The Elephant We’re All Inside – Junk Journalism on Climate, or Too Big to Cover?

With the political will deflating and the common (wo)man after hearing such pronouncements as ‘Children will not know what snow is’ and then having three snow filled winters followed by wet summers, the only option left is the to run back to the scare tactic.
The world really is moving on and the greenies really can’t grasp the damage they have done to themselves over the last few decades.
I always thought bender summed up the greenies best ‘Kill all humans’

James Hansen thanks Bill Blakemore in the Acknowledgements of at least one of his books. I suspect that much of the ire from “scientists” that Blakemore is “reporting” emanates from the man who doesn’t appear to know that the storms of his ancestors were as bad, or worse, as the storms that his grandchildren are going to see. Hansen, as an unhinged scientist pining for the days of witch-burning, is not alone in wishing for more complete control of the media, of course.

Ryan: “The overwhelming evidence that we are heading for a climate catastrophe would surely be a number of minor climate events leading to the deaths of millions of people?”
Nono. That’s weather. Climate is an average of weather and so has nothing to do with weather. It’s man that controls the weather and the climate then reflects that. The only reason we still have droughts and the like is to ensure greater consumption of fertilizer, plastics, and other oil based products. By the way, have you heard of Nicola Tesla?
On a more serious note: Climate Scientists seem to have it in them to test the adage “Never argue with a man who buys his ink by the barrel.” If they don’t mind their tone, then the MSM will mind it for them. The truth be damned, this is Journalism.

Lucy Skywalker, your site was the type of cheat sheet reference work I did find useful early on as a skeptic, and the effect of gravity on the sky I’d love to read about some day, but I will just state for the record that your link to wires coming out of a cheap foam box taped together with a laser printed “GRAVITY MACHINE” sign above blogging about “us” all having to somehow change the whole of physics, subjected me to a spike of social panic just as I’m starting to boast of skeptical activism in real life, even here on the Upper West Side. You delighted me back in the day by pointing out that local Siberian temperature records did not match the hockey stick’s appended global average temperature. If academia ignores you, make a two minute video and try Kickstarter.

Perhaps Lewadowsky could run another of his high class surveys to find a the conspiracy behind this.
The true believers are such maroons. As we head towards yet another year of fewer tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, and droughts, the AGW hype industry shifts into yet more shrill and deceptive claims.
And now they openly rely on conspiracy theory to explain their failures, which that a**hat from Australia claims skeptics are guilty of.
AGW extremists are such obvious, transparent worthless kooks.

Ermmm… Where is that elephant putting its trunk?

Just as I was thinking “I’ll bet those ’eminent climate scientists’ talking about ‘as solid as science ever gets’ are just the regular handful of the usual suspects, not the thousands of Petition Project’ers”, the next paragraph mentions Hansen. Case proved, methinks!

I believe the author is applying a bit of irony here. What I read between the lines is “Hey scientist, produce something that sells newspapers, or buzz off.”
The tendency of the liberal-arts-humanist-writer type seems to be production of human interest pieces, which the author acknowledges in the quoted part. Perhaps the humans are losing interest in “big disaster coming, but not today”, and reverting to their preffered stories- “small town hero maimed by industrialists, but still in fighting spirits”. The sympathy between those two themes is what has kept the media on the CAGW wagon.

Good to see that we as a species still have enough common sense to reject the hysterical emoting of lunatics & their ‘End is Near!’ signs.
For a while, it looked like exhaling would become attempted murder.

mstickles says:
September 10, 2012 at 2:41 am

Wow. I had to go to the link to confirm for myself it was a real ABC News piece.

Exactly my reaction. The collection of quotes seemed so surreal and the propositions so jumbled, that I had to look up the original article to understand whether article was satire or someone had truly gone off at the deep end.
Having read all of the reader comments at the location of the original article, I am left with absolutely no doubt in my mind that all of the readers who wrote in on that article have a far better understanding of climate, climate science, climate politics and of the politics of climate reporting than Bill Blakemore managed to illustrate.
His article reads like a rambling collection of nonsense written by someone who became overwhelmed by the responsibility of having to write a sensible overview on the status of climate reporting.
How in the world did Bill Blakemore sneak his article by his editors? Was there no one who saw the need to perform quality control on the nonsense he wrote?

There is the smell of desparation in the air. Or solidifying one’s base. It’s as if this November U.S. election is the real deal for the screaming warmistas, even on a global basis. If the more free marketeers win and enhance energy development, then new (renewed) affluence led by this country will be the model to emulate, at least by those countries who have not sold their souls to government/crony corporate control.
I keep waiting for signs that the funding of AGW is changing. One sign I can see is that the crony corps owning major media are losing profitability and market share. I will be happiest when the EPA has been busted and when the higher education bubble has taken out the multitude of grants to non-science climate/sustainability/environmental “science”.

So I looked for a biography on this guy… Since he “confirms” so much he must be a PhD Stats specialists — 0r maybe an Atmospheric Physicist — right? Well — I could not find his Biography, but I did find this gem.
http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Polar_Ice_Caps_Melting
Facts of the Melting Ice Caps
The Times Online states, “the ice caps are melting so fast that the world’s oceans are rising more than twice as fast as they were in the 1970s.” A study by Anny Cazenave of the National Centre for Space Studies located in France shows the melting effect is also due to thermal water expansion. Cazenave’s studies show that by 2010, the Thames River in London could rise by eight to thirty-five inches.
Bill Blakemore of ABC News in a report as far back as 2006 found that the Earth is melting at both ends, which could harm coastal towns. Even the naysayers who say the ice caps are fine can’t deny the facts from the National Academy of Sciences, that tells us the Earth’s surface temperature rose one-Fahrenheit degree in the last century.
All of this melting is thought to be directly related to humans and greenhouse gases. Things like carbon dioxide, nitrous, and methane gas are all contributing factors. Jay Zwally, a NASA glaciologist says, “the warming ocean comes underneath the ice shelves and melts them from the bottom, and the warmer air from the top melts them (polar ice caps) from the top.” Still others argue the ice caps are melting due to human damage to the ozone layer.
Who could argue with the accuracy of those predictions…???? Clearly theis group has the story!
Truly ABC and Bill Blakemore are a group that know how to combat misinformation by — need I say it? Comedy!
Incredible!

Here are two more facts:
1) In his recent paper, Lewandowsky defined “conspiratorial thinking” as “the attempt to explain a significant political or social event as a secret plot by powerful individuals or organizations.”
2) Blakemore argues above that the mainstream media is reporting “anti-science propaganda” in compliance “fossil fuel CEOs” “crime against humanity.”