http://mediamatters.org This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Climate Change en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/research/200911090032 Newsweek column, George Will claimed that global warming "has not increased" for 11 years and suggested that the world may be cooling in order to attack an October 31 Newsweek profile of former Vice President Al Gore. Scientists and statisticians reject Will's claim that recent temperatures are evidence that there is no global warming as they have rejected many of Will's previous claims about global warming.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911090032 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:08:59 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911090028 Wall Street Journal op-ed that "[c]utting carbon emissions will likely increase water scarcity, because global warming is expected to increase average rainfall levels around the world." In fact, Lomborg's argument ignores that while scientists predict that climate change may increase precipitation globally, they believe some areas will experience more flooding because of the rainfall, whereas others will be disproportionately affected by drought.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911090028 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:12:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911090021 The Washington Post published Will's November 8 column bragging that "a Pew poll shows that only 57 percent of Americans think there is solid evidence of global warming, down 20 points in three years." Will has previously misrepresented sea ice data and forwarded other global warming misinformation in the pages of the Post.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911090021 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:57:55 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911050040 Investor's Business Daily editorial falsely claimed that Al Gore "still claims" hurricanes "are increasing in frequency and intensity" as a result of global warming and that "[w]hat has happened in the past three years is that such claims have been thoroughly debunked as the earth has cooled, possibly for decades hence." In fact, Gore has said that there is no consensus that warming is causing more frequent hurricanes, and the author of the study IBD claims has "debunked" predictions about the effect of warming on tropical cyclone (TC) intensity has stated that his findings "do not contradict the recent climate change/TC linkage literature."]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911050040 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:41:14 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200910290030 New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin was "thinking seriously about capping families at one child to reduce carbon emissions." Limbaugh has previously advanced a similar falsehood while suggesting that Revkin "just go kill" himself; in fact, Revkin made it clear that he was engaging in a "thought experiment, not a proposal" which did not involve "capping families."]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200910290030 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:39:20 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200910280010 Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens advanced the claim made by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner in SuperFreakonomics -- which has recently come under criticism by economists and climate scientists for what they say are distortions in the book's climate change chapter -- that, in Stephens' words, "sea levels will probably not rise much more than 18 inches by 2100." However, this claim is apparently based on projections made in 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that did not include future changes in ice flow and therefore do not represent recent developments in climate science observations indicating that increased and accelerated ice sheet loss will cause sea levels to rise by more than previously projected.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200910280010 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:01:56 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200910200054 Investor's Business Daily editorial that New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin "proposed" instituting carbon credits for having fewer children, and then asked why, if Revkin "really thinks that humanity is destroying the planet," he doesn't "just go kill [him]self and help the planet by dying." In fact, in both the blog post and panel discussion to which the IBD editorial referred, Revkin specifically stated that he was engaging in a "thought experiment, not a proposal."]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200910200054 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:05:24 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200910200042 K.C. & A.H.S. http://mediamatters.org/research/200910200042 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:18:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200910010030 Washington Post column, George Will claimed that "evidence" of climate change is "elusive" and that scientists are overstating the threat of warming when they say -- in the words of a September 21 New York Times article Will criticizes -- that a recent "plateau" in temperatures has "no bearing" on the long-term warming trend; in fact, scientists routinely present strong evidence of long-term warming and its consequences -- including a September 2009 United Nations report Will himself cited that says "rapid environmental change is underway with the pace and the scale of climate change accelerating." Will has previously been criticized by the World Meteorological Organization, his own Post colleagues, and others for misusing scientific data to claim that warming may not be occurring.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200910010030 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:39:42 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200909250035 New York Times article reporting that "global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years" is in conflict with President Obama's comments at the United Nations that "[i]f we continue down our current course, every member of this assembly will see irreversible changes within their borders." But Times reporter Andrew C. Revkin, in the article Hannity misconstrued, also reported that the recent temperatures have "been seized upon by skeptics" but that scientists say short-term climate variability "has no bearing on the long-term warming effects of greenhouse gases" and that "trying to communicate such scientific nuances to the public -- and to policy makers -- can be frustrating."]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200909250035 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:33:53 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200909240021 http://mediamatters.org/research/200909240021 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:47:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909210032 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909210032 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:38:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200909170036 http://mediamatters.org/research/200909170036 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:07:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200907290049 http://mediamatters.org/research/200907290049 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:19:28 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200907230024 http://mediamatters.org/research/200907230024 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:59:35 EST