Snow Job: Media Figures Point to Weather Events to Cast Doubt on Reality of Climate Change
On February 12, 2009 - 20:51
To hear certain cable news figures tell it, the existence of winter weather raises doubts about the reality of global climate change. Can the Earth's climate really be getting warmer if it's still snowing, they ask. Such a simplistic non sequitur might be funny were it not for the melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels, and the misinformation imparted to viewers by those entrusted to inform them.
"[T]he press has accepted the basic threat of [global] warming and is now prepared to address the cost and feasibility of various solutions," writes Curtis Brainard in a recent issue of the Columbia Journalism Review. Apparently, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and various anchors on Fox News missed that memo; either that, or they actually believe the fact that it snowed in Las Vegas during December or that there was snow and ice on the ground in Washington, D.C., in January contradict the fact that the Earth's climate is getting warmer. If so, they don't know the difference between weather and climate. If not, it would seem they knowingly deceive their viewers.
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