Easter Caroling
So, much of the nation is gripped in a record-breaking cold snap Many of the temperature records dating back to the 1800s have been shattered, like so many icicles. Let it snow is now an Easter Carol instead of a Christmas song. And ABC News - with a completely straight face - reported the record cold blanketing the nation, then kicked off their new series on dealing with global warming.
Bwahahahaha.
This is really hysterical, and requires all sharp objects, food and drinking vessels to be properly stowed before proceeding.
On Saturday evening, ABC’s “World News Tonight” kicked off its new series “Going Green” with “fresh ideas for coping with the warming planet.”
Quite comically, this was just minutes after anchor David Muir led the program with a report captioned "Arctic Easter" detailing the “brutally cold temperatures across much of the Eastern half of the country…where there could be record lows overnight”.
Despite this historic cold snap, Muir — with a straight face, no less! — astoundingly began a seemingly contradictory segment just minutes later:
Tonight we kick off our new series "Going Green" — fresh ideas for coping with the warming planet. Just yesterday, a panel of scientists released the most detailed report yet of what is to come. They say droughts and floods are inevitable and they say worse will follow if greenhouse gases are not reduced. The good news, some of this country's best brains are now working on the problem. ABC’s Brian Rooney is in Silicon Valley where high-tech wizards are "going green."
Timing is everything, isn’t it? After all, "fresh ideas for coping with the warming planet" seems a little absurd as folks are digging out their driveways during Passover and Easter.
Now, in fairness, there was nothing wrong with the alternative energy ideas presented by Rooney. I myself installed solar panels some years ago to heat my pool, and am a strong advocate for all Americans to do much more in this regard.
Timing is, indeed, everything. This particular timing has got to have Groucho Marx spinning in envy. AS Noel Sheppard points out, a warm spell doesn't prove anything whatsoever, but the media thumps it like a big bass drum as proof that climate change is real. Then they completely ignore anything like record-shattering low temperatures - and actually pretend they didn't happen. All without missing a beat. Amazing. The only way this could get better (or worse, depending on how you look at it) is if the reporter was standing in a raging flood warning about drought. Which, sadly, will very likely happen soon.
Environment, Junk Science, Media | Gaius Sunday, 8 April , 2007
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By Bleepless, Sunday, 8 April , 2007 @ 7:07 pm
ABC knows — and who could deny it? — that being stabbed in the gut solves your high blood pressure problem.
By Gaius, Sunday, 8 April , 2007 @ 10:30 pm
Gee, would someone explain to the holier-than-thou that a lot of their “proof” rests in interpretations of something that someone else wrote somewhere based on an estimate of something someone else heard somewhere else?
How about thinking for yourself instead of relaying imparted wisdom from people who have a huge economic stake in getting people to believe in their pontifical pronouncements? (Read Algore who uses 20 times the national average of energy and sells indulgences to the people who believe his message with all their hearts. But only if they can pony up the dough for it.)
But name calling is really easy and cheap. (And I will bet, very, very large money that I have a hell of a lot more scientific and mathematical credentials than you, Maha - want to compare degrees?)
Do you honestly believe the folks like Al give a crap about you or whether you are going to live out the rest of your pathetic existence in a mud hut while he jets about the globe lecturing? Really, Maha? Because, to him, you are just someone to use to spread his message. And he would not even notice you when he rolls past in his SUV motorcade on his way to the private jet he is taking to his next lecture about what sacrifices you must make. So he can take more jet rides and milk you for it.
Who’s calling who names?