An MNN.com green blogger experienced what, for many of us, would be a living nightmare when he spent five long minutes in a Fox News studio on Earth Day. Jim Motavalli, who is also a New York Times contributor and author of “Feeling the Heat”, was invited to discuss global warming with Fox host Neil Cavuto and was treated the way virtually all liberal guests are treated on Fox – interrupted, condescended to and talked over.
From MNN.com:
Fox had gotten hold of a report—accurate enough—that sea ice has been thickening in Antarctica.
Indeed it is, and there are many possible explanations, but the Antarctica information in isolation is not all that helpful. The Arctic and Greenland ice sheets have seen unprecedented melting. According to Joseph Romm, the former Energy Department leader who blogs at ClimateProgress.org, the rate of glacial loss is a century ahead of where we thought we’d be at this point.
All the inland glaciers on the planet are melting, and Glacier National Park in Montana is now predicted to be ice-free by 2020. This is the warmest decade on record, and 2005 was the warmest year on record (2007 and 1998 are tied for second). Sea level could rise five feet by the end of the century, according to the prestigious journal Nature.
Despite Cavuto repeatedly asking Motavalli a question and then proceeding to answer it himself (stupidly) in the midst of Motavalli’s answer, the MNN blogger amazingly kept his cool. Cavuto displayed his ignorance about what global warming actually means and how it works, and Motavalli calmly laid out the facts.
Kudos to Jim Motavalli. I don’t think I could even walk on to a Fox News set without my head exploding.
Link [MNN]
