Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Michael Mann, inventor of the iconic Hockey Stick Graph, is concerned that TV networks might have been “compromised” into downplaying the climate crisis.
Why has climate change been ignored in the presidential debates?
While we rake over Clinton’s emails and Trump’s late-night tweets, climate has been the elephant in the room, leaving scientists and campaigners asking why there hasn’t been a single direct question about the crisis.
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“I’ve been shocked at the lack of questions on climate change. It really is fiddling while the world burns,” said Kerry Emanuel, a leading climate scientist. “This is the great issue of our time and we are skirting around it. I’m just baffled by it.”
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have yet to face a moderator question on climate change during two debates in which time was found to grill Clinton repeatedly over her use of emails and to ask Trump about a series of late-night tweets he sent about a former Miss Universe’s sex tape. Lester Holt, the moderator of the first debate, was reportedly set to ask a climate question but ran out of time.
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“It’s like a sort of collective cowardice,” said Emanuel of the omission. Michael Mann, another prominent climate scientist, added: “One has to wonder if television networks are compromised by the millions of advertising dollars they take from fossil fuel interests.”
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Mann is not alone in wondering whether the media have been bought off – high profile British climate commentator George Monbiot asked the same question back in August.
Like many climate hypothesis, this conspiracy doesn’t hold water when you examine the evidence. There are plenty of hardcore greens in the media, including high profile presenters who have no qualms about embracing green extremism, who would vehemently reject any attempt to buy them off on climate issues. For example, back in 2014 MSNBC seriously discussed forced reeducation courses for “deniers”.
The real reason climate doesn’t attract more media attention is rather mundane, not nearly as exciting as Mann’s dark criminal fantasies. Back in 2014, senior NBC executive Patrick Burkey offered the following explanation.
“Weather coverage can drive ratings,” Burkey said, but “you have to be careful that you’re not covering weather stories that aren’t real news every night. It’s an easy way to lose the trust of the audience about what is really an important weather story.”
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/tv/article4446150.html
Bottom line, if climate advocates want more airtime, they need to make an effort to say something newsworthy.
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Poor little Mikey….
He has apparently forgotten the lesson of Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”….
CAGW rent seekers have been crying wolf for 30 years, and the villagers have finally had enough…
There hasn’t been a discernible global warming trend in 20 years, despite 30% of all manmade CO2 emissions since 1750 being made over just the last 20 years, NASA admitted last year (after sitting on the data 22 years) that Antarctic land ice is growing at 100 billion tons/yr, there have been no increasing global trends of severe weather incidence nor severity over the past 60~100 years, sea level rise has been stuck at 6~7″/CENTURY since 1800, ocean pH is stuck at 8.1, etc…
NONE of CAGW’s doom and gloom predictions are come CLOSE to reflecting reality.
Moreover, satellite data and peer-review studies show manmade CO2’s fertilization effect has increased global greening by almost 40% since 1980, and increased crop yields 25% since 1800.
Under the rules of the scientific method, CAGW is already a disconfirmed hypothesis.
In 5~7 years, the disparity between CAGW projections vs. reality will exceed 3+ standard deviations for 25 years, at which point CAGW will be laughed at.
The reason there is so little interest in CAGW is because it has become a joke.
Trump has gone on record saying “climate change is the biggest scientific scam in the world”. I’m not sure Hillary really wants to debate climate science with a hard core denier on the big stage. Climate change has not been a top ten issue for the American electorate since… the late nineties… the start of the Pause, so I think Hilly just wants to sneak into power with a “implied environmental mandate” before she espouses a carbon tax to the peeps.
The reason it is not a big issue in the election campaign, is they realise the public is not really interested, it always comes down the bottom of the list in polls about peoples concerns.
Speaking of polls, the latest Fox News poll (yesterday) showed Hillary with a six point lead over Trump. Which was an increase over the previous week’s poll.
But they showed a breakdown of that poll on tv, and listed the top 10 concerns of people, and it showed “climate change” at number five, and “immigration” at number eight. There is no way that is correct, immigration is much higher on the concern list of any other poll than is climate change, so that makes me question the rest of the poll results.
TA-san:
Leftists simply wish to exhibit virtue POSTURING, in blindly repeating the meme, “Saving the earth from manmade global warming”, but aren’t willing to actually PAY the $10’s of TRILLIONS Leftist political hacks wish to steal on this CAGW scam…
Leftist political hacks try to create the false narrative that “saving the earth from CAGW” will create jobs, but even the most braindead Leftist realizes the absurdity of this claim…
Leftist hacks simply want to steal $10’s of TRILLIONS of taxpayers’ money and to create the false polarizing narrative of those “for saving the planet” and those that want to “destroy the planet”…
CAGW is simply the biggest and most expensive Leftist scam in human history. It’s a political phenomenon, not a physical one….
