"A Dec. 21 WorldNetDaily article by Bob Unruh breathelssly began: "A
new U.S. Senate report documents hundreds of prominent scientists –
experts in dozens of fields of study worldwide – who say global
warming and cooling is a cycle of nature and cannot legitimately be
connected to man's activities."
But it's not a "U.S. Senate report"; as Unruh himself states in a
curiously vaguely fashion later in the article, "The new report comes
from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's office of
the GOP ranking member." But who is that mysterious "GOP ranking
member"? Unruh doesn't say. (It's Sen. James Inhofe, whom Unruh cites
later in the article but doesn't identify as the committee's GOP
ranking member.
Since it comes from the "GOP ranking member" and not from the entire
committee, as Unruh falsely implied in the lead, it's a partisan
report -- but Unruh never explicitly states that, either.
Unruh also reflects the bias of the report, and his own biased brand
of "journalism," by uncritically repeating its unverified claims --
such as, in Unruh's words, "there probably would be many more
scientists making such statements, were it not for the fear of
retaliation from those aboard the global-warming-is-caused-by-SUVs
bandwagon" -- and making no attempt to gather reaction to it from any
of the global warming scientists whose "consensus" the report is
trying to debunk.
Meanwhile, it comes as no surprise that Noel Sheppard touts the
report in a Dec. 20 NewsBusters post. Since Sheppard has his own
biased history on the subject, he similarly ignores the partisan
nature of the report, stating only that it was "just published at the
United States Senate Committee on Environment & Public works website"
but not that it was published only by the Republicans on the committee.
Sheppard also states that "readers are strongly encouraged to review
this entire document to learn the truth about what real scientists -
those not receiving Oscars, Emmys, and Nobel Peace Prizes - think
about this controversial issue," even though the report ignores what
"real scientists" have said that contradict the claims in the report."
On Dec 23, 2007, at 10:25 PM, justifiedright wrote:
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Choose a bit
> more wisely next time.
Oh one more thing: The report with the 400+ scientists disputing the
Global Warming claims, it came from:
The United State's Senate.
No wonder the New York Times didn't cover it and the Washington Times
did.
The NYT aren't very up to date on politics.
