Associated Press Report On Global Warming Is “Propaganda”

Many scientists who are skeptical of the assertion that climate change is the result of man’s activities are criticizing a December Associated Press report on global warming, calling it “irrational hysteria,” “horrifically bad” and “incredibly biased.”

“If the issues weren’t so serious and the ramifications so profound, I would have to laugh at it,” said David Deming, a geology professor at the University of Oklahoma who has been critical of media reporting on the climate change issue.

Seth Borenstein, author of the article – “Obama Left with Little Time to Curb Global Warming” – wrote that global warming is “a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid,” and that “global warming is accelerating.”

FOXNews reports:

“He says global warming is accelerating. Not only is it continuing, it’s accelerating, and whether it’s continuing that was completely beyond the evidence [said Deming].”

“The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising. Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980.”

Deming said the article is further evidence of the media’s decision to talk about global warming as fact, despite what he says is a lack of evidence.

“Reporters, as I understand reporters, are supposed to report facts, “Deming said. “What he’s doing here is he’s writing a polemic and reporting it as fact, and that’s not right. It’s not reporting. It’s propaganda.

“This reads like a press release for an environmental advocacy group like Greenpeace. It’s not fair and balanced. . . .”

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