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‘If you want to decide what to do about climate change then the climate scientists are really the least likely to understand what policies or alternatives there are.’
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Attention, MSM climate reporters: Not only do you not understand the climate, you don’t understand how or why you do not understand the climate. That’s just one reason why you need to respect scientists such as climate “skeptic” John Christy, who at least has the humility to understand that. Confused? Then read on.
I hope you all took time to read Mollie Hemingway’s piece this week concerning the problem of media ignorance. The really troublesome aspect of it, as I see it, is not when people are unintentionally ignorant of the matters they cover, which is of course excusable. No one is expected to be an expert on everything they write about, and in practice, it just serves to foster the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, which you have surely experienced regularly if you are an expert in something and a consumer of media. Yes, it’s a problem when those youngsters in media who got promoted because they are really good at the Instagram don’t know about something because it’s on the second page of the Google results. But leaving something you didn’t know out of a story is more excusable than asserting something inaccurate out of ignorance, which is still more excusable than purposefully putting on blinders and ignoring anything that conflicts with your thesis because you’d rather not engage it. It’s one thing to not knowanother perspective exists – it’s another to purposefully pretend it doesn’texist.
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Why did Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore leave the organization? It became anti-science and anti-human. He’s righteously disgusted about it.
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Heartland and the scientists it works with have never promoted “denial of a changing climate.” The climate is always changing. The question is whether man’s contribution to climate change rises above statistical noise and whether it is a crisis.
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Unlike the alarmists — who all sing in perfect harmony about man-caused climate calamity from the group-think hymnal — the scientists who speak at our conferences don’t all agree on everything. That’s the nature of bringing together scientists who study the climate from diverse disciplines. That’s healthy for science, as well as the goal of advancing greater public understanding of what is actually happening to the climate.
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LAS VEGAS — Below are the prepared remarks by Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast to open the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change on the evening of July 7, 2014 at[…]
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A creative commons license is a kind of copyright license that gives people the right to use, share, and expand upon a creator’s work whether this is an art work, a piece of literature, or a scientific or academic material. It offers a significant protection against accusations of copyright infringement and is believed by some to offer artists a degree of flexibility they may desire. It is also in the interest of citizens to see that the artwork they pay for through government funding for the Arts is made available for their benefit in some fashion. Mandating creative commons licensing for all state-funded artwork would accomplish that goal.
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Legendary TV meteorologist John Coleman was on the Bruce Wolf & Dan Proft Show this week on WLS-AM to talk about the Obama administration’s latest Climate Assessment Report. John was not impressed
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Talk radio superstar Mark Levin interviewed Heartland’s James M. Taylor the day Barack Obama released his National Climate Assessment Report. Mark’s audience is now fully informed about what the actual data says is happening to our climate, and why government bureaucrats are pushing global warming alarmism.
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Lee Fang is laughably incompetent, producing the dumbest story about Koch Industries ever written.
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The Australian edition of The Guardian — probably the most hard-left of the lefty daily newspapers in the English-speaking world — published a story Thursday about how Attorney General George[…]
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Bret Baier: ‘Despite repeated proclamations that science comes down on one particular side, it turns out many scientists do not agree.’
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The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) will issue its critique of the United Nations’ IPCC Working Groups II and III Reports at National Press Club on April 9.
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On Thursday, February 27, I received an email inviting me to be part of a segment “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart was doing on fracking. This is how it went.
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Years ago, I read Henrik Ibsen’s book about a scientist taking a stand against an entire town when he discovers the town’s medicinal spa is polluted. The most ironic thing[…]
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Keep these tricks of liberal bias and techniques of good journalism in mind when you read newspapers and do your own writing.
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Huffington Post writer Bill Shireman thinks The Heartland Institute can shape the writing and rhetoric of prominent leftist Naomi Klein. We should be so lucky.
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