The National Post, a conservative Canadian newspaper based in Toronto, has embarrassed itself once again. The paper routinely prints outrageously stupid things about global warming in a cheeky series of articles entitled ‘The Deniers’ and in regular columns by Lorne Gunter and Peter Foster.
DeSmogBlog regularly points out The National Post’s inaccuracies and outright lies about climate change, and now they’re taking issue with the paper’s so-called reporting from the climate deniers gathering in New York City.
From DeSmogBlog:
This latest dispatch by Foster “reporting” from the climate deniers gathering in New York further undermines the Post as a legitimate media outlet. So one-sided and erroneous is their editorial position on climate science that it is best described as journalistic malpractice.
While the Post felt it important to send Foster to cover the Heartland denier’s conference, they of course neglected to send any reporters to cover the UN climate conference last year in Poland, or the current gathering of 2,000 leading climate scientists in Denmark.
I suppose it is simpler to avoid mixing ideology with any actual information.
DeSmogBlog’s Mitchell Anderson goes on to point out all of the newsworthy information – and actual facts – being revealed at the real climate conference in Copenhagen, including the doubling of the projected rise in sea level by 2100, thanks to ballooning emissions, which the National Post failed to cover. Here’s a snippet:
There is also growing evidence that oceans are losing their ability to mop up our emissions mess. A study in 2007 revealed that marine absorption of carbon in the Atlantic had halved in only ten years. Similar results were reported recently in Sea of Japan.
“It is a tremendous surprise and very worrying because there were grounds for believing that in time the ocean might become ’saturated’ with our emissions – unable to soak up any more, ” reported the BBC. If true, that would “leave all our emissions to warm the atmosphere”.
But what the hay? I’m sure those folks at the National Post and Heartland Institute have it all figured out. After all, who are you going to believe – a bunch of egghead scientists, or courageous skeptics like Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley?
Of course, global warming deniers barely even try to support their viewpoint with facts anymore. All of their energy is spent twisting actual climate science around, hatching conspiracy theories, ignoring the mounting evidence that proves them wrong and pointing fingers at Al Gore, the biggest target of their irrational ire. The fact that Vaclav Klaus is the Heartland Institute’s Leading International Figure for the second year in a row speaks louder than words.
Link [DeSmogBlog]
