From Fox News:
Sean Hannity will have a special report:
Controlling your carbon footprint has become a global fad, but is it all just a con job? And how much green is it costing you? Sean investigates the truth behind the billion dollar industry!
9PM Eastern, 6PM Pacific, repeated 3 hours later on the same channel.
Channel 360 on DirecTV, 205 on Dish Network, check your local cable and satellite listings.
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I was surprised reading through the comments on this topic. It almost seems that some people had made up their minds about this program before it even aired. I watched the show, and will probably watch it again in 3 hours when it re-airs. I suggest you do the same (or catch the web version) before you begin making decisions. I thought Hannity did a credible job of a difficult task. From my perspective this is a very complex topic and I would be challenged to fully express all that has happened in a single one-hour program. Take the plunge and actually listen to what he has to say, or perhaps refrain from comment. I thought skeptics were all about avoiding attacks based simply on a person’s name or social rank.
Well, Fox News certainly lined up a number of heavy hitters from the skeptics side. Almost looked like the NIPCC Convention. However, the program was designed for general public consumption, not for knowledgeable skeptics. The concluding note from Hannity though sounded like there may be another such program in the future.
A well done piece. I liked CCX segment.
I especially liked how he let you know, right at the beginning, that his motivation was entirely partisan and political by linking environmentalists to Stalin.
It’s a shame that this post started off with a “whack job” statement about Hannity. That person harmed us all by directing us off our message and encouraging comments about this misleading statement , likely by a troll.
This post is not about Hannity, its about his message. He had the right message and we need more people to get it out of the blogosphere. He’s mainline and we need to respect that and thank him for his effort.
I liked his script and his interviews. He got the message right and we need more of this reporting.
However, I do take umbrage at his videos of spewing smokestacks. That problem has been cured in the US by criteria pollutant and air toxic rules that have nothing to do with CO2. That part of his visual presentation makes it harder for us as a whole to advance the thought that we are over-reaching. The criteria pollutant and air toxic problems are addressed under other programs.
Lets get rid of the offending green and red and other historical, but not currrent air emissions.
And let’s stop criticizing Hannity. He did very good job putting this together.
This effort should be widely applauded.
Hannity gives me a migraine after listening to him for about 5 minutes, but I struggled through the show best I could. I usually change the channel when he comes on. It’s good to see though, the information is being broadcast on the MSM.
My work with getting involved in science blogs, but not with WUWT, is pretty much done now that my major gaol was achieved. Killing Cap-And-Trade. I read a post on Climate Depot that mentions WUWT. Climate Depot and WUWT cost a lot of people $1 Trillion in the carbon market. Makes me feel proud.
“The Great Collapse of the Chicago Climate Exchange
By 21st Century Wire
By Patrick Henningsen
Editor
21st Century Wire
Plagued by a free fall in carbon emissions prices and the perennial failure of Washington to pass any binding Cap and Trade Bill, it seems that the Chicago Climate Exchange is on its last leg, announcing that it will be scaling back its operations.
Chicago Climate Exchange or CCX, is North America’s sole voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas trading and carbon “offset” projects in North America and Brazil. Rueters reported on Aug 11th that Intercontinental Exchange Inc, the operating body for the CCX, will be scaling back major operations this month, a move that includes massive layoffs. This is likely due to the complete market free-fall of their only product… carbon emissions.”
http://21stcenturywire.com/2010/08/27/the-great-collapse-of-the-chicago-climate-exchange/
I won’t believe that the CCX is on its last legs until Jan 2011. Remember, Congress will have two months during which they can do anything. The non-returning incombents have no check on their behavior.
Dave L says:
August 27, 2010 at 7:29 pm
This was not the first special Sean has had on Climate Change issues. He also has had fairly regular segments on his show related to the topic. You are correct. Tonight will not be the last night he has a special on it.
The fallacy of wind power and solar needs it’s own show…
Good work from Hannity, congratulations!
With his top ratings for the 9 PM EST time slot he reached a lot of people.
Fox News is, I think, the only big TV network that has a consistent anti-CAGW view.
Also, they have a consistent anti-Chavez position. 😉
Rhoda R says:
August 27, 2010 at 8:18 pm
“Remember, Congress will have two months during which they can do anything. The non-returning incombents have no check on their behavior.”
Take heart Rhoda, we still have the “Iceman”.
If they pull anything, they’ll be before his committee, under oath.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41506.html
Just watched it online here in Oz… was it two 7 minute segments? It felt like a trailer for a really impressive doco!
Having said that, very interesting. “Follow the money” as always such good advice.
I saw the whole show an hour ago. I didn’t notice any errors or any goofiness (i.e., claims that it is impossible for humans to alter the climate). Yes, there was some partisanship, but less than I would have expected. I have actually lived through the history of the modern environmental movement (I read Ehrlich’s “The Population Bomb” as a student during ’69-’70), and the historical comments seemed fair to me.
Everyone who is playing whack-a-mole with Hannity (yeah, sometimes he annoys me too) should remember that this sort of show is put together by the producers and lowly researchers, not by Hannity himself. However, he does have the power to nix it, to wreck or misrepresent their research, etc. Hannity deserves credit for going ahead with the program, for having solid producers and researchers, and for not wrecking the work that they put into the show.
