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There are liars, damn liars, and then the Repuglican right who live on lies:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012150004
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FOXLEAKS: Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science

December 15, 2010 8:08 am ET by Ben Dimiero

In the midst of global climate change talks last December, a top Fox News official sent an email questioning the "veracity of climate change data" and ordering the network's journalists to "refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question."

The directive, sent by Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, was issued less than 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was "on track to be the warmest [decade] on record."

This latest revelation comes after Media Matters uncovered an email sent by Sammon to Fox journalists at the peak of the health care reform debate, ordering them to avoid using the term "public option" and instead use variations of "government option." That email echoed advice from a prominent Republican pollster on how to help turn public opinion against health care reform.

Sources familiar with the situation in Fox's Washington bureau have expressed concern about Sammon using his position to "slant" Fox's supposedly neutral news coverage to the right.

Sammon's orders for Fox journalists to cast doubt on climate science came amid the network's relentless promotion of the fabricated "Climategate" scandal, which revolved around misrepresentations of emails sent to and from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.

At the time of Sammon's directive, it was clear the "scandal" did not undermine the scientific basis for global warming and that the emails were being grossly distorted by conservative media and politicians. Scientists, independent fact-checkers, and several investigations have since confirmed that the CRU emails do not undermine the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet.

Contrary to Sammon's email, the increase in global temperatures over the last half-century is an established fact. As the National Climatic Data Center explains, the warming trend "is apparent in all of the independent methods of calculating global temperature change" and "is also confirmed by other independent observations."

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All lies all the time. Vote repuglican.


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rubato

So let's see now...

There's really not much doubt that the earth is in the midst of a warming cycle, but many critics challenge the "cherry picking" of data that "climate change" alarmists do to make the situation appear worse than it is.

So it seems entirely appropriate to me that when mentioning the latest salvo of alarmist nonsense in the news, it would be appropriate also to mention that there is no consensus on the methodologies of measuring the "average" temperatures of the earth over time. Indeed, many sources indicate that global temperatures have cooled somewhat since Y2K.

Furthermore, it really doesn't matter whether or not the earth is in a warming cycle or otherwise. The relevant questions are (a) how much of this is caused by human activity? (b) how much of the human activity is controllable by those who would be willing to take controlling measures? (answer: Very little), and (c) what is the most rational and prudent course of action for the United States of America?

Pick one:

1) Stop burning fossil fuels and encourage everyone to become an organic subsistence farmer,
2) Buy stock in Trane.