Tradition!

The Washington Post is establishing a firm 21st Century tradition: when it comes to Global Warming, take guidance from Faux News, “Fair and Balanced”.

Multiple times in the pastweek, both in reporting and on the editorial page, The Washington Post continued a seemingly iron tradition of coloring Global Warming science by ensuring that skeptics and deniers have their say as well, without providing any indication to the

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These two are quoted with their serious sounding titles that make them sound more authoritative, when it comes to Global warming, than those eco-leftist architecture students and professors. Does The Washington Post provide any context provided about how they’re among the normal talking heads brought to the table to provide the “other side” to the overwhelming majority of scientists who have looked at the Theory of Global Warming, tested it, and found that (sadly) it passed the tests? Of course not.

Tainting Jim Hansen

Monday saw an article about Jim Hansen’s 20th anniversary of speaking out forcefully in public on Global Warming issues, Turning up the Heat on Climate Issue

There have been hotter days on Capitol Hill, but few where the heat itself became a kind of congressional exhibit. It was 98 degrees on June 23, 1988, and the warmth leaked in through the three big windows in Dirksen 366, overpowered the air conditioner, and left the crowd sweating and in shirt sleeves.

James E. Hansen, a NASA scientist, was testifying before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. He was planning to say something radical: Global warming was real, it was a threat, and it was already underway.

Hansen had hoped for a sweltering day to underscore his message.

“We were just lucky,” Hansen said

This is really a pretty good article, setting up readers up for reporting on testimony to Congress and speech to the National Press Club later than day.

A good article which, of course, had to have balance.

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