Audio: Fox News radio global warming PSAs promoting “An Inconvenient Truth”
posted at 10:50 am on July 20, 2007 by Allahpundit
Oh, the heart-ache. As you’ll see, some of their listeners are frightened and confused, wondering what’s become of their favorite news outlet. Alas, it’s no mystery. Let it serve as a warning to all of us: when the boss has a change of heart, consequences follow. Who knows? If and when the day comes that MM wakes up in a panic over glaciers, you’ll be seeing a wee bit more respect for Chilean sea bass from the big A.
Actually, never mind Murdoch. I blame Shep.
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So do we really need to do anything at all now that hell has frozen over?
Kowboy on July 20, 2007 at 11:03 AM
And the really funny part? The scientific community is really taking the Carbon thing to the wood shed right now… theres been a number of studies discounting this approach…
Sad…
Romeo13 on July 20, 2007 at 11:08 AM
When you said “the boss” I thought you meant Michelle. You had me afeareded! But I should have known; Michelle is “The Boss” in caps.
- The Cat
MirCat on July 20, 2007 at 11:09 AM
The libs were right: no good can come from this nitwit owning huge chunks of media outlets all over the world.
Bright Side: the is now a wonderful business opportunity opening for an actual conservative news network.
Jaibones on July 20, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Gore better run now while it’s hot. Then when it starts to cool he can take credit and he’ll look like a genius.
If he doesn’t, and we don’t legislate according to his pseudo-science, he is going to look rather foolish down the road.
Spirit of 1776 on July 20, 2007 at 11:13 AM
One of the aspects of Gorebal Warming Alarmism that cracks me up:
I laugh uncontrollably everytime I hear enviro-nuts cry about melting glaciers.
THAT IS WHAT GALCIERS DO AFTER AN ICE AGE…THEY MELT!!!
If they aren’t melting…THEN THEY ARE ADVANCING!! Your enviro-nut-get-away-30,000′-mansion-of-logs-cladded-on steel-beams-with-built-in-climate-control-located-in formerly-pristine-wilderness-purchased-by-your-Kennedyesque-trust-fund-might-get-crushed!!
Montana on July 20, 2007 at 11:15 AM
These are so funny they sound like a parody but, I guess they are real, which is sad. John Gibson said he would look into it hopefully he can get the higher ups to stop it.
Complete7 on July 20, 2007 at 11:16 AM
Very cryptic, AP.
And all this time I had been spelling it ‘an incoherent truth’.
It’s waaay too easy.
NSFW
locomotivebreath1901 on July 20, 2007 at 11:32 AM
Who said Fox is a conservative news outlet? There are no conservative channels. They don’t exist. Anyone in TV had to have gone to some artsy college to get into TV. That is where the filter is.
jihadwatcher on July 20, 2007 at 11:32 AM
Do what the boss says and you get to keep your job.Ideology in the workplace? Happens all the time. Sux though.
captivated_dem on July 20, 2007 at 11:34 AM
American Scientist has a cover story on what they call the “poster child” mountain of Gore’s little flick.
The shrinking snows of Kilimanjaro.
It’s curious that Kilimanjaro’s sister mountain, and sister ice cap is Mount Kenya. The two mountains are the furthest points apart on the planet still able to be seen from each other by the naked eye, but Mt. Kenya is not EVER mentioned in the Global Warming fear-bytes. The two mountains sit by the equator, and altho’ in tropical environments, both have ice caps that sit at about 19,000 feet, in permanent year-round temperatures of about -3 F.
Mt. Kenya’s ice cap hasn’t shrunk anywhere near the amount Kilimanjaro’s has – and as the American Scientist points out, their are two reasons for this: 1) Amboseli Game Park around Kilimanjaro and the surrounding areas have been under drought conditions for over decade. No snow, no glacier build-up. There is never MELTING. Ice is being lost not by warming (impossible at 19,000 feet) but by sublimation into the cold dry air. Mount Kenya has had better rainfall/snow fall over the same time period, thus its glacier has only slightly diminished since the turn of the century 2) Mt Kenya has a steep slope, with its glacier forming gradual edges that can pick up new snow. Kilimanjaro has a peculiar ice cap that is essentially a big brick, with thirty food high sheer sides, sitting on barren brown dirt, separated from the “ring glacier” that is the glacier most photographed from afar. New snow falls on dark earth and can melt/evaporate just at the surface level, thus hard to accumulate or it falls on top of the brick. The prediction is the current formation will over time crumble to a more traditional shaped glacier as its current form can’t be maintained.
So, Kilimanjaro isn’t losing ice cap from Global Warming, but by simple drought. Mt. Kenya’s glacier-garlanded ragged peaks, visible from Kilimanjaro’s crater rim exposes the lie. Even with an exaggeratedly ridiculous hypothetical ten degree rise in temperatures, the ice frozen at -3 F at 19,000 feet will stay ice – below freezing, still solid at 7 degrees F. There is no, and has not been any melting off the bitter high-altitude slopes of Kilimanjaro. Impossible.
naliaka on July 20, 2007 at 11:41 AM
I blame Chicken Little O’Reilly, who’s been in the Global Warming bag forever.
