A letter from David Brock of Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/index - see articles on Global Warming
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Dear Friend,

CNN has crossed the line. On Wednesday, the self-proclaimed "Most Trusted Name in News" aired an hour-long special on Global Warming that was anything BUT news.

The special, "EXPOSED: The Climate of Fear," on CNN Headline News was hosted by Glenn Beck, whose long history of factual distortions on Global Warming have been well documented by Media Matters.

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Indeed, Beck's special began with him saying, "[T]his is not a balanced look at global warming." Of the 10 people featured on the program, eight have ties to the energy industry, have spread misinformation about Global Warming, or both. The other two did not address the science behind Global Warming, but rather ways to change energy consumption habits.



Marlo Lewis: a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), an institution largely funded by the energy industry. As The Washington Post reported on March 19, 2006, CEI, "which widely publicizes its belief that the earth is not warming cataclysmically because of the burning of coal and oil, says ExxonMobil Corp. is a 'major donor' largely as a result of its effort to push that position."
Dr. Timothy Ball: a climatologist who is also the chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, a Canadian environmental think tank whose three-person board of directors includes an executive of the High Park Advocacy Group, a Toronto-based lobby firm that specializes in 'energy, environment and ethics." Timothy Egan, High Park Advocacy Group' president, is "a registered lobbyist for the Canadian Gas Association and the Canadian Electricity Association."
Patrick J. Michaels: a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute, research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, author of two books on global warming, The Satanic Gases and Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming, and editor of World Climate Report, a biweekly newsletter on climate studies funded in large part by the coal industry. According to a 1998 article by Institute for Public Accuracy executive director Noah Solomon, the Cato Institute has received financial support from energy companies -- including Chevron Companies, ExxonMobil Corp., Shell Oil Company, and Tenneco Gas, as well as the American Petroleum Institute, Amoco Foundation, and Atlantic Richfield Foundation.
Patrick Moore: a former Greenpeace activist who has served as a corporate consultant since 1991. His public relations firm, Greenspirit Strategies, specializes in strategic communications for mining, fossil fuels, logging, and nuclear power industry clients. As the Center for Media and Democracy reported, Moore's "past work with Greenpeace has proved an irresistible hook for many reporters, even though his association with that group ended in 1986."
Chris Horner: senior fellow for the energy industry-funded CEI, author of the book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) (Regnery, February 2007), and has appeared on Beck on at least three separate occasions to attack the "hysterical movement" of environmental activists warning of the threats of global warming (April 23, April 5, and March 21), as Media Matters has noted.
John Christy: the director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama-Huntsville and Alabama state climatologist. Christy and fellow University of Alabama professor Roy Spencer co-authored a 2003 global warming study based on extensive data from weather satellites. Their report, which concluded that the troposphere had not warmed in recent decades, was ultimately found to have significant errors. The New York Times reported that when their miscalculations were taken into account, the data used in their study actually showed warming in the troposphere.
Bjorn Lomborg: a "political scientist" at the Copenhagen Business School who purported to conduct a "non-partisan analysis" of environmental data in the hope of offering the public and policymakers a guide for "clear-headed prioritization of resources to tackle real, not imagined, problems." His conclusion was that the concerns of scientists regarding the world's environmental problems -- including global warming -- were overblown. But in January 2002, Scientific American ran a series of articles from four well-known environmental specialists that lambasted Lomborg's book for "egregious distortions," "elementary blunders of quantitative manipulation and presentation that no self-respecting statistician ought to commit," and sections that were "poorly researched and ... rife with careless mistakes."
David R. Legates: an associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware. His 2006 report, "Climate Science: Climate Change and Its Impacts," was published by the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank that has received substantial funding from energy interests such as ExxonMobil Corp.
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The only thing "EXPOSED" by Beck's Global Warming spectacular and by CNN's willingness to air it was Beck's aversion to the broad international scientific consensus and CNN's eroding credibility as a news outlet.

I urge you to contact CNN and tell them this issue is too important to get the facts wrong and mislead the American people -- they must stop airing global warming misinformation today!

