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Dale also notes, as the expert on Trump speeches as acknowledged by his colleagues:
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/27/2018 - 2:37pm
Proof @ Daily Beast today that they often did things way differently with this administration @ "Fox and Friends":
‘Fox & Friends’ Fed Interview Script to Trump’s EPA Chief, Emails Show
The president’s favorite cable-news show shared its interview scripts and its oh-so-hard-hitting questions in advance with an embattled Trump official.
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/27/2018 - 3:24pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/27/2018 - 7:13pm
[blather about CNN deleted - go find a blow Trump site - doubtful environmental argument left for any takers - PP].
The extreme alarmist economic forecast being reported is based on one study in this report not 300 scientists. It predicts an increase in temperature of 15 degrees F by 2100 which is 2x the RCP8.5 worst-case scenario predicted by the UN. The UN prediction has been challenged for exaggerating their prediction of the future increase in fossil fuels use. This means that this prediction is an extreme exaggeration of another extreme exaggeration which has no basis in real science or reality. Any competent non-political reviewer would have noted this glaring anomaly and removed it or at least added a disclaimer.
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 11/27/2018 - 7:14pm
The UN prediction has been challenged
Nothing says "I am quoting fossilized sources (see what I did there?) of dubious provenance" like the resort to the passive voice.
You got nothing,.
by jollyroger on Tue, 11/27/2018 - 7:44pm
Jolly, it;s not clever if you have to tell people it's clever. The people I read are quite animate not fossilized and represent many scientific and technical disciplines. They earn their bread just as most people do by working in their fields. I do got some understanding of this topic and do depend on experienced and well educated professionals to help me understand more.
Another interesting story about why the CAGW alarmists have got problems selling their agendas was reported just a few weeks ago. You may have heard about what is called the Pause in GW because there has been no significant increase in measured global average temperature for the last 18 years while CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has continued to climb. The alarmists have tried denial, manipulating the data and finally settled on the theory that the missing heat their computer models predicted was hiding in the deep ocean. A paper was published from the Scrips Institute of Oceanography that seemed to verify this clever theory finding the missing heat and more.. The media and the CAGW alarmist community saw this as their Eureka moment that would finally silence all those pesky heretical GW skeptics but reality reared its ugly head. One of those pesky heretics, whose writing I read, examined this report closely and quickly found a rather simple math error in the calculations which he reported to the scientists in La Jolla who meekly withdrew their paper, that proved nothing.
Now the true believers are back to plan B of publishing exaggerated and fearful warmings that also fall apart under simple examination but the media continues to print them as scientific fact.
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 11/27/2018 - 11:45pm
Innocent of citation, or even source identification. Sad.
by jollyroger on Wed, 11/28/2018 - 3:27am
All those bloggy moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 11/28/2018 - 3:32am
Claro, but the imbecile is bent on taking us with him--as Krugthulu has it, the tobacco denier kills only himself, the climate denier is depraved and a danger to us all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/opinion/climate-change-denial-republi...
by jollyroger on Wed, 11/28/2018 - 5:00am
Agree with the sentiment that climate change deniers in power are a threat to more people. The tobacco denier creates second- hand smoke which impacts the health of those in close contact.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 11/28/2018 - 8:17am
Here is an excellent Twitter thread tying together both the media issue here and the climate one; click on this to see her whole sad thread:
Now the traditional liberal thing is to blame the "MSM". But I actually do not blame them for doing what their audience prefers to see: political games, to get all het up about what one political operative says and to get emotionally involved in the "fight".
This gets to the heart of what I think is a grand war between news junkies and political activists. Political activists and political horse race junkies are at odds with news junkies and always have been, with the goal of supporting as-objective-as-possible analytic journalism and factual news. Much of early blogging was political spin and activism.
So I see a Josh Marshall type, who starts out as a good analyst but becomes a believer in promoting political activism, as part of the problem. It's the click bait problem; this is the problem of hordes of Obamamaniacs and Clintonites invading a website to duke it out and overwhelming a small group simply simply trying to analyze and discuss what's going on in the world. It pays the salaries of journalists and keeps the lights on. But then the journalists have to keep writing things slanted with political partisanship click bait to rile up the troops. And few want to read the article by the climate scientist, but they all want to read the outrage filled and outrageous latest by a friend-of-Josh spinner giving his opinion so they can argue with it.
