newsbusters.org — Only days after Newsweek was embarrassed when its own columnist, Robert Samuelson, excoriated the magazine for a “fundamentally misleading” and “highly contrived” cover story meant to defame the global warming “denial machine,” Wednesday's NBC Nightly News aired an equally distorted story which smeared “deniers,”
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glynthAug 16, 2007
" ... “proponents of man-made global warming have been funded to the tune of $50 BILLION in the last decade or so,” not even counting the impact of one-sided media reporting, “while skeptics have received a paltry $19 MILLION.” "
climatehereticAug 17, 2007
The problem is that the perceived morality of the AGW movement stops them from seeing this imbalance. Money spent on their truth or even their smear campaigns does not matter because they are right in their minds. Any claims of contrary science is immediately discredited by well funded groups, several web sites have listings of deniers and their alleged connections to oil and coal. Example: www.desmogblog.com - they claim to do relative and complete background checks on "deniers"This organization, what they never mention, is primarily funded by an individual who is currently charged with money laundering in a Internet Gambling investigation by the FBI. While I personally do not think this discredits their opinions, this is the kind of thing that they actively look for in "deniers".
bigbluecarbonAug 17, 2007
"Why make trillions when we can make...BILLIONS?," - Dr Evil