Anthony, I know you’re trying to be fair and report the ramblings of the anointed one. That’s fine. Could you please, however, not show a picture of his visage. Every time I see his face, I waste valuable time wondering how anyone can smirk with a mouthful of nuts.
Whose nuts?
Deez nuts.
That’s not funny, that’s mean.
Wait, what?
This is under review.
Wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
Upon further review, the initial ruling is overturned,
The comment is found to be funny AND mean. .00015 deducted, skeptics retain possession.
So… they don’t like not being the center of attention. Got it. After all, fame brings big bucks and feeds massive egos. Meanwhile, the politicians are seeing that climate whatever-it-is-this-week is a vote-loser and don’t want to talk about it in public, although they’ll be back to saving-the-planet once the will of the people is out of the way again for a bit, I’m sure.
Maybe those leading climate scientists ought to run it through their big expensive supercomputers and work out if their halos are tarnishing, you know, due to global-warming-weather-weirding.
A man with severely compromised integrity claims others are compromised. Meanwhile after decades of being bombarded with BS about disasters that never materialize they wonder why more people aren’t taking their claims seriously?
I mean the Children of the UK still know what snow is and there is evidence of new glacier formation in the Scot highlands. People are still driving on the West Side Highway in NYC. Texas is wetter and cooler than usual and certainly not in a permanent drought. The Arctic is not ice free, even when measured in Wadhams. The ski resorts in the Rockies have had great snow for their seasons. Atlantic hurricanes are running at average or below incidence and intensity. The interior of the Antarctic is colder and seeing increased snow fall while the Western Ice shelf remains intact despite geothermal activity. The Greenland ice cap is still there and not showing signs of going anywhere fast. Several countries in S. America saw record lows during their winter this year. etc, etc, etc. And these people wonder why they and their warnings are not being taken seriously?
You have to have integrity before it can be compromised. He has no integrity whatsoever.
These Greenies have obviously not been watching any of the BBC’s nature programmes fronted by Attenborough recently. They spout the CAGW line regularly, and he appears to have ignored how much good the increasing levels of CO2 are doing for plant life. And now, having called for public suggestions for the new UK icebreaker, they have deliberately ignored the clear winner and instead will call it after this senile buffoon. Maybe he should be called BoatyFace, instead of the ship!
As I sit here in my Nittany Lions tee shirt after a successful career in engineering, I have to admit I’m embarrassed for my alma mater hiring Mann, once the Canadian showed the lie on the hockey stick that should have been the end of Mann but no the idiots now dominate.
Emanuel and Mann are to climate science as Joseph Mercola is to medical science.
Come to The Netherlands where the media are preaching climate end of the world this week.
It’s because none of the slack-jawed shirt-drooling believers in the hillbilly pseudo-physics and fraudulent mathematics can bear much more public spotlight where people check their dipstick-with-a-keyboard factor.
The entire fraudulent group of government administrators like Mann were revealed lying, cheating, stealing, and faking warming since the year 1998.
The biggest email to hit the news from Climate Gate was when Mann, Jones, Trenberth, et al, were designing the destruction of a reporter’s career: because he was saying, what the very same email batch revealed: that they knew it stopped warming in 1998.
”The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world cooled since 1998. Ok it has but it’s only seven years of data and it isn’t statistically significant.”
Just three months after Climate Gate that same Phil Jones, who had suggested with Mann, that they do to the BBC reporter what they had done to ”the other one” – destroy his career in science reporting through calling his boss and threatening him –
admitted in his Feb 2010 BBC don’t-go-to-jail interview, that – he didn’t know what the C.R.U. was going to do with him – he had been on suspension facing possible jail if he didn’t confess all and truly to the BBC in that very interview – but he did know that –
yep – he’d been right in 2005 when he told scientist John Christy the world cooled,
and he was sure then – when on suspension in 2010 – that the world had not warmed since 1998 but had in fact cooled some.
It’s fraud. Just because people prosecute people for pot being like heroin doesn’t mean the federal governmet’s chemistry scam about that is real science.
Just because government employees like this criminal hack keep sqealing the laws of thermodynamics don’t work in gubmunt signts,
doesn’t mean that we all haven’t found out how much sheer criminality is involved with their fraudulent destruction of scientific credibility in the weather and climate fields.
I seems absurd to suggest that a single conspiracy involving a small number of individuals could have been responsible for the demise in trust in the advocacy of climate alarmism.
If Mann would like to find such a conspiracy then he should have a look at his own history.
He and his pals were the only conspiracy. A conspiracy of fools.
Trust was eroded. “Scientific fact” was called into question, into dispute and then into disrepute.
All because of the excesses of a small gang of ego-maniacs fighting against reasonable and quite justifiable skeptical enquiry and attempted replication of their purported findings.
He has been a gift to climate skepticism. An emblem of rotten science. The pig at the grant trough.
