA do not know it yet but they are already a extinct species. The USDA/FDA just haven’t shot them yet.
A SWAT team broke through the gates of a small Arlington, Texas farm and led a massive 10-hour search of the property. The residents were handcuffed and held at gunpoint while they watched more than 10 tons of their property hauled off in trucks. What dangerous contraband required this massive governmental response? It wasn’t illegal explosives, stolen vehicles or drugs, but rather organic blackberry bushes, okra plants, and sunflowers….

History, HACCP and the Food Safety Con Job
The American public has a great and unmet need to understand the true impacts (that is, the predictable consequences) of the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 before the Senates passes its version of this dangerous bill…. [It passed]
Using the pretext of food safety, those behind the Food Safety Enhancement Act seek to institute changes the American public would not condone if it understood what is at stake. The country is being duped into believing that the pseudo-scientific measures prescribed by the bill will prevent new outbreaks of food-borne illnesses when in reality FSEA will usher in a number of undesirable outcomes, none of which do a thing to improve food safety. On the contrary, these measures will permit large processors to become an essentially unregulated segment of the industry by privatizing the inspection process, and — at the same time — the new regulations will constitute a cost-prohibitive barrier for small players to remain in business, making them easy targets for indiscriminant enforcement and greater market consolidation….
Before we examine how FSEA will impact our food supply, it would be helpful to understand more about some highly relevant though little known history of American agriculture and its industrialization.….
This transformation was the result of organized plans developed by a group of highly powerful — though unelected — financial and industrial executives who wanted to drastically change agricultural practices in the US to better serve their collective corporate financial agenda. This group, called the Committee for Economic Development, was officially established in 1942 …..
Composed of chief executive officers and chairmen from the federal reserve, the banking industry, private equity firms, insurance companies, .. — representatives from every sector of the economy with the key exception of farmers themselves — CED determined that the problem with American agriculture was that there were too many farmers. But the CED had a “solution”: millions of farmers would just have to be eliminated.
In a number of reports written over a few decades, CED recommended that farming “resources” — that is, farmers — be reduced. In its 1945 report “Agriculture in an Expanding Economy,” CED complained that “the excess of human resources engaged in agriculture is probably the most important single factor in the “farm problem'” and describes how agricultural production can be better organized to fit to business needs.[2] A report published in 1962 entitled “An Adaptive Program for Agriculture”[3] is even more blunt in its objectives, leading Time Magazine to remark that CED had a plan for fixing the identified problem: “The essential fact to be faced, argues CED, is that with present high levels farm productivity, more labor is involved in agriculture production that the market demands — in short, there are too may farmers. To solve that problem, CED offers a program with three main prongs.”[4]
Some of the report’s authors would go on to work in government to implement CED’s policy recommendations. Over the next five years, the political and economic establishment ensured the reduction of “excess human resources engaged in agriculture” by two million, or by 1/3 of their previous number.
Their plan was so effective and so faithfully executed by its operatives in the US government that by 1974 the CED couldn’t help but congratulate itself in another agricultural report called “A New US Farm Policy for Changing World Food Needs” for the efficiency of the tactics they employed to drive farmers from their land.[5]
The human cost of CED’s plans were exacting and enormous.
CED’s plans resulted in widespread social upheaval throughout rural America, ripping apart the fabric of its society destroying its local economies. They also resulted in a massive migration to larger cities…. and many farmers’ lives ended in suicide [6]…
CED members were influential in business, government, and agricultural colleges, and their outlook shaped both governmental policies and what farmers were taught. Farmers found themselves encouraged to give up on a farming system that employed minimal outsourced inputs and capital and get “efficient” by adopting instead a system that required they go into debt in order to purchase ever more costly inputs, … With this consolidation of grain handlers, railways, food processing,… more and more of the food dollar went to processors and retailers, which gained increased market power.
Farmers, meanwhile, were and continue to be squeezed on both ends:…. This analysis is confirmed by the Keystone Center, an establishment think tank with representatives on its board from Monsanto, DuPont, Shell, Coca-Cola, Dow, General Electric and the Rockefeller Foundation….
the Keystone report states that “Agricultural research programs have supported farm consolidation by focusing on substituting capital for labor, rather than developing knowledge and production systems that enable operators of modest-sized farms to enhance their incomes by using management and skills to minimize capital expenditures.” [9] It was no accident that research programs at agricultural colleges favored one group at the expense of another.….. “Hundreds of millions of public dollars have been invested in research to improve the efficiency of capital-intensive systems, while virtually nothing has been invested in low-cost systems. If this research imbalance were to be addressed, management-intensive systems might in many cases exceed the efficiency of capital-intensive systems. That would improve the competitiveness and income of moderately scaled, owner-operated farms, and counter the trend toward concentration. But this and other research approaches currently get relatively little attention in publicly funded research programs. Changing the research focus is a prerequisite to revitalizing small and medium-sized farms.”[10]…..
The current level of economic concentration we see today is the result of careful strategic planning. If actions are not taken to support a less-capital intensive methods a handful of global transnational corporations control will soon control the entire food supply. Farmers and livestock producers alike have been intentionally rendered price takers, while vested interests unfairly externalize environmental and production costs, capturing profits through monopolistic activities that should be halted through anti-trust enforcement by the US Department of Justice….

