How Drudge Pumps The Marc Morano Jokers
How Drudge Pumps The Marc Morano Jokers
Recently, the Wonk Room unmasked the fifty-two men who work with Marc Morano, the environmental communications director for Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), to obfuscate the threat and deny the scientific consensus of man-made global warming. This core network of conspiracy theorists and right-wing media operatives generate stories for broadcast by the conservative media network, from Glenn Beck to George Will. But one other man is especially responsible for getting their work out — Matt Drudge. Drudge is a masterful editor, countering real headlines of the climate crisis with tales of “global cooling” and scientific skepticism.
As it turns out, practically every single one the Drudge Report’s headlines of climate misinformation uses a story constructed by Morano’s minions, as the following review of recent Drudge Report headlines reveals:
| How Drudge Pumps The Morano Jokers | |
|---|---|
| Drudge Headline | Morano Joker Participation |
| Obama climate czar has socialist ties; Group sees 'global governance'... [1/12/09] | Steven Milloy, Noel Sheppard |
| ...with near 125-year record breaking low temps [10/23/08] | Lubos Motl |
| Global Cooling? - 'Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof'... [10/20/08] | Don Easterbrook, David Douglass, John Christy |
| Old Farmers Almanac: Global cooling may be underway... [9/10/08] | Joseph D’Aleo |
| Group Repping 50,000 Physicists Opens Global Warming Debate... [7/17/08] | Christopher Monckton, Michael Asher |
| Temperature Monitors Report Worldwide Global Cooling... [2/26/08] | Michael Asher, Anthony Watts, John Christy |
Every single member of this deck of jokers was involved in the creation and dissemination of Marc Morano’s magnus opus, a sprawling PDF headlined “UN Blowback: More Than 650 Scientists Dissent Over Warming Claims,” released December 10, 2008. And so it appeared on the Drudge Report that very day:
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It turns out that big tobacco has been behind climate change denial along with the fossil fuels industry. This video from 1982 has the air of familiarity and shows how they try to engineer the ring of truth (but with bigger hair.)
February 19th, 2009 at 3:26 pmWow, thanks. This explains a lot. Earlier today, I stopped by Drudge where I haven’t been in a while and felt I was entering a parallel but only vaguely recognizable universe, one that was imploding like a supernova (or Rumpelstiltskin). The President was destroying the nation, the people — from high school kids to Street traders — had no confidence in him, the stimulus bill was designed to help Obama’s bil-lionaire friends, & Nancy Pelosi was going to hell.
Thanks to you, I’ve been able to return to the real world without wondering if I’d made it up. Turns out they’re the crazy ones. Good work!
The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChe.com
February 19th, 2009 at 5:30 pmDear Brad Johnson,
I am wondering whether you understand what science means. Science has nothing to do with consensus. Let me quote the late Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008): “There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.”
Do me a favor, take a look on the CO2-temperature diagram that can be found under http://www.gi.alaska.edu/~kramm/climate/co2_t.JPG . This diagram shows the temperature anomaly in Kelvin (K) with respect to the period 1961-1990. This temperature anomaly is based on the annual mean of the globally averaged near-surface temperature taken from the British MetOffice’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (HadCRUT3, http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/hadcrut3.html). Also illustrated is the fitted atmospheric CO_2 concentration as shown in Figure 4 of Kramm et al. (2008, http://aps.arxiv.org/abs/0711.1551). This figure can also be found under http://www.gi.alaska.edu/~kramm/climate/Figure_4.jpg . As documented by the CO2-t diagram, one needs a strong faith to believe that the rise of the CO_2 concentration is responsible for the increase of the globally averaged near-surface temperature. With respect to this diagram, I may conclude that we are far from any kind of consensus.
People like former VP Al Gore and his “scientific” adviser James Hansen (NASA GISS) demand trading of emission rights, a carbon tax, etc. This demand is comparable with Johann Tetzel’s selling of indulgences (”Sobald das Geld im Kasten klingt, die Seele (aus dem Fegefeuer) in den Himmel springt”). Tetzel’s intention was not the salvation of one’s soul, his intention was collecting money for building the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy. This selling of indulgences mainly provoked Martin Luther to write his Ninety-five Theses. It was the beginning of the protestant reformation and irreversibly damaged the power of the Roman Catholic Church. Perhaps, to debate global warming using political, but not scientific arguments will finally lead to a reformation of science.
Sincerely yours
Gerhard Kramm
February 19th, 2009 at 7:41 pmThe only reason it’s possible to convince a small minority of people that there’s any reason to doubt global warming is because stronger storms make people think winters are getting colder, and they are right, but that has little to do with the total thermodynamic kinetic energy in and the temperature of the atmosphere.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:37 am” … but that has little to do with the total thermodynamic kinetic energy in and the temperature of the atmosphere.”
Now there, is a contentless sentence.
The average (translational) energy of a gas (the kinetic energy of a gas) is proportional to exactly one thing: the absolute temperature of the gas, and that proportionality is the same for evergy gas.
March 4th, 2009 at 5:41 pm