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ABC Smears Scientist For Questioning Global Warming "Consensus"
Touts left wing conspiracy theory to connect physicist
to big oil companies
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Global
Warming Denier: Fraud or 'Realist'? is the headline
ABC News uses to attack Princeton-trained physicist Fred Singer
who dares to challenge the mainstream scientific "consensus"
on the causes of climate change.
In a blatantly one sided hatchet job, ABC News attempts
to demonize Singer and by proxy any other scientist who questions
"broad scientific understanding" that climate change
is being vastly hastened by man made carbon emissions.
Singer
holds a degree in Electrical engineering from Ohio State University
and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University.
That did not stop ABC from ignoring any scientific points Singer
made in favor of simply attacking his credibility.
In an accompanying
video, the network quote an environmental activist
from the left-wing organization Greenpeace to attack Singer:
“Kert Davies, an environmental activist,
says Singer is connected to a whole web of organizations, many
funded by oil and coal companies, that have spent millions trying
to convince the public there’s a scientific debate about
global warming – slowing down government action on a phenomenon
that could lead to storms, droughts, famines, massive refugee
movements and even wars,”
"Singer insists he is not on the payroll of
the energy industry, but admits he once accepted an unsolicited
check from Exxon for $10,000." The article also states.
As we have consistently pointed out, energy companies
stand to gain from inflated prices caused by the fear of global
warming and their representatives have been actively
pushing the man made global warming mantra.
(Article continues below)
In an email response to Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters, which he
gained permission to publish, Dr Singer responded to the ABC hit-piece:
The interview with Dan Harris went for an hour or more.
Clearly, he ignored my complete scientific story (NIPCC vs IPCC),
the fact that 100 climate scientists presented papers at the
Heartland Conference, and that hundreds more are now listed
as climate skeptics. [I am not even counting the nearly 20,000
scientists of various specialties who signed the Oregon Petition.]
Then he added the Greenpeace guy with his weird Exxon conspiracy
and the smear remarks of anonymous scientists from NASA, Princeton
and Stanford (likely Hansen, Oppenheimer, and Schneider). I
would love to debate these guys; we would win hands down
And he personally assured me he wouldn't do a 'hatchet
job'
I commented on the suggestion that I am an 'all-around
skeptic' to his Exec Producer <Felicia.Biberica@abc.com>
as follows:
"Dan did well to mention my doubts about the cancer
effects of Second-Hand Smoke, about the danger of spent nuclear
fuel, and about 'Nuclear Winter.' All true -- Dan did his research.
On SHS, I simply agree with the experts (see attached review
from a medical doctor, specializing in lung disease). Nuclear
fuel presents no technical problems, only political ones. France
and Britain handle its disposal; why don't we? 'Nuclear Winter'
(which burst onto the scene in 1983 -- and disappeared quickly)
was basically a fraud, invented to shore up an ideological position.
We disposed of it in a debate moderated by Ted Koppel on ABC-Nightline."
Journalists are better qualified than I to judge if ABC used
proper journalistic standards and hold their feet to the fire.
Best Fred
Whether you agree with all of Singer's views or
not, it cannot be denied that there are many
many scientists who question the so called "consensus"
on Global Warming.
Hundreds of Scientists
have come forward over the past months and years to assert that
in their opinion any degree of warming that has taken place over
the last 25 years is beginning to be offset by a recent cooling
trend. China, the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, has just
experienced its coldest
winter for 100 years.
Many point to the fact that the Earth goes through
natural warming cycles, primarily caused by increased solar activity.
Many question whether carbon dioxide caused temperature
increase, a
point borne out by ice core samples that show increases
in carbon dioxide in the environment are a result and not a cause
of higher temperatures, lagging behind by as much as 800 years.
Recently Weather Channel founder John Coleman expressed
his intention to sue Al Gore for fraud.
The media in the vast majority of cases however,
attacks any scientist who brings up these questions, often making
out that they deny any form of warming has occurred at all.
While such counterpoints to the self ordained "consensus"
are consistent and enduring, the "consensus" itself
keeps
flip-flopping and changing its story on global warming.
ABC presents a completely one sided opinion in this
piece and which is intended purely to demonize Singer and by association
any other scientist who questions the climate change orthodoxy.
Their article states:
But scientists say there is no "other side."
The debate about global warming is over, they say.
ABC News showed Singer's most recent report on
global warming to climate scientists from NASA, from Stanford
University and from Princeton. They dismissed it as "fabricated
nonsense."
Given that Singer has been regularly attacked in
the past over separate issues he has taken contention with, such
as the connection between passive smoking and lung cancer for
instance, one might even surmise that ABC has purposefully chosen
to attack Singer as an easy target in order to demonize every
other climate change skeptic, or "denier" as they crudely
term such people.
ABC News is following a concerted effort on behalf
of the establishment media to stifle
any debate on this issue and force over a pre-determined
agenda where global warming is concerned.
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