Scientists Call AP Report on Global Warming 'Hysteria' (recycle, climate, paper)

[thecoalman]

This is why I trust very little that comes out of the media, overhyped is too small a word to say the least. As I see it you cannot trust anything reported in the media. They report bad news and that is it and apprently in this case the "jouranalist" is making stuff up...


FOXNews.com - Scientists Call AP Report on Global Warming 'Hysteria' - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

Scientists skeptical of the assertion that climate change is the result of man's activites are criticizing a recent Associated Press report on global warming, calling it "irrational hysteria," "horrifically bad" and "incredibly biased."

They say the report, which was published on Monday, contained sweeping scientific errors and was a one-sided portrayal of a complicated issue.
"If the issues weren't so serious and the ramifications so profound, I would have to laugh at it," said David Deming, a geology professor at the University of Oklahoma who has been critical of media reporting on the climate change issue.


In the article, Obama Left with Little Time to Curb Global Warming, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein wrote that global warming is "a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid," and that "global warming is accelerating."


Deming, in an interview, took issue with Borenstein's characterization of a problem he says doesn't exist.

[PurpleLove08]

I was going to read it until I saw it was from Foxnews.com

[PNW-type-gal]

Such news this is - a reporter writes a story about anthropogenic global warming and the usual deniers line up to denounce it.

[thecoalman]

Yep, the truth is something we rather ignore sometimes. Here's your chance justify the inaccuracies in the AP article.

Originally Posted by PNW-type-gal

Such news this is - a reporter writes a story about anthropogenic global warming and the usual deniers line up to denounce it.

When the report has as many blatant inaccuracies and the reporter is using the media to further his own agenda then we should hope someone steps forward to point it out. This article like many of the others put forth by most of the main stream media outlets is clearly bias. Reporters are supposed to report the news not make it.

I don't know about you when but when I read an article in the news I want facts, I don't want spin and I most certainly do want to the read authors personal views unless its marked as an editorial.

[PNW-type-gal]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

Yep, the truth is something we rather ignore sometimes. Here's your chance justify the inaccuracies in the AP article.

I'm not interested in an AP article - I follow the technical journals.

Journal of Climate
Journal of Hydrology (being a geologist/hydrologist this one in my favorite)
International Journal of Global Warming
Journal of Geophysical Research
and abstracts from some glaciology journals

and the last place on earth I expect facts from is FOX News.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by PNW-type-gal

I'm not interested in an AP article - I follow the technical journals.

That's wonderful but most people get their information about global Warming from the newspaper and are fed a bunch of hyped up lies like this article contains. That article was probably read by millions of people yesterday.

The same reporter has done it in the past:

Utilities Paying Global Warming Skeptic, Utilities Giving Big Bucks to Global Warming Skeptic - CBS News

AP) Coal-burning utilities are passing the hat for one of the few remaining scientists skeptical of the global warming harm caused by industries that burn fossil fuels.

One of the few remaining? Is that a joke? There's thousands of them manuy of whom are leaders in their fields. The "consensus" that is often quoted in media articles is most definitely not a consensus.

[texdav]

But I hear the temperature for 2008 as released by scientist was colder thus far in 2008 and not expected to change much.

[thecoalman]

Yep and arctic ice at the height of the melting season increased since 2007 but you won't hear a word of it in the main stream press except for some short blurbs here and there and maybe a article on page 57 of the newspaper between the funnies and the obituaries.

One of the opposing theories is we are now entering a cooling phase that will be capped by cold weather in thirty years like we had in the 70's. They can recycle this article.

Another Ice Age? - TIME

Matter of fact they could just recycle it every 30 years and exchange the words heat with cooling and vice versa when appropriate.

[sailordave]

There was a recent news story in which the reporter tried to say all this artic weather is further proof of global warming.

[sailordave]

Snow on the ground in Las Vegas. Tell us about global warming Al Gore