That is all we can expect from on-air personalities, and it’s much more than we usually get from Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, et al.
Hannity does not have to be a genius. He simply needs honest, bright people to do the grunt work and then he needs to use their work honestly. On that, he delivered tonight.
Dave Miller in Sacramento
Pretty good show given the time constraints. Was irritated by the email release as due to “hackers.”
I watched in Oz with a couple of freelance documentary makers who only recently started to question their previous beliefs. They are now starting to question the AGW hypothesis after they were impressed with this documentary on Hannity. It is a pity that the MSM are so blinded by ideology as many people do not have satellite TV or Cable. They did not know Hannity so were not prejudiced by his commentary. I thought it was a pretty good effort considering the 1 hour time constraint.
Policyguy says:
August 27, 2010 at 8:05 pm
It’s a shame that this post started off with a “whack job” statement about Hannity.
He did very good job putting this together.
This effort should be widely applauded.
Agreed – Credibly done for a general audience.
Okay, I just watched the entire special and can say unhesitatingly that this is a keeper.
Considering the state of the media today, not to mention the state of the general population (ok the dimwit 52%+ that pulled the lever for the democratic socialist) this Climategate Global Warming special is the absolute best overview that has yet aired. Highly Recommended.
And for all you trolls and/or handwringers/bedwetters that appear above (you know who you are: ‘OMG what will my cocktail party friends think when Hannity airs this‘), well, you can stay out of my foxhole if the stuff ever hits the fan. To paraphrase one of you, ‘with friends like YOU who needs enemies’.
I mean really, panic and bedwetting before you even see the thing! LOL! Well at least you are all preserved for posterity in the archive of this thread. Jeez! Man up will ya!
Considering each one of those segments deserve a one hour show minimum, I felt fair job was done. This was much better than the MSM treatment of a 30 second doom&gloom weallgonnadie and it’sallourfault soundbite. Would have loved to have seen a little cause & effect for past decisions (I really hate Silent Spring & the DDT ban, puts environmenuts on the same playing field as Mao & Stalin for deaths caused, and are you enjoying the current bed bug plague? he he he… I digress). More detail could have been placed into the cost of wind/solar/bio-fuel subsidies and the need for on-line backup power for wind/solar (again the need for a full 1 hour segment).
The treatment of the “Nature trick” was not as I understood it. My understanding, from at least some of their excuses, was that they used measured temperatures vice proxy temperatures when the proxies dropped. Please correct me if I was wrong.
All in all, though Hannity sounds like a broken record & a shrill for the Repubican party, it was worth watching for uninformed on the subject. It was not overloaded with scientific details (to make Joe 6 pack yawn & change the channel).
I found the first two segments on the Fox News site, but couldn’t find the remainder. Does anyone have a link to them?
I watched the show and found that it was easily digestible and well presented. The interviews were good and the show flowed well. While I didn’t learn anything new, I think that folks who don’t visit sites like this one will walk away with some solid takeaways.
The reason why you won’t see this on ABC/NBC/CBS is that they are heavily vested in the left. 88% of those networks employees gave to the Democratic party according to the Washington Examiner.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-Democrats-got-88-percent-of-TV-network-employee-campaign-contributions-101668063.html
“StevenK says:
August 27, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I was surprised reading through the comments on this topic. It almost seems that some people had made up their minds about this program before it even aired. I watched the show, and will probably watch it again in 3 hours when it re-airs. I suggest you do the same (or catch the web version) before you begin making decisions. I thought Hannity did a credible job of a difficult task. From my perspective this is a very complex topic and I would be challenged to fully express all that has happened in a single one-hour program. Take the plunge and actually listen to what he has to say, or perhaps refrain from comment. I thought skeptics were all about avoiding attacks based simply on a person’s name or social rank.”
Not sure if you’re referring to me, but my original position was that where I live, people will not watch Hannity, period…nor will they watch Fox News. Never seen such a group of narrow-minded, no, CLOSE-minded people. Remember that this state was settled by the Puritans, a group not known for scientific reasoning or open-mindedness 🙂
JimB
as mentioned above in aus, only one segment there.
I DO disagree with negating Rachel Carsons work though.
she didnt have an agenda except to.. if you listen..Regulate strictly, the aerial spraying of…pest and weedicide
at that stage untested or barely,on humans and with very little real time/use data,
it was the indiscriminate abuse of said chem!
Call me when a reputable news stations does a story…
Hannity did a fine job and should be commended.
..and yes you can get FOX News in Canada with the News Package — at least on Rogers Cable. It is amazing the difference in coverage with RT and FOX as compared to CTV and CBC. A lot of topics — are only covered from one perspective in the MSM in Canada. If you watch FOX or RT it is obvious that there are alternative viewpoints, data and justifications for many issues. Anything skeptical of conventional wisdom is treated in a condescending manner on CBC. CTV simply ignores anything that is not a mainstream view. At least the weather channel has ceased broadcasting most adulatory comments about Margaret Mead and her promotion of AGW — that fabulous woman indeed! However they do not discuss any skeptical viewpoints that I can see.
Cheers!
Is it just two /-7min sections?
cant find anymore on foxnew.com, but they said they would talk about the science but havent seen any, just 1st bit about Patrick Moore and 2nd bit about obama en C&T. There must be more.