The journalistic self-immolation of Newsweek's Zoë Schlanger

Every once in a while a new reporter arrives onto the climate scene that immediately thinks they know everything there is to know about climate, and therefore doesn’t need to…

Trust the New York Times? Source says Skeptic Climate Scientists are Crooks (ignore NYT's burden-of-proof wipeout)

Guest Opinion By Russell Cook While attending the 10th International Conference on Climate Change in Washington D.C. late last week, Dr S. Fred Singer asked me to send him material…

The Tomorrowland Climate Doom Movie: I watched it so you don't have to

Guest review by John A. Spoiler alert: This review will talk about the plot, so if you want to go and see the movie, please don’t read on. Still here?…

The Guardian: Still hypocritical on pensions

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian has launched an attack on pension funds which invest in fossil fuel assets, accusing them of “… taking an ill-advised gamble on climate…

Science or dogma at the National Geographic Society?

An a-scientific paper, poor contribution of NGS to the enlightenment of its members. Story submitted by Michel de Rougemont I just finished reading the article « The age of disbelief…

Greenpeace enlists Justin Gillis & John Schwartz of the NY Times in Journalistic Terrorist Attack on Willie Soon – Miss Target, Hit Smithsonian Instead

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen I cannot bring myself to quote from this unconscionable piece of journalistic malfeasance: Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher By JUSTIN GILLIS…

The Role of the Media in Aiding and Abetting the Deceptions Seen in Climategate

  Guest opinion. Dr. Tim Ball I knew I was having an impact as a skeptic when I received a call from George Monbiot, reporter for The Guardian. I told…

We're winning – National Public Radio guts its climate reporting team

From InsideClimate News: (hat tip to Michael E. Mann) By Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News NPR has cut back on the number of staffers focused solely on the environment and climate…

Help launch 'Tar Sands Messiah'- A film by Tim Moen

Tar Sands Messiah- A film by Tim Moen – September 19th In which a Fort McMurray environmentalist goes to Los Angeles to render judgement on the movie industry and shut…

National Geographic's Warming Warning – 10 Years Later

Geoff Sherrington writes: National Geographic Magazine had a Global Warming issue in September 2004. New instruments have given new data. By planning now, NatGeo can make a revised issue 10…

Green Journalism; Mainstream Media Creating Climate Stories

Guest opinion by Dr Tim Ball | Creating the News: On August 4 2014, an article in The Guardian claimed, “World’s Top PR Companies Rule Out Working With Climate Deniers”.…

How the media mis-represents everyday science

Joel O’Bryan writes in WUWT Tips and Notes The LA Times has the follwing lead story on it webpage: “Climate change reflected in altered Missouri River flow, report says” http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-missouri-river-20140817-story.html…

The Green Inferno 'flames out'

Green Movie in the Red Story submitted by Kevin D Knoebel The movie is The Green Inferno. NYC student activists travel to Amazon to save the rainforest, meet natives. Hilarity…

Speaking of emotionalism and global warming…use of 'Extreme weather' as an emotional motivator is up nearly 1000 percent

Our previous story showcased a study that linked emotionalism and global warming activism. And so it goes with Network News, using the “if it bleeds it leads” strategy to make…

The 'Gore effect' turns ugly – CNN climate bias revealed

You know of the “Gore effect“, Wikiepedia describes it as  “…an informal and satirical term which alleges a causal relationship between unseasonable cold weather phenomena and global warming activism”, so…

Climactic headline shifts

Bruce Hall alerts me to this headline from Eurkekalert which reads:   But the real headline behind the headline is this one, at the actual source: 

BBC's gag order on climate skeptics is likely to backfire if history is any guide

Story submitted by Eric Worrall. The BBC, the UK Government Broadcaster, has banned former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson from appearing on BBC programmes to talk about climate change.…

About that graph…

This one: The title “Battle of the Graphs” certainly lives on, even though it is approaching a decade in age, as there has been a lot of off-topic contention on…

Why does it always seem to snow in Hollywood Global Warming Films?

Because warm weather isn’t deadly enough Submitted by Eric Worrall The Federalist has a hilarious article, which discusses Hollywood’s big problem portraying Global Warming; its hard to make a nice…

The perils of Science by press release: 'overly exaggerated presentation of research findings'

From the London School of Economics and Political Science: The growth of the science PR industry has resulted in an overly exaggerated presentation of research findings. Science journalism is not…

Making sense of senseless sea level scares in Norfolk Virginia – 60% of the rise is from subsidence, the remainder from landfill settling

One of the problems with so called “science writers” in the mainstream media today is that few of them have the wherewithal and training to do some basic sanity checking.…

Antarctica climate alarmism frenzy revisited – ill-informed, exaggerated and erroneous media claims galore

Sea level rise increase 1/2 thickness of human fingernail crates media “sea level rise alert” panic Guest essay by Larry Hamlin  During May three new scientific papers appeared addressing results…

Global Warming Epic 'Years of Living Dangerously' tanks in TV ratings – series ended on Sundays

The clear, near zero, lack of interest in this show should be a clear signal to the Obama administration regarding their global warming agenda – nobody is buying it. We…

Multi-million dollar global warming disaster epic 'Years of Living Dangerously' beaten in TV ratings by 'Bob's Burgers' reruns

UPDATE: Showbuzz weighs in with an actual ratings number for “Years of Living Dangerously” and it’s mind blowingly low. Even this blog reached more people on Sunday. See below. Showtime’s…