Beck's special is the very type of program CNN should be investigating, not promoting. As a news organization, it is irresponsible of CNN and Headline News to allow Glenn Beck to impugn their credibility by spreading misinformation. If we don't speak up now, the road will be paved for similar "specials" of questionable credibility to be aired on CNN and other networks in the future.

Please, act today. Remind CNN that it is a cable news network and not another cog in the conservative noise machine.

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Thank you for your continued support,



David Brock,
President & CEO
Media Matters for America

P.S. CLICK HERE to visit Media Matters' Global Warming Misinformation Action Center and stay up to date on the discussion!

More from Media Matters on Glen Beck and Global Warming:

Beck's global warming special dominated by industry-funded "experts," serial misinformers

CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck's May 2 hour-long special, Exposed: The Climate of Fear, purported to present the "other side of the climate debate that you don't hear anywhere." Introducing the show, Beck stated: "I want you to know right up front, this is not a balanced look at global warming." Indeed, Beck relied heavily on people with energy industry ties and others espousing positions on global warming that have been soundly debunked or rejected by the overwhelming majority of scientists studying climate change.

CNN host channeled Beck on global warming: "[T]he cause and how we can help is something that is up for debate"

On the May 3 edition of CNN's American Morning, during a discussion about CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck's May 2 hour-long special, "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," co-host Kiran Chetry stated that there is "no denying" global warming is happening, but added, "I think the cause and how we can help is something that is up for debate." In fact, as Media Matters for America has repeatedly documented, scientific organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) share the consensus view that, as stated in a June 2006 NAS report, "[H]uman activities are responsible for much of the [planet's] recent warming."

In preview of special, CNN host allowed Beck to repeat comparison of global warming consensus to Hitler eugenics

On the May 2 edition of CNN Newsroom, while previewing his May 2 special, "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck told host Don Lemon that he is doing the special because "the scientific consensus in Europe in the 1920s and '30s was that eugenics was a good idea," adding: "I'm glad that a few people stood against eugenics." Those comments recall remarks Beck made on the April 30 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, in which he likened former [COLOR=green]Vice President Al Gore's fight against global warming to Adolf Hitler's use of eugenics as justification for exterminating 6 million European Jews. :!:

CNN's Glenn Beck to host hour-long global warming smear-fest

A CNN press release declared that Glenn Beck's upcoming "special report" will "deflate what Beck perceives as the media hype surrounding global warming" and "question[] the accuracy of Al Gore's claims in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth." Beck has repeatedly advanced falsehoods related to global climate change, cited debunked scientists to support his doubts that "we're causing" global warming, and regularly attacked Gore.

Beck said Gore using "same tactic" in fight against global warming as Hitler did against Jews

On his radio program, Glenn Beck stated that Al Gore is using "the same tactic" in his efforts to fight global warming that Adolf Hitler used to vilify Jews in Nazi Germany, but Beck said that Gore's "goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United Nations running the world. That is the goal."

Beck, CEI's Horner denounced Gore's work as "science fiction," spread global warming misinformation

On the April 5 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck joined Chris Horner, counsel for the energy industry-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), in denouncing former Vice President Al Gore's award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics, 2006), with Horner saying the film is "pure science fiction." As evidence, Beck cited a New York Times article on global warming -- which, as Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, includes misleading characterizations, a false comparison, and misrepresentations of Gore's statements. Horner also claimed that, "in about a year, it'll be almost 10 years since we've experienced any warming" -- an argument contradicted by NASA surface temperature analyses. He also asserted that Gore "has been saying, for nigh on five years, that we've got 10 years to live," a statement that Gore does not appear to have ever made.

Beck likened Gore to Nazi propagandist, let Inhofe distort his climate change testimony :wtf:

On the March 22 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck allowed Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) to distort former Vice President Al Gore's March 21 testimony before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Meanwhile, Beck himself likened Gore to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels for Gore's statement, during his testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, that he would initiate a "mass persuasion campaign" to urge Congress to act on climate change.


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Yikes, sorry. All that red color above was an error.
My bad. :unsure:

Don't apologize for the red...it made it interesting.

I saw the ad's for this but ignored it. Just another quack getting his money from the big energy industries. There are enough independent sources to debunk this flake. But I am a little annoyed that CNN wastes their time on this. It Just shows how pathetic the national news has become.