Notice the sentences. “The human cost of CED’s plans were exacting and enormous. CED’s plans resulted in widespread social upheaval throughout rural America, ripping apart the fabric of its society destroying its local economies.”
These people do not give a (self-snip) about the people they destroy so do not expect them to give a flip about the opinions of the public. They have come up with a new method of dealing with the public opinion and rebelling young teenagers Activists. It is the controlled opposition called NGOs (Non-Government Organizations)
NGOs are thought to be the brainchild of Maurice Strong. As with Professional Societies they are controlled via funding and not through the voting of the membership. This effectively short-circuits any organized public outcry. If an actual grassroots organization does manage to spring up they move in and take it over.
For an example take Greenpeace who Maurice Strong invited to the UN’s First Earth Summit in 1972.

Greenpeace co-founder and former leader Dr. Patrick Moore spoke out against attempts by activist environmental groups to politicize the green building agenda.
Addressing members of the National Association of Home Builders at their recent National Green Building Conference in New Orleans, Moore said, “Greenpeace is using the US Green Building Council’s LEED green building standard as a Trojan horse to deliver an activist agenda that is not in line with science or sustainability.”
“Ironically, many of the positions that Greenpeace and other activist organizations advocate run contrary to a sound green building approach and will likely do more harm than good,” said Moore… “Greenpeace is opposed to the use of hydro power, nuclear energy, widely accepted sustainable forestry standards and vinyl products, to name but a few of the things they are opposed to,” …“How ironic since nuclear and hydro are among the most sustainable of energy sources while wood and vinyl are among the most sustainable of building materials,”…. link

That Idiot Driver says: @ September 4, 2013 at 6:09 pm
OK: Here’s the official prophecy…
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Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) beat you to it:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
“The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.” [HMMmmm Department of Homeland Security anyone?]
“Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”
Oh, did that man have a way with words.

Here is the problem with that stat: Major media has a strategy of simply going silent when the news does not support their editorial policy. This is true not simply of climate. Silencing counter or contrary views is the reason why climate is not being spoken of. The media outlets have no interest in covering the pause, soot, cosmic rays, low sensitivity. That news would moderate people’s impression of AGW.

