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Top 5 tall tales by climate change deniers in 2009
t was a banner year for myth making about climate change. Despite mounting evidence that temperatures are rising, the deniers’ camp spun bigger, better and more believable tall tales than ever before.
And those stories worked like a charm in 2009. Amplified by broadcast bloviators and a compliant mainstream media, advocates for burying our collective head in the sand convinced millions of Americans that climate change isn’t happening, isn’t caused by people, or wouldn’t be such a bad thing anyway.
Here are five of the top 10 tall tales in the 2009 climate change denier’s storybook.
Read the rest of my Media Mayhem column on climate change tall tales at the Mother Nature Network.
Driving around in circles
Smooth. Clean. Comfortable. Finally, a ride that says, “I am one with the planet.”
The Studebaker EcoSurfer. The green dream of automobiles. It’s got everything you asked for: power, size and a smooth ride.
Much a-flu about something
Here’s this week’s Media Mayhem column on the Mother Nature Network.
Now, let’s see what happens when you suck up information on, say, the swine flu.
To read the rest, go to the Mother Nature Network.
Limbaugh’s fatwa against NYT’s Revkin
In the midst of my wife having a baby (!!!!), I forgot to post last week’s Media Mayhem column from the Mother Nature Network:
Powerful media personalities seem to be shouting “off with their heads” a bit often. Tsk, tsk. Where’s all the rage coming from?
This was a terrible injustice. Here’s Rush Limbaugh, your ordinary hardworking American earning $50 million a year, and he won’t be allowed to crack the whip …
To read the rest of this edge-of-your-seat column, click to the Mother Nature Network.
Glenn Beck, the Rev. Billy James Hargis and the Fairness Doctrine
In 1974, the Rev. Billy James Hargis presided over the marriage of two of his seminary students in Tulsa, Okla. The newlyweds went off on their honeymoon. That’s when the bride told the groom she’d partaken in sins of the flesh before they were bound together. The worst of it was that her partner in sin was the very preacher who’d married them.
I am ‘an *** for defending’ Al Gore
With the help of Al Gore, I finally made the big time!
Not just one asterisk, not just two — I’m a three asterisk kinda guy.
This is because I wrote a column for the Mother Nature network in which Gore responded to questions about his finances (the transcript of his responses is here).
The first commenter wrote this: “al gore is a crook. and you are an *** for defending him.” An ***! Maybe, this is just MNN’s way of cleaning up the language.
Oh, please, please, please. Puhrty please. Go to this week’s Media Mayhem column and comment there. Maybe if you do, I will earn my fourth asterisk.
Here’s the lead of the column:
If you want to scare people, you need a bogeyman.For the assortment of politicians, lobbyists, provocateurs and media personalities who are trying to convince us we shouldn’t do anything about climate change, that bogeyman is Al Gore.Maybe, the former vice president’s manner draws this kind of thing upon him. An Inconvenient Truth was a startling comeback for the losing presidential candidate. You can’t get much higher kudos than an Academy Award and the Nobel Peace Prize.But Gore’s kind of geeky for a pop-culture icon. He’s stiff and stentorian – at least in his public image, not the first guy you’d want to drink a beer with. He’s the opposite of the smooth “Teflon” politicians — Reagan, Clinton, Obama — whose charisma causes sticky questions to slide off of their backs with no damage.
For the rest of the column, go to the Mother Nature Network.
This post was first published on Cult Of Green.
Media Mayhem: My new column for Mother Nature News!
My first “Media Mayhem” column for the Mother Nature Network (and, hey, how about also checking out Cult of Green, my new blog on the media, pop culture and the environment?):
OK. Take a few deep breaths. Don’t get as worked up about these things as I do: This is how cable news coverage of the climate change bill that’s working its way through Congress will go for the next two months — at least in some media quarters.
Story continued on Mother Nature Network
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