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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Brad says:
August 28, 2010 at 5:26 am
Call me when a reputable news stations does a story…
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What’s your number, Brad? I’ll call and tell you Hannity did a fine job last night. It was logically presented and a damning case against CAGW watermelons. But then, as a geologist, I’ve been laughing at those clowns for years. I just hope you’re not one of them.
We got all-time record temperature late june 2010 here in Finland. But how about the year 2010 generally? It has been rather cool. Winter was cold like “good old days” 1960’s. June was below average temp. June was really hot (+3 celsius over average) and August started record but continued really cold. Now it’s sure that summer 2010 won’t be much warmer than average. In northern part of Finland, e.g Lappland, it has been much cooler than average.
This year 2010 will not be the warmest – far from it. And as i’ve heard, summer there in western Europe and Britain has been really cool. It looks like the global warming is in trouble – it stopped in 1998.
They nailed it.
Not too many details to boggle the general public, but left them with the take home message of corruption and the science is not settled. Even if someone couldn’t keep up with all of the examples, they left with the impression that there are hundreds of examples.
Good for them.
Hannity just introduced it, and did the commercial breaks.
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Brad says:
August 28, 2010 at 5:26 am
Call me when a reputable news stations does a story…
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Brad, you must mean CBS and Dan Rather, right?
Bernie and PhysicistDave,
Spot on – I second everything you guys said and you said it better than I could have.
I watched the with someone who isn’t that into this issue but she gets regular updates from me on the topic but still isn’t all that interested. For her it was a real eye-opener and she found it a little shocking that Obama was in deep on carbon trading.
The entire global warming climate caper is a great story from beginning to end – Green nonsense from “Silent Spring” and “The Population Bomb” (I read them both in their day along with stuff like “The Secret Life of Plants” and other wonderful ’70s tripe) and just the fact that these two books were practically fact-free goes unnoticed and unchallenged in MSM in relation to the current climate debate.
If any MSM vehicle were to really take this story, in its entirety from “Silent Spring” to Professor Mann’s (and Al Gore’s) million$ and demonstrate the weakness of the envirotards arguments – weak on science; weak on economics; weak on ethics; I believe that particular media vehicle would make a fortune. To me it is unbelievable MSM is missing the enormity of this story.
Hannity did a good job. Let’s hope MSM takes this thing on and more people wake up to the scam.
By the way, I don’t know “Hannity” so I guess I can at least be partly independant in my opinion of the show…if only I could find it.
One hour was not enough! After all we have been inundated daily for 40 plus years with the fraud and it is now inside our schools and universities. Our kids do not stand a chance to ever hear the truth.I do not know if you are aware but here in Canada our kids have to believe in AGW, it is part of the school curriculum, they must answer correctly on their exams or they will fail to graduate. Google ” BC Science 10 and read the first section” This is Indoctrination. The Vile Site Desmutblog will have a goat over Hannity’s Green fraud … I can already feel them ascending to Environmental consciousness.
The Green Swindle:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4323259/the-green-swindle/?playlist_id=87937
@ur momisugly Erik “…?playlist_id=87937” plays only the first 7.5 minute segment. Has anyone found links to all other segments?
Sean Hannity won’t change the minds of the 30% hard core left (if they do watch (which I doubt)) and the 30% hard core right will lap anything up.
But what he CAN do is reach a vast audience of folks in the middle of a political spectrum and lay out some facts for them.
On balance – a good thing.
a nice change at least!
I DO take issue re Rachael Carson being sledged.
she was against the UNcontrolled wholesale and reckless use of chemicals. she was correct!
the organophosphates deildrin chlordates etc have all been proven harmful, and many banned, for Good reason.
the old- but banning DDT killed millions.. line
that was a WHO decision, they either had no Proof that is was safe?
or proof it IS harmful they didnt want to admit to.
they could have chosen to limit and control its supply and use, thats NOT Rachaels fault in any way.
complaints against her are always from the agrichem supporters.
Gore couldnt have given a damn but he or his admen? knew it would catch sympathy for really caring honest green inclined people.
as the original greenpeace founder said, it all got railroaded.
I no longer call myself green, but I still plant trees and moderate my useage.
Is anyone else having trouble getting the Fox videos to play?
The best thing about the Fox news special comes near the beginning. There is a quick shot of Gore and Pachauri standing on stage receiving the Noble Peace Prize. Just before the camera cuts away, we see Gore winking at the audience! If this doesn’t show that Global warming is all a shuck, I don’t know what would.
@ur momisugly Jeff “ “plays only the first 7.5 minute segment”
I know, hopefully fox news will make the rest of it available
Hannity has a repeat slot on Sunday at 9pm eastern. I don’t know if it will be the Green Swindle or one of his shows from earlier in the week. I would put it at 75% that it would be a repeat of The Green Swindle.
Thanks, Glenn, for the link to the ratings. It’s amusing to see that the supposed fringe Fox News which nobody watches actually has ratings equal to the other three combined.
RE: JimB: (August 27, 2010 at 2:24 pm ) “I kind of wish this wasn’t being done by Hannity…”
Of course, this really would be a significant news event if the program had been hosted by Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow, but, unfortunately, I suspect anyone looking for that will be a long time waiting. I almost think that support from that quarter might cause some to doubt their skepticism. 🙂
The best MSM documentation I have seen of the hijacking of a good movement.
The same thing appears to be happening again with the tea party.
How does a grass roots movement survive the selection of a leader or leaders?
OT perhaps.
If anyone finds out when Fox is going to show this again, or knows where it’s on the internet, please post it here.
There are a lot of people that didn’t see it, and are now trying to find it.
Thanks
Watched the full hour show on Austar satellite, considering the time constraints it was as good as could be expected, nothing new to the informed but the political machinations of the whole AGW movement were well presented.
The Obama connection to the Chicago Carbon Exchange was brought up, Glenn Beck has gone into that in great detail (George Soros, Al Gore et al)over the past few weeks so the political involvement should be clear to all.
A follow up would be a good idea, with the futility of wind farms, the back up required, the price hike of food caused by Bio Fuel and its effect on the Third World, resources required for electric vehicles, and the export of jobs caused by electricity prices, (Aluminum production will go offshore in Oz if this happens here with the Emissions Trading Scheme) plus other mining jobs, for a start.
I love how the summary of Hannity’s special given above makes it not at all clear what the conclusions of the show will be…
/sarcasm
Matt says:
August 29, 2010 at 5:55 am
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Isn’t it amazing that someone like Hannity can make a clear believable and easy to understand presentation, and yet in over 50 years the people pushing it can’t.
finally got to see it on repeat and it was excellent from start to finish. kudos to all involved, including Hannity.
having a low opinion of all MSM, including the so-called “scientific” mags, means i don’t care who the messenger is, as long as the facts comes out. since Climategate, the only two hours worth watching have been on Fox. ABCCBSNBCCNNBBC should feel ashamed.
Just found a recording of the show online here:
Looks like 6 parts in all – The Green $windel – The Environmental Agenda – Part 1 of 6
WayneC
Anybody find it online already?
Waynec says:
August 30, 2010 at 2:11 am
Heey good stuff!! Thank you!
Here all six of them are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb9oOEEnXt0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGDvQaJq-k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_98Cvpk-OcY&feature=related