Gail Combs says:
September 5, 2013 at 12:59 am
ROM says: @ September 4, 2013 at 4:37 pm
…. As the politicals in a democracy ultimately follow the dictates of their public, they also will start to run out of publicly acceptable excuses to keep on lavishly funding a dying ideology which their voters have lost interest in….
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I am afraid you have it completely backwards. As I just said the deals are made in the back rooms and then the Media, Academia and Politicians are given their marching orders. The public has ZERO to do with it.
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Gail
.I’m an optimist when it comes to our race and species but you have to take the very long term view..
Every sentient species including Homo Sapiens has a hierarchal structure within it’s group or for mankind, within our family, our social contacts, the politics and our culture and our society.
Consequently there is always an undercurrent of attempts at dominance right down the hierarchal structure of the group be it a tribe of humans,an animal herd or pack or whatever, over others in the same groupings.
The power seeking often leads to conflict within the group as the success of one group over another or over other groups within the major group will generally lead to some reaction, often a strong to severe reaction as the displaced and formerly dominant elements try to re-establish their dominance of the group.
But any power structure dominated by individuals and groups within the main group is always unstable over time and the dominant ones are just as likely to be kicked out of their status enhanced position by an upstart or by of the lower ranking elements combining to challenge and displace the dominate ones and install another of their choosing or who is acceptable to the main group…
So the groupings that are attempting domination and the grasping of power which you are concerned about, generally have a relatively short life time in power.
When they no longer have the strength to beat challengers or the respect of the whole group they will be displaced from their dominant position.
And that particular meme reigns right across the animal kingdom as well as all of the the race of man.
This is the basis of the group power structure of every sentient species, a temporary dominating position of unknown length and level of dominance by a group or an individual who can never gain and hold power alone without a deal of support from a subservient cabal of followers and who will sooner or later will be displaced by another domination contending group.
Despite the Luddism of so many domination attempting groups and the fact that change of anything but a minor consequence usually spells a serious challenge to the power of the dominant group so any attempts to create changes, even minor ones, must suppressed often with the maximum of often less than subtle ferocity,
Despite all this two steps forward, one and half steps back, the human species has for over two million years slowly climbed and is still climbing the long ladder of civilisation today..
If we are only prepared to look at our own life span with a bit thrown in from our immediate ancestors then the situation re power and dominance by specific groupings looks pretty nasty.
If we take the the very long term centuries and the millennium length view then rejoice in how our species has created a world that fills it’s needs so well and will continue to do even better in the future despite the Luddism and the evils perpetrated on their fellow man so many times, so often, over all those past millennium by those seeking to dominate our groups, our tribes, our nations and our species to satisfy their own lusts and domination psychology.
I guess after some 75 years on this planet. I’m an optimist as despite what seems to be so much evil in the world today, as it has always been throughout my lifetime and for the uncountable number of past millenniums, life for most of the 7 billions now on this planet is for some infinitely better than mankind has ever seen ever.
And for most of those seven billions a vastly improved and still improving life with the probability of an even better life ahead for most of them.
There’s a lot to be said for a lifetime of only three score years and ten.
It cleans out the old dead wood and the rigidity and evils they perpetrated and allows a new start by the next generation on that long climb up the ladder of civilisation..
And who was it said, “Science advances one funeral at a time”.
A pretty good metaphor as well for the leadership and the dominating groups and personalities of any era and those in our society and culture who, as always, are trying to usurp power and domination over all of mankind for their own nefarious ends.
Once the flesh has rotted there are few indeed in the race of man’s past who have left their clear imprint on our race.
Of the uncountable others and the groupings they used or were part of in their attempts to gain power and domination, they are long gone and nearly all forgotten as their bones lay in the bottom of the dustbin of history.
So it will be with those present and those into the future who harbor dreams of their own domination of mankind.
And we, Homo sapiens, the race of “Man”, will just keep right on going into that unknown and unpredictable far future regardless.

Sad to say, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences are still pushing the CAGW story. Church funds still go to support the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, which seeks to make parishes greener, reduce Catholic university investment in fossil fuel industry, etc.
They have somehow convinced themselves that higher food and energy costs will benefit the poor. Ironically, the Catholic Church is becoming a majority Third World organization (in membership), ruled by a Western Elite hierarchy.
“They know not what they do.”

Just Steve says:
September 4, 2013 at 2:50 pm
@Rhoda R
The Weather Channel and National Geographic.
Add nearly half of all Public Broadcast Systems presentations to that list!

After Obama became president, the journalists had new stuff to lie about. Currently they have more to lie about than they actually can lie, which is a lot. So necessarily, CO2AGW fell by the wayside.
There’s a business opportunity! The lying capacity of the Western ultrastates is saturated! Demand for lies exceeds supply! We see in the case of John Cook and Nuccitelly that even amateurish liars fetch top funding, jobs and titles in this amazing market environment.
Seriously. There is an upper limit for the lies that can pass through the channel at any given time.

Gail Combs,
If there is a mile of ice on top of the Weather Channel offices, we are all in a world of hurt.

This supposed “pause” in climate media stories is not long enough to be statistically significant. Besides, the extra stories are hiding at the bottom of the ocean, from whence they shall soon rise and lay waste to the globe.

Cynical Scientst says:
“Is this the media pause before coverage starts to switch the other way?”
LOL I can’t stop laughing.
I guess we can dream that our media isn’t out for the all mighty buck and trying to report the news.