Discovery Global Warming special

Penn

Penn

Dancing Up A Storm
Check out this article from newsmax.com:

1. Senators Assail Brokaw Over Global Warming​
The Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works has issued a release attacking former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw for what it calls the “lack of objectivity” in his July 16 documentary about global warming.

According to the release from the committee, which is chaired by Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, that lack of objectivity “compromised” and “tainted” the Discovery Channel documentary, “Global Warming: What You Need to Know.”

“Brokaw’s partisan past and his reliance on scientists who openly endorsed Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004 and who are financially affiliated with left wing environmental groups, has resulted in a documentary that is devoid of balance and objectivity,” the release reads in part.

The release states that Roger Pielke, professor of atmospheric sciences at Colorado State University, viewed an advance copy of the Brokaw special and declared that it contained “errors and misconceptions.” He wrote that it could mislead the public “on the broader view that is actually held by most climate scientists.”

The release continues: “Unfortunately, viewers should not expect a scientifically balanced view of the climate from the former NBC newsman” who “has called the science behind catastrophic human-caused global warming ‘irrefutable . . .’

“Brokaw’s partisan environmental credentials are so firmly established that the former anchor was offered a job in the Clinton-Gore administration to be the director of the National Park Service in 1993 . . . Brokaw’s wife also serves as vice president of the environmental group Conservation International.”

The release points out that Brokaw presents NASA’s James Hansen as an authority on climate change “without revealing to viewers the extensive political and financial ties that Hansen has to Democratic Party partisans. Hansen . . . received a $250,000 grant from the charitable foundation headed by former Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz.

“Subsequent to the Heinz Foundation grant, Hansen publicly endorsed Democrat John Kerry for president in 2004, a political endorsement considered to be highly unusual for a NASA scientist.”

Calling the Brokaw documentary “disappointing,” the release from the Senate committee notes that it has led climatologist Pielke – who has authored more than 275 peer-reviewed journal articles on climate – to conclude that Brokaw presents “flawed science” and “a narrow view of the issue of natural and human climate variability and change.”

The July issue of NewsMax Magazine features a compelling cover story, “Al Gore Spins Global Warming,” that debunks many facets of the global warming theory and Gore’s documentary.
 
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slaphappynmd

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I've got a Global Warming special in my grandfathers backyard, Banana's are actually growing in southern, MD. I've never seen it before, so maybe its just me. But banana's growing here, just seems odd.
 
willie

willie

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slaphappynmd said:
I've got a Global Warming special in my grandfathers backyard, Banana's are actually growing in southern, MD. I've never seen it before, so maybe its just me. But banana's growing here, just seems odd.
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Relax, it's just bagworms.
 
Toxick

Toxick

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slaphappynmd said:
I've got a Global Warming special in my grandfathers backyard, Banana's are actually growing in southern, MD. I've never seen it before, so maybe its just me. But banana's growing here, just seems odd.
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They've been growing bananas at White Sands for at least the last 20 years.
 
hvp05

hvp05

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Penn said:
Check out this article from newsmax.com:
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Great find! I had to wonder if they chose Brokaw for his reporting skills or his political leanings. Attaching his name to the special sends up an immediate warning flag.

I wonder if Gore will also drop in for a "special appearance". :lol:
 
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slaphappynmd

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Toxick said:
They've been growing bananas at White Sands for at least the last 20 years.
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good to know, i had no idea, i try to steer clear of there.
 
hvp05

hvp05

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I am watching this show right now. And I see no reason to watch the remaining 3/4. I am about to run into the street and go :jameo:

Brokaw is obviously not being objective because he is presenting only one view - the end of the world is approaching.

They could have saved people the time of watching this and explained everything in the title: “Global Warming: What You Need to Know... We're all Doomed”.
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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hvp05 said:
Brokaw is obviously not being objective because he is presenting only one view - the end of the world is approaching.
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This doesn't surprise me one bit. The preview said it would be "just the facts" or something like that, and I'm like, "Yeah right - the facts as presented by Tom Brokaw :rolleyes:"

You should read Ann Coulter's new book. It's pretty good.
 
hvp05

hvp05

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vraiblonde said:
This doesn't surprise me one bit. The preview said it would be "just the facts" or something like that, and I'm like, "Yeah right - the facts as presented by Tom Brokaw :rolleyes:"
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I was still curious to watch it...

Apparently someone enjoyed it because I received unsigned/uncommented red. They'd rather do that than actually pound the thing out here in the open. :rolleyes:

This show reminds me of the special Koppel(?) did sometime after Katrina. It was advertised as digging to the bottom of the problems, yadda yadda... it was really a thinly-veiled Bush-bash.

vraiblonde said:
You should read Ann Coulter's new book. It's pretty good.
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If you're done with it... can I borrow yours? :huggy:
 
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