Category Archives: media

Forecastthefacts.org – Political Activists Gagging Our TV Meteorologists on Climate Issues

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

UPDATE: 1/23/12 11AMPST Exposed – Forecastthefacts.org is a George Soros funded activist website. See details below. By Michael A. Lewis, PhD. and Anthony Watts Some one or some organization is attempting to influence the upcoming annual meeting of the American Meteorological … Continue reading →

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The Myth of Settled Science

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

Guest post by Donald R. Baucom A key defense of AGW and now climate change is that the science is settled.  Historically and philosophically, this statement is unsustainable.                         Who would dare assert that we know all there is to … Continue reading →

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Phobos-Grunt demise shows BBC’s (and Daily Mail’s) bad science tendency

Posted on January 15, 2012 by

OK, The “Grunt heard round the world” is no more, apparently burning up over the Pacific. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the probe and what fragments made it through the atmosphere fell about 775 miles west of Wellington Island. In looking … Continue reading →

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Media 101 – How to jump a shark

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

UPDATE: 1/5/12 5:30AM – Due to reader pressure, the article has been changed – see below the Continue reading line. The story about the hybrid sharks being a byproduct of climate change turns out to be an act of quote … Continue reading →

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Australian hybrid fish story – Media jumps the shark

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

Pretty much everyone who has seen this today shakes their head and wonders. I’m wondering too. First, the story which is being serially regurgitated without any thought in media outlets world wide: Please  read this excepted text from the story … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media, oceans, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , , , , , | 189 Comments

Thought Provoking words for the BBC and the Guardian – from a Podcast by the BBC’s Michael Buerk

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Guest Post by Barry Woods The respected BBC journalist, Michael Buerk has a short podcast entitled Michael Buerk on the Climate Summit at a new blog that I have just come across called The Fifth Column. It has some thought-provoking and challenging concerns for … Continue reading →

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More ursus bogus – this time with fake snow on BBC’s “Frozen Planet”

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

Readers may recall using photoshopped images of polar bears on CGI ice floes. Here we go again. Via the GWPF: Frozen Planet Fakery Row: Polar Bear Filmed In Zoo Using Fake Snow Monday, 12 December 2011 17:48 Euan Stretch, Daily … Continue reading →

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The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple Betrayal (ho ho)

Posted on December 8, 2011 by

From Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.some comments on the recent scathing report on BBC’s impartiality (ho ho) when it comes to reporting climate change. He writes: Comments On The Global Warming Policy Foundation Report “The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple Betrayal” … Continue reading →

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Climategate 2 – “Impartiality” at the BBC

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

Guest post by Barry Woods It was only last weekend that the BBC’s Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin and Dr Joe Smith of the Open University made headlines in the Mail on Sunday newspaper. This was because their jointly run - Cambridge Media and … Continue reading →

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Photoshopping in the “worseness”

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

Readers may recall that we caught NOAA NCDC red handed putting in a photoshopped flooded house a couple of years back for an official government report. Image above taken directly from the CCSP report. Read more here Then there’s the … Continue reading →

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BBC’s Kirby admission to Phil Jones on “impartiality”

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

Climategate 2.0 email 4894.txt shows just what Alex Kirby of BBC thinks of climate skeptics as he conveys it to Dr. Phil Jones. Clearly, there an incestuous relationship between climate science and the BBC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ date: Wed Dec  8 08:25:30 … Continue reading →

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Help settle the Renewable Energy Debate at The Economist

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

Guest post by Robert Bradley, Master Resource I have been studying the global warming debate from a physical scientific and political economy basis for 20 years. And I remain amazed at how the energy/climate alarmists will not concede (are ‘in … Continue reading →

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Only 52 days left, get on with the dying already

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

Back in January 2007, we were admonished: “…you should remember this moment when you learned about this feedback loop-it is an existencial turning point in your life. “ Yes, I remember, only too well. In fact, here’s a reminder:

Posted in Alarmism, Climate FAIL, GLOC, media, Methane, ridiculae, satire | 116 Comments

My few minutes with Andy Rooney

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

This morning we wake up to the news that Andy Rooney has died following complications from surgery at the age of 92. Like many of you, I’m saddened to hear of this. Me, perhaps more so, because I had the … Continue reading →

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Cooling Warming by the numbers

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

I get featured in this WSJ piece from “The Numbers Guy” Carl Bialik, but there’s a curious sentence in the first paragraph. At first I thought it was an editorial device or maybe a pun. Then I saw this:

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Richard Black tells the BBC reporting team what to think

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

David Whitehouse: Biased BBC Advice Based On Sloppy Statistics. From the GWPF: The Observatory, 4 November 2011 Whatever you think about the BBC’s actual performance in reporting climate change, they are supposed to adhere to the highest standards of impartiality … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – TV news accidentally parodies the “occupiers”

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

From TVSpy: KGW, the NBC-affiliate in Portland, is under fire after accidentally airing a graphic listing numbers of “stinky people” and “angry people” at Occupy Portland. The graphic (pictured below) aired briefly, for less than a second, in the middle … Continue reading →

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The TV show where my character gets punched out by a climate scientist

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

UPDATE: The connection in Crownies to me is unmistakeable now, see update below. Stranger than fiction shades of Ben Santer: “Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. … Continue reading →

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The Telegraph finally figures out where the North Magnetic Pole is was, issues microscopically sized correction

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

WUWT readers may remember this story I wrote about the clowns from Old Pulteney’s “Row to the Pole” who had headlines blaring in Britain exclaiming they had rowed to the “north pole”. Telegraph, BBC, and Independent geography FAIL: “Row to … Continue reading →

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Even the TV news community is asking if Irene was overhyped

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

There’s a newsgroup that just about everyone who’s in the television news reads daily called “Shoptalk” which is as old as the Internet. They have a host website called TVspy. Today they asked their own readers this question: Was Hurricane … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, media | 91 Comments

Hurricane Irene TV news reports – a bridge too far?

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

I just got done watching about 30 minutes of the special “Hurricane Irene Information” Channel 259 on DirecTV where they are carrying live reports from ABC7 out of New York City. I’ve watched many TV channels tonight like it. I … Continue reading →

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Telegraph, BBC, and Independent geography FAIL: “Row to the Pole” never made it to the “North Pole” – they are 790 miles short

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

UPDATE: BBC (and now the Independent) commit the same FAIL. See below. More “Row to the Pole” nonsense writ large: Ummmm…no, Mr. Hough, the Telegraph’s headline and story are simply wrong. You are a victim of spin and/or a failed … Continue reading →

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Bastardi: Science and reality point away, not toward, CO2 as climate driver

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

Guest post by Joe Bastardi, WeatherBell With the coming Gorathon to save the planet around the corner ( Sept 14) , my  stance on the AGW issue has been drawing more ire from those seeking to silence people like me … Continue reading →

Posted in media, Opinion | 387 Comments

The BBC Endeavours to Provide More Biased Coverage on Climate Change

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has released a report on its coverage of climate change, that is based partly on “an independent review” by Steve Jones, a Genetics Professor at University College London … Continue reading →

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Chris Mooney doesn’t understand the Internet, and neither do some researchers

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

I had to laugh. Over at Discover Magazine Intersection Blog, Chris Mooney is defending the paper I critiqued a couple of days ago as if it contains some actual solid science. He’s griping that I didn’t read the full paper … Continue reading →

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