http://mediamatters.org/research/200910010030 At it again: George Will claims evidence of warming is "elusive"
October 01, 2009 3:39 pm ET
In his Washington Post column, George Will claimed that "evidence" of climate change is "elusive" and that scientists are overstating the threat of warming when they say -- in the words of a September 21 New York Times article Will criticizes -- that a recent "plateau" in temperatures has "no bearing" on the long-term warming trend; in fact, scientists routinely present strong evidence of long-term warming and its consequences -- including a September 2009 United Nations report Will himself cited that says "rapid environmental change is underway with the pace and the scale of climate change accelerating." Will has previously been criticized by the World Meteorological Organization, his own Post colleagues, and others for misusing scientific data to claim that warming may not be occurring.
…http://mediamatters.org/research/200909250035 Hannity, oblivious to "scientific nuances," takes NY Times out of context on global warming
September 25, 2009 7:33 pm ET
On his September 23 show, Sean Hannity claimed that a New York Times article reporting that "global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years" is in conflict with President Obama's comments at the United Nations that "(i)f we continue down our current course, every member of this assembly will see irreversible changes within their borders." But Times reporter Andrew C. Revkin, in the article Hannity misconstrued, also reported that the recent temperatures have "been seized upon by skeptics" but that scientists say short-term climate variability "has no bearing on the long-term warming effects of greenhouse gases" and that "trying to communicate such scientific nuances to the public -- and to policy makers -- can be frustrating."
…http://mediamatters.org/research/200909240021 Beck, Hannity falsely claim IPCC's Latif has "pulled the rug out" from under climate change consensus
September 24, 2009 3:47 pm ET
On their radio shows, both Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity seized on a World Climate Conference presentation on short-term natural climate variability by Mojib Latif, a prominent climate modeler, to suggest that, in Beck's words, Latif has "backed out now and said, 'We were wrong,' " about global warming because, according to Hannity, Latif stated that global temperatures are actually "cooling." In fact, Latif asserted that contrary to common "media" misperceptions of global warming as a "monotonic process" in which "each year is warmer than the preceding year," there are significant natural climate variations within the decadal timescale that do not change the "long-term warming trend."
…http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909220020Limbaugh: Climate change meeting seeks "worldwide government that has control over every aspect of every person's life"
September 22, 2009 1:46 pm ET
From the September 22 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
…(Audio at link.)
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