<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">There is an institute for public accuracy? Are you sure? </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">I think Fox News is often the one that sets the fire to the trees.</div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Ted Moffett <starbliss@gmail.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, July 3, 2012 6:42 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] Institute for Public Accuracy: "Media Miss the Forest for the Burning Trees"<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>Thanks Ted. Two points.<BR><BR>First, once media decided to become a business and focus on
profit<BR>they -- like all businesses -- have become "conservative." Not<BR>necessarily politically conservative but they don't want to upset<BR>anyone and they need to maintain the myth that there are two sides to<BR>ever issue, precisely because they don't want to distance themselves<BR>from scores of viewers.<BR><BR>Second, I wonder what others will say about the analogy between<BR>tobacco and global warming. If one applies the same arguments one<BR>should be able to say the same thing about the connection between<BR>smoking and lung disease as one says about the connection between<BR>human behavior and global warming. Which is just to say that<BR>anti-global warming arguments are general skeptical arguments that<BR>apply to EVERYTHING.<BR><BR>So, Paul, why believe that smoking causes lung disease if you don't<BR>believe that human carbon consumption has an impact on global warming?<BR><BR>Joe<BR><BR>On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Ted Moffett <<A
href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> Institute for Public Accuracy<BR>> 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045<BR>> (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * <A href="mailto:ipa@accuracy.org" ymailto="mailto:ipa@accuracy.org">ipa@accuracy.org</A><BR>> ___________________________________________________<BR>><BR>> Tuesday, July 3, 2012<BR>><BR>> Extreme Weather and Global Warming: "Media Miss the Forest for the<BR>> Burning Trees"<BR>><BR>> NEIL <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>deMAUSE</SPAN>, <A href="mailto:neil@demause.net" ymailto="mailto:neil@demause.net">neil@demause.net</A>, http://twitter.com/#!/neildemause<BR>> Neil <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>deMause</SPAN> is a Brooklyn-based journalist who has written extensively<BR>> about climate change coverage for
<SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>FAIR's</SPAN> magazine Extra! -- including the<BR>> article "The Fires This Time: In coverage of extreme weather, media downplay<BR>> climate change." http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4366<BR>><BR>> He said today: "Despite overwhelming evidence that climate change is<BR>> causing dramatic changes in weather patterns -- from increasingly deadly<BR>> heat waves and wildfires to hurricanes and tornadoes -- media coverage has<BR>> bent over backwards to avoid making the connection between extreme weather<BR>> events and the warming climate. Instead, reporters have largely hidden<BR>> behind the truism that there's no way to say that any given event was caused<BR>> by climate change. Yes, in the same way that it's hard to show that any<BR>> given person wouldn't have gotten cancer without smoking cigarettes -- but<BR>> that doesn't mean that journalists should avoid reporting
that smoking<BR>> kills."<BR>><BR>> JOE <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>ROMM</SPAN>, <A href="mailto:jromm@americanprogress.org" ymailto="mailto:jromm@americanprogress.org">jromm@americanprogress.org</A>, http://ClimateProgress.org<BR>> <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>Romm</SPAN> is a senior fellow at American Progress, edits Climate Progress and<BR>> holds a <SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Ph</SPAN>.D. in physics from MIT. He recently wrote the piece "Hell And<BR>> High Water Strikes, Media Miss the Forest for the Burning Trees."<BR>> http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/06/27/507119/hell-and-high-water-strikes-media-miss-the-forest-for-the-burning-trees<BR>><BR>> <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>Romm</SPAN> said today: "It is a basic conclusion of climate science that as<BR>> the average temperature gets warmer, heat waves -- which are extremes on top<BR>> of the average -- will get more intense.
For the same reason, heat waves<BR>> will last longer and cover a larger region. Recent research further links<BR>> Arctic warming, and especially the loss of Arctic ice, to more extreme,<BR>> prolonged weather events 'such as drought, flooding, cold spells and heat<BR>> waves.'<BR>><BR>> "Since droughts are made more intense by higher temperatures, which dry<BR>> out the soil, and by earlier <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>snowmelt</SPAN>, more intense droughts have long been<BR>> predicted to occur as the planet warms. Since wildfires are worsened by<BR>> drought and heat waves and earlier <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>snowmelt</SPAN>, longer wildfire seasons and<BR>> more intense firestorms has been another basic prediction.<BR>><BR>> "We also know that as we warm the oceans, we end up with more water<BR>> vapor in the atmosphere -- 4 percent more than was in the atmosphere just
a<BR>> few decades ago. That is why another basic prediction of climate science has<BR>> been more intense deluges and floods.<BR>><BR>> "Scientists have already begun to document stronger heatwaves, worsening<BR>> drought, longer <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>widlfire</SPAN> seasons, and more intense downpours. Global warming<BR>> has 'juiced' the climate, as if it were on steroids. The question is not<BR>> whether you can blame a specific weather event on global warming. As Dr.<BR>> Kevin <SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>Trenberth</SPAN>, former head of the Climate Analysis Section of the National<BR>> Center for Atmospheric Research told the New York Times, 'It’s not the right<BR>> question to ask if this storm or that storm is due to global warming, or is<BR>> it natural variability. Nowadays, there’s always an element of both.'"<BR>><BR>> For more information, contact at the Institute for
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