This post was edited on 3/9 12:09 AM by T JThe news media’s skewed coverage of climate science
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The adequacy, truthfulness and motives of the media in their everyday coverage of the global warming issue fall to be questioned, together with the degree to which headlines about the details of Dr Soon’s external research support are really addressing a significant issue alongside other climate-related news.
CO2 emissions have actually risen[/B] since 1990 at a rate faster than the IPCC’s “business-as-usual” prediction made that year.
Nevertheless, (though this crucial and revealing fact has never been reported in any mainstream news medium: you’ll only find it at breitbart.com), global temperature has risen at less than half the rate the IPCC predicted[/B] in 1990 with what it called
“substantial confidence”.
According to the Remote Sensing Systems’ satellite global-temperature dataset, there has now been no global warming at all for more than the past 18 years.[/B] All other datasets show a little warming. Most are within statistical shouting distance of the RSS result.
Over those same 18 years, atmospheric CO2 has risen by 10 percent, which represents close to one-third of the human-related CO2 returned to the atmosphere from which it came since the start of the Industrial Revolution.[/B]
Hurricanes, tropical cyclones, typhoons, extra-tropical storms, floods, and droughts were all formerly predicted by the IPCC to increase in intensity, frequency, or duration.
None has done so[/B], and there is simply no empirical evidence that the occurrence of weather-related disasters is on the increase.[/B]
What can be safely said is that the number of deaths caused by extreme weather has declined rapidly.[/B]
Also, sea level has been predicted to rise rapidly, but the
European Envisat satellite showed sea level to have risen at a rate of just 1.3 inches per century from 2004–2012.[/B]
At the same time, t[/B]he GRACE gravitational-anomaly satellites, the most accurate method of measurement we have, showed sea level actually falling[/B] from 2003–2009.
According to Professor Nils-Axel Mörner, who has written more than 600 learned papers in his 50-year career studying sea level, global average sea level may not be rising at all at the moment.
Global sea-ice extent shows practically no trend since the satellites first began looking in 1978.[/B]
Very few of the surely not uninteresting facts in this summary of recent evidence relevant to manmade climate change has been reported properly in the media. Some news media, such as those whose “journalists” have libeled Dr Soon, have done their best never to publish any of it.
It is surely repellent that mainstream science and environmental “journalists” have failed to report either the total absence of global warming in the past decade and a half, or the near-total absence of warming’s predicted and supposedly apocalyptic consequences[/B].
And yet at the same time these persons have the impertinence to call Dr Soon dishonest for allegedly having failed to disclose grants that he has in fact always promptly, properly, and fully disclosed to his employing institution, which evaluates the grants and accepts them only if they find no conflict of interest.
The news media’s skewed coverage of climate scienc
