Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is 'Telling Us What to Think'
TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose 'the fraud of global warming.'
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/2008...
These people are rightly marginalized. It's not a matter of the righteous "free-thinking" minority here (a la 9/11 truth), it's just the hardcore of the mainstream capitalist whackos trying to preserve their way of life. They push so hard to the ridiculous extreme of this debate that they succeed in keeping inaction, doubt or "hope" possible. It's like saying that the media is liberal. It's bullshit, all the facts are against it and people who say it are either lying or dangerously self-deluded. Yet here we are, continuing to respond because they are so persistent (and well-funded and cold-blooded).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...
(the skeptics) are gathered in New York this week for a conference aimed at challenging the idea that a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank funded by energy and health-care corporations as well as conservative foundations and individuals, the 2 1/2 -day session poses a stark contrast to the near-unanimous chorus of concern expressed by top U.S. politicians and most of the scientific mainstream.
Several climate scientists and environmental advocates poked fun at the meeting. Frank O'Donnell, who heads the watchdog group Clean Air Watch, said the conference "looks like the climate equivalent of Custer's last stand. They seem to have tried to find every last skeptic on Earth and put them in one hotel off Broadway."
Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters, said he was not surprised that roughly 500 participants had gathered at the meeting. "I'm sure that the flat Earth society had a few final meetings before they broke up."
And Princeton University geosciences professor Michael Oppenheimer said that with the media and many politicians now ignoring the climate skeptics, "they have to get together to talk to each other, because nobody else is talking to them."
On a more serious note, Oppenheimer questioned why the conference attendees were not addressing the genuinely muddier aspects of climate science, such as what level of sea rise the world faces and whether methane released from the tundra would exacerbate warming in the years to come.