Emperor Left Out in the COLD as Other Penguins Get U.S. Protection

The Center for Biological Diversity is considering going to court to fight for the slighted Emperor penguin. Brendan Cummings of the center said, “This is [a] species that is most ice dependent, that is likely to be most impacted by global warming…Refusing to take action on the emperor penguin equates to business-as-usual climate policy from the Bush administration”

Top TV Networks Spread False Arctic Sea Ice Scare

The summer’s network TV stories fit an ongoing pattern of media hype about climate change where outlets report alarming, speculative predictions but do not follow up by reporting when the predictions fail to materialize.

Global Warming Censored, a study published by the Business & Media Institute in 2008, showed the major TV network news programs rarely included dissenting voices in the climate debate. In media reports on global warming, alarmists were overwhelmingly more often quoted than those with more skeptical views, even when alarming predictions failed to materialize.

On average, NBC featured nearly 13 alarmists for every skeptic presented. ABC did a slightly better job with a seven-to-one 1 ratio, while CBS’s ratio was nearly 38 to one, the study found.

‘Warmest October’ Claim Was Wrong, NASA Admits

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies—known as GISS—was forced to admit it committed an egregious error when it publicly claimed October 2008 was the warmest October in history.

It turns out October 2008 was nowhere near a record. Global temperature measurements of the Earth’s lower atmosphere by NASA satellite instruments show it was fairly typical compared to temperatures over the past 30 years and significantly cooler than average temperatures over the past seven years.