As far as I am concerned, Trump has taken this to a whole nother level, far beyond my wildest expectations, where facts and analysis are not just boring but totally ignored for alternative "stories" or narratives. A nightmare where it's not even feeding political partisanship any more but pro-the-narcissist's reality or anti-the-narcissist's reality.
by artappraiser on Wed, 11/28/2018 - 1:26pm
Here are more comments from Hayhoe from the Daily Beast
https://www.thedailybeast.com/climate-scientist-katharine-hayhoe-accuses-cnn-of-bumping-her-expertise-for-rick-santorum?ref=home
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 11/28/2018 - 4:25pm
Jolly, you seem to be a bright fellow so you should know you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. I don't link to this readily available knowledge because it's forbidden fruit that the true believers can't digest It gives them indigestion and all they hear is the hissing of snakes. I understand this condition because I too was a true believer/environmentalist who consumed an Algoreian diet of information that seemed to verify what I observed about GW over 40 years in the same location. I planted thousands of trees, still heat my home with wood, produce as little waste as possible and drive a fuel efficient vehicle, all for the cause that I believed in. I don't regret any of these things and I mocked the GW deniers mercilessly when I encountered them because they must have been deluded tools of the fossil fuels industry. and their wingnut enablers.
Why did I change my POV and expose myself to the same mocking from true believers I used to inflict? I made the horrible mistake of getting a technical/scientific education to improve myself and better understand and defend the Warmist agenda. The problem was I also exposed myself to the basis of the scientific method skeptical questioning of consensus orthodoxy especially when they have political almost religious following such as CAGW alarmism. I don't expect anyone to change their mind overnight about GW, it took me years to understand what is really happening. You can ignore my feeble attempt to educate people and read someone I admire and is probably the most brilliant scientific/philosopher mind alive today. His name is Freeman Dyson a contemporary of Einstein and Oppenheimer at Princeton where he led their Institute on Future Studies until he retired. Search Freeman Dyson, Heretic and you should find his lecture on GW and science. If you can digest it you might begin to see and understand what I and many other people have come to conclude about this political/religious agenda.
by Peter (not verified) on Wed, 11/28/2018 - 1:17pm
I don't link to this readily available knowledge because
You don't link to anything ever to back up your claims. People here link often to debunk the nonsense you post. You've been proven wrong or ignorant so often that you have lost all credibility. When you're proven wrong you never admit your error. You just drop out of the conversation and disappear for a while.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 11/28/2018 - 1:56pm
For all the lull in climate change, temperature's gone way up in YoureUp these last 20 years (killing off much of ski season) , ice caps are being decimated, seems California's being dried out, while global warming's being tied to the increase in hurricanes and weather anomalies. But sure, say it ain't so, Joe - who ya gonna believe, me? Or your lying eyes?
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 11/28/2018 - 2:10pm
PP, is CNN in a protected class now that needs sheltering from my snark?
Can you tell me you believe if GAT has increased by .5 to 1 degree C on a scale of 0 to 100 in the last 20 years qualifies as 'gone way up'? I've observed the weather/climate here in NM for 48 years and seen winters become warmer but summers remain much the same. Old timers tell me the '50s were as warm or warmer and the '30s were definitely warmer and dryer. The ice caps have been 'decimated' over the last 12,000 years and are intact and it appears they will remain intact for a long time. Some are shrinking and some are growing and that will probably continue. We've seen record low snowfall and record high snowfall winters recently along with record low temperatures this year. Scientists tell us that GW could or might increase the number or strength of storms but the record shown no actual increase in these events in fact tornado numbers and strength has declined over the last 40 years.
Repeating what some people say they believe has happened and what might happen doesn't make either true. This is especially true when some people have been exposed as having modified the data from the past to make it appear to fit their predictions about what will happen in the future.
by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 11/29/2018 - 1:59pm
Just dont need your anti-news propaganda - plenty of stupid sites you can post on if that's what you crave.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/29/2018 - 3:20pm
I knowed it's best to just believe Trump. I trust him. Do you?
You should send Trump your stories so he can use them to prove once and for all that he has been sure enough right all along. He's at here-
President Donald Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500.
by NCD on Thu, 11/29/2018 - 4:15pm
Soledad O’Brien are among those criticizing CNN for providing white supremacists a platform to gain ratings.
https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/11/28/former-cnn-anchor-soledad-obrien-blasts-the-network-for-giving-white-supremacists-airtime/
Van Jones is one of the worst. Jones actually thought something positive could come out of Kanye going to the White House
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/van-jones-embarrassing-display-las...
Jones actually called Trump “Presidential” during his speech to the Joint. session of Congress in 2017
https://www.gq.com/story/what-the-hell-van-jones
It is about time CNN stuck to facts
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 11/28/2018 - 3:57pm