He should hold himself responsible for everything that has gone wrong for the alarmists.
I was an alarmist once. I thank Mann for awakening me from my National Geographic and Guardian induced slumbers.
Also, he is blessed with a perfect face for cartoon parody.
Except that if he lost a few pounds we might mistake him for Gavin Schmidt.
Never has a man done so much damage to the cause which he claims to advocate.
It’s been a joy to behold. Let’s send him our thanks.
Oink!
Retracted as unkind.
You have posted that single word following my comment, which is awaiting moderation, in which I describe “the pig at the grant trough”. Since you can’t see my comment yet, I thought that I’d let you know that your singular “oink!” is going to be provided with additional context, when I emerge from moderation.
I accidentally used an automatically moderated word, in my joyful celebration of the achievements of the master of scientific and statistical incompetence.
Inde-
Your 9:43pm post expresses the truth about Mann and his ilk much better than mine.
Michael Man and
The Hockey Stick
There was a crooked Mann
Who played a crooked trick
And had a crooked plan
To make a crooked stick
By using crooked math
That favored crooked line
Lysenko’s crooked path
Led through the crooked pines
And all his crooked friends
Applaud what crooked seems
But all that crooked ends
Derives from crooked means
Eugene WR Gallun
Excellent, Eugene, keep ’em coming.
I love that one. 🙂
Because, you blustering marshmallow, we are simply tired of hearing about it.
Maybe if he’s that worried about media exposure he should buy some commercial time.
Or, he could always debate Christy or Curry on national TV if he wants attention drawn to his agenda…
Meanwhile i wonder if there’s a media conspiracy to avoid asking questions about Obama’s policy towards the Castro dictatorship, which allows the unrestricted import of cancer causing Cuban cigars, which generate huge profits for the communist regime. Like Dr Mann I’m obsessed with MY particular pet subject, and I simply can’t swallow why the media is engaged in this conspiracy to annoy me.
It is not the media that are compromised. Mike should look much closer, to the body part connected to his neck.
The thorax?
Climate change is a “save the planet issue” requiring more sacrifices/penalties to US citizens than to the rest of the world. It does not play well for Clinton to try to sell a global mentality position in an election focused on maximizing benefits that give Americans benefits in world competition.
Trump is pretty uninformed about climate change and has made some dumb statements even if he might have the right idea. He would dig a hole for himself discussing something he knows nothing about on a topic where a good understanding is needed to defend a position that is not shared by many……and with the risk of appearing to not care about the environment. .
“Mike Maguire October 20, 2016 at 3:12 am
Climate change is a “save the planet issue” requiring more sacrifices/penalties to US citizens than to the rest of the world.”
Are you sure about that? I think you will find the 350 or so million people in the EU are waaaaaayyyyyy ahead of the US in terms of “carbon taxes” than the US.
“leaving scientists and campaigners asking why there hasn’t been a single direct question about the crisis”
The answer is simple. There is no crisis, and the vast majority of people across the world realise that there is no crisis. Only the AGW fanatics like Michael Mann and Kerry Emanuel, who continually try to revive a lost cause in order to save their rapidly diminishing reputations, still believe in the crisis. They will all end their careers wondering how the hell they ever got involved in such inept scientific enquiry.
Bottom line is that people are bored by global warming.
They have been told daily that the sky is falling on their heads, but when they look around them in their normal lives, they find this is not so. And then they have been told that global warming will result in flood-droughts, calm-windys, misty-clears, hot-colds, serene-storms, and rain-drys.
The Mann has cried ‘Wolf’ once too often, so it is not surprising that people have switched off.
More than once too often. Way more.
Perhaps it is as simple as his bank account being very low.
And let us not forget about Steyn v. Mann and the way the Federal Court system is moving at a pace slower then any known glacier in proceeding with this case. It’s about time this stone walling by the court in this important 1st amendment case don’t you think?
http://www.steynonline.com/7534/trial-of-the-century-update
There must be some other MSM we don’t know about, because the MSM we know about has been a mouthpiece for the CAGW ideology and Mannian pseudoscience all along.
Perhaps it’s the MSM on whatever planet he’s from.
If you aren’t sufficiently generous in your praise of Trump, there are many who will declare that you want Hillary to win.
“Michael Mann, inventor of the iconic Hockey Stick Graph, is concerned that TV networks might have been “compromised” into downplaying the climate crisis.”
Yeah, just like YOU have “compromised” the application of scientific theory for the sake of your government grant money……………M0R0N!
Hilarious. Hasn’t he been watching any television? Watched the idiotic Weather Channel?
Mann has got his latest propaganda piece into today’s UK Daily Mail…WITHOUT btl comments allowed. I didn’t read it in detail because the headlines were enough to give his game away. Besides it’s entirely in keeping with the climate industry’s one-way propaganda with no challenging dissent allowed.