Bolt: A million blogging warnings to a lazy media

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But what has boosted my blog numbers far more is another issue the MSM won’t cover fairly, preferring to preach rather than inform.

Global warming is still so ingrained a faith in journalism that to question it is not just proof of stupidity, but evil. But again the blogs - not just mine, but several overseas - have filled the gap, fact-checking the warming preachers, and telling readers of the dissenting scientists that the MSM won’t touch.

Take this week alone. If Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery has said global warming will leave Perth parched, I can run a graph showing its dams haven’t been so full in years.

If Al Gore says Bangladesh will drown under rising seas, I can show that satellite measurements prove the country is growing, not shrinking.

If the UN’s climate scientists warn of doom, I can link to a new peer-reviewed study showing none of their predictions seem to be coming true.

If some other alarmist says the North Pole is almost gone, I can run satellite pictures from Wednesday showing much more ice there now than at this time last year.

All this would seem obsessive if done in a newspaper. But on a blog, which need please few and has space for plenty, it can be done with less risk - and even more effect. In fact, I’ve noticed results I’d never have got if I wrote only newspapers columns.

Many Liberal politicians tell me they’ve drawn on the blog for evidence to get their party to get tougher in resisting the global warming hysteria.

ABC’s Lateline this week reported through clenched teeth that this blog - and another by scientist Jennifer Marohasy - were now “hosting a new scientific debate” by repeatedly running data proving the world had stopped warming, at least for now.

But more than that, blogs like mine have given frustrated academics, even from India and Canada, a place to send dissenting material on global warming that much of the media prefers to ignore. A debate the media often says is “over” is on again. Thanks to blogs.

Again, I ask: Where else in the media do you get that debate? On the ABC? In The Age?