Why Is “Climate-Gate” Still Being Ignored By the Mainstream Media?
Ryan Renell, November 29th, 2009
On November 19th 2009, the corruption and lies behind the global warming religious movement in this country were exposed and brought to the light of day by Anthony Watts on his science blog “Watts Up With That”. Yet as of this writing, a full TEN DAYS LATER, we still have not seen significant media coverage. Surprising? Of course not.
The liberal spin machine has a vested interest in keeping the global warming – scratch that – “climate change” movement alive. Environmentalists cling to the fallacy that human-cause CO2 emissions are directly responsible for something. Something bad. And even though the evidence overwhelming dispels any link between CO2 emissions and the rise of global temperatures, it must still be causing something, anything bad because damn it, WE SAID SO.
You should continue to feel guilty for destroying your planet. You should continue to pay premiums for CFL bulbs even though they don’t last as long as claimed. And God forbid you should break one and be stuck with a messy Mercury clean up. You should also continue to cling to your hybrid/electric vehicle and your grand plans for avoiding those annoying, environment-killing gas stations in favor of plugging in your electric Mini Cooper and cruising to the organic grocery store. And of course, you should defend the Cap and Tax bill to the death. It’s the only way to keep Al Gore rich.
And as their vaulted leader, the One, the Almighty Lord and Savior Obama heads to Copenhagen to probably bow to someone he shouldn’t and apologize for his country full of environmental miscreants, China continues to belch forth its massive discharges of manufacturing by-products at record setting rates. But we are the ones who should feel guilty about that too since they are building OUR stuff.
Fox News continues to be the only bastion of common sense to be found within the mainstream press here in the United States. But of course, they are accused of aiming from the right with everything they do so their efforts are frequently minimized by the left.
Sadly, we need to go outside of our own country to find any objective coverage of this importance story. Christopher Booker of the Telegraph in his November 28th piece titled “Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation” has asserted:
“Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with a whitewash of what has become the greatest scientific scandal of our age. “
And I whole-heartedly agree. Time will tell if this issue will be addressed by our major news outlets here in the U.S. The left wing movement, of which the press is largely entrenched, will suffer the single biggest hit among many in the last several months. Jumping in bed with a political party to get a United States President elected at the risk of losing all credibility is bad enough. The 4 year ride will be fun for them and they have the last year of Obama’s term to decide whether to jump or continue the fallacy, depending on how their Lord is doing in the polls.
But ignoring climate-gate, attempting to sweep the matter under the rug as they are so famous for, risks damaging their credibility beyond all repair. This is not an opinion story. It is a numbers story: degrees of temperature, pounds of CO2, trillions of dollars flushed down the global warming sewer. All of these things are measurable and can be quantified. These facts and the sheer volume of other ignored intricacies of this topic will leave the mainstream media in the United States with plenty of explaining to do.