Interesting alarmist podcast from the height of CO2 hysteria (Feb. '07): CBC News In Depth: Spin Cycles

The PR firms on the other side are, in [Jim Hoggan's] mind, behaving unethically, and he uses words like "criminal" to describe their behaviour. Hoggan oversees a lively climate change blog that contains lots of useful information on the groups leading the fight against the Kyoto Protocol and global warming.

Around the 14:50 mark at the podcast, Mark Hertsgaard suggests that journalists should tell the public who to believe on global warming, since Joe Q. Public is "busy" and the journalists are allegedly good "analysts of information".

Speaking of journalists and global warming, here's one of my favorite quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger

Mr. Munger says that Carbon Dioxide is what plants eat. And that he does like it a little warmer than colder. Charlie Munger goes on to say about climate change, "So what we are really talking about with global warming is dislocation. Dislocations could cause agony though. The sea level rising would be resolved with enough time and enough capital. I don't think it's an utter calamity for mankind though. You'd have to be a pot-smoking journalism student to think that."

About Mark Hertsgaard

Mark Hertsgaard, an independent journalist based in San Francisco, is the author of five books that have been translated into sixteen languages. He covers climate change for Vanity Fair, The Nation, Time and Die Zeit and has written for many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines.

About James Hoggan (mentioned above), from a Huffington Post comment section

DeSmogBlog

Funded by James Hoggan (James Hoggan & Associates) and John Lefebvre (Former President of Netseller Group)
So who is James Hoggan? He's a public relations man, based in Vancouver. His firm, James Hoggan and Associates, is positioned as a feel-good local operation with clients in all the "right" public and private sectors. He also sits on the board of the David Suzuki Foundation.

One of his side efforts is a blog operated out of Hoggan and Associates. Funded by retired Internet bubble king John Lefebvre, the blog has one full-time and three part-time staff. They spend their time tracking down and maliciously attacking all who have doubts about climate change and painting them as corporate pawns.
There has been no mention on the blog of James Hoggan's client list. They include or have included the National Hydrogen Association, Fuel Cells Canada, hydrogen producer QuestAir, Naikun Wind Energy and Ballard Fuel Cells. Mr. Hoggan,is a Businessman.
But it is as a climate commentator that Mr. Hoggan gets carried away. On The Denial Machine, Mr. Hoggan is allowed to go on at some length about how climate skeptics are not true scientists, are not qualified, or have no expertise.
Lefebvre, was arrested by FBI agents at his Malibu home and charged with conspiring to promote illegal gambling by transferring billions of dollars of cyberspace bets placed by U.S. citizens with offshore gaming companies.