The bottom falls out of major US newspaper coverage of climate

ROM says: @ur momisugly 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: @ur momisugly 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: @ur momisugly 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.