Speaking of PSAs, if you have a moment and a strong stomach, check out this B.S. whipped up for the Lewis and Clark bicentennial. (Click Hear Radio Promotions > Lost Trail.) Their expedition was a liberal paradise of teenage mothers and slaves that was just “too good to last.”
Barf.
saint kansas on July 20, 2007 at 11:47 AM
Just to prove Naliaka’s point…Fill your ice trays and place in your freezer and leave them for about a month…check them at 2 weeks and you got ice but after about a month no Ice.
DoctorDentons on July 20, 2007 at 12:05 PM
Oh, sure, picking cherries now. But here I sit in Chicago in the brutal global warming heat without the benefit of the Canadian glaciers that once dominated the entire Great Lakes region and brought us lovely, cool summer breezes.
Jaibones on July 20, 2007 at 12:08 PM
Can there be any greater way to show respect for Chilean sea bass than to order it smothered in a fresh marinara sauce? I think not!
Blake on July 20, 2007 at 12:16 PM
Allah is a fan of The Little River Band.
That’s boss, man.
Jeff G on July 20, 2007 at 12:28 PM
Haha.
And in media. That’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
Spirit of 1776 on July 20, 2007 at 12:32 PM
Faux News Channel?
Bridgette Gabriel tells of a Saudi prince bragging to a convention in Dubai about he calling Rupert Murdoch during the riots in Paris. Faux News was saying “Muslims” to describe the rioters. The Saudi prince made one phone call to RM and thirty minutes later the term used was the infamous “youths” used by the liberal press. [I've been searching C-Span for the last 15 minutes or so and cannot find it... but it is there, I watched it live]
I’ve watched Faux News slide to the left ever increasingly over the last year or so. Most evening I can’t stand to watch any program but Brit Hume’s (Unless of course MM is subbing for B.O.).
With all that is going on in Iraq, why can’t a few stories about the good in Iraq that say… Michael Yon is reporting find its way onto the air. If not on Fox, where do we get fair and balance and relevant? I’m just thankful that paris hilton didn’t fart in public or something recently…
Swinehound on July 20, 2007 at 12:56 PM
There is a big difference between being green and open-minded to scientific facts, and drinking the kool-aid of the global-warming-frenzy crowd.
I try to be environmentally sensitive. I recycle everything that I use that is recyclable. I drive a car that gets very good gas mileage and minimize my trips. I turn off lights when I’m not in the room. I don’t use the AC unless it is really hot (open windows and use fans instead).
I do this more to conserve energy than out of any concern over global warming. I make a pretty good living and don’t do this because I can’t afford to spend the money, rather it just makes sense given the large population and the finite resources we have at our disposal.
I’m also a technical guy, took a lot of physics in college. I don’t buy the BS that Gore is spewing. The science points to cyclical warming and cooling, most likely tied to solar activity (solar wind, not just hotter solar temps). CO2 levels trail the warming/cooling pattern, so they seem to be effect rather than causal, so the whole greenhouse gas scare seems to be completely overblown.
Just saying that “An Inconvenient Truth” is a POS. Let’s get some real science out there, not this rubbish.
Snidely Whiplash on July 20, 2007 at 1:48 PM
And that is why it is insulting when these politicians/Hollywood bimbos who are energy and environmental pigs, argue that they are entitled to a pass and to lecture us to boot because they are rich (i.e., have money to throw away on carbon credit scams).
Blake on July 20, 2007 at 2:01 PM
A lot of really really stupid leftists who believe that, unless you’re relentlessly liberal, you’re conservative, whereas, the more I live, the opposite seems far more likely.
Kensington on July 20, 2007 at 2:42 PM
I knew I didn’t like Shep before, that that video was the nail in his coffin. What a complete piece of garbage. He’s as bad as the G man.
RightWinged on July 20, 2007 at 3:54 PM
G-man on July 20, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Phooey, forgot the word “not” after “would”
G-man on July 20, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Look at the picture folks, just look at the picture. The man is out of his mind and desperatly needs help!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on July 20, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Hmm, and here I thought he already looked foolish.
IrishEyes on July 20, 2007 at 7:05 PM
Haha!
The question is: Is Gore actually able to tell the difference between Chilean sea bass and SCROD?
Probably not. Picking exotic fish over local catches is just for ego-stroking, show off conspicuous consumption, not the palate. He’s paying for the TRANSPORTATION of the fish in the price. Frozen air freight perhaps? Did Gore buy carbon off-sets to justify the oil burned to deliver his meal?
naliaka on July 21, 2007 at 3:40 PM