{"id":6338,"date":"2011-06-23T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=6338"},"modified":"2011-06-23T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:29:00","slug":"pbs-gets-gored-in-climate-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6338","title":{"rendered":"PBS Gets Gored in Climate Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://www.andrewplimmer.com/ghost-commerce/">https://www.andrewplimmer.com/ghost-commerce/</a> Oh, the irony.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/contact-four/">Buy Alprazolam No Prescription</a> Yesterday, Rolling Stone magazine posted Al Gore&#8217;s 7,000 word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/climate-of-denial-20110622\" target=\"_blank\">essay<\/a>, which is critical of the media&#8217;s (and President Obama&#8217;s) handling of climate change. That same day, the highly respected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/politics\/jan-june11\/globalwarming_06-22.html\" target=\"_blank\">PBS news show<\/a> hosted a discussion of Gore&#8217;s essay. Instead of inviting non-partisan environmental scholars or political scientists to analyze the essay&#8217;s premises, PBS went with three agenda-pushing wonk\/pundits that reflected the left wing\/right wing spectrum.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/resources/"></a> One of them was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/scholar\/112\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Green<\/a>, a resident scholar\u00a0at the conservative\/libertarian-oriented American Enterprise Institute. \u00a0At one point in the discussion, Gwen Ifill, the PBS host, unintentionally gave him an opening to hijack the discussion. \u00a0According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/politics\/jan-june11\/globalwarming_06-22.html\" target=\"_blank\">transcript<\/a>, here&#8217;s the exchange where Green does his best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Morano<\/a> imitation. What follows requires serious unpacking. But first read it through:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://ramedicare.com/contact-us/">https://ramedicare.com/contact-us/</a> <strong> <a href="https://raceflowdevelopment.com/services/">Buy Soma 350 Mg Online</a> GWEN IFILL: <\/strong>Are we having the right argument? Is &#8212; are the climate skeptics being given too much, too little attention?<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/our-menu/"></a> You have Andy Revkin at The New York Times, an environmental reporter, seriously upset over the fact that the U.N. IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, let a report on renewable energy be written by the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.secpeinvestments.com/commercial/"></a> And this is a huge scandal of unprecedented proportions.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/openingdaypricing/"></a> <strong> <a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/plumbing-repair/"></a> GWEN IFILL: <\/strong>Is that true?<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://forgive123.com/watch/"></a> So, I think now we are beginning to have the right debate. It&#8217;s no longer, oh, there&#8217;s only a few cranks and, oh, there&#8217;s a few people with tinfoil hats. There&#8217;s a real problem with the politicization of climate science. And now, if we have that debate, I think that&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/1city/">https://worklivelaos.com/1city/</a> <strong> <a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/contact-5/"></a> <span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Green, of course, thinks its a terrific &#8220;argument&#8221; to have. And then he uses Andy Revkin in an egregiously misleading fashion to help make his argument: &#8220;You have Andy Revkin at The New York Times, an environmental reporter, seriously upset over the fact that the U.N. IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, let a report on renewable energy be written by the Sierra Club.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/press-releases/"></a> Just about everything about that statement is factually incorrect. Or as Revkin himself <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/22\/a-deeper-look-at-the-presidency-climate-policy-and-politics\/?src=tptw\" target=\"_blank\">puts it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/contact-four/">https://rgprincipal.com/contact-four/</a> I&#8217;m cited (inaccurately) by Green for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/22\/2011\/06\/15\/a-deeper-look-at-an-energy-analysis-raises-big-questions\/\">my concerns on the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on renewable energy<\/a>. (He mashes up the Sierra Club with Greenpeace and misses my main concern about the report, which was over the lack of transparency, not the unsurprisingly involvement of an environmental group.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-conditioning/">Buy Prednisone Online Without Prescription</a> In the next breath, Green grossly exaggerates: &#8220;And this is a huge scandal of unprecedented proportions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/payment/">https://dentalprovidence.com/payment/</a> At this, Ifill&#8217;s BS antenna goes up: &#8220;Is that true?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 
 To which Green conveniently ignores her and moves right along to expand on this &#8220;huge scandal&#8221; and &#8220;why\u00a0we are beginning to have the right debate. It&#8217;s no longer, oh, there&#8217;s only a few cranks and, oh, there&#8217;s a few people with tinfoil hats. There&#8217;s a real problem with the politicization of climate science. And now, if we have that debate, I think that&#8217;s&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this point, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/experts\/WeissDaniel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Weiss<\/a>, who is director of climate strategy for the Center for American Progress, cuts in and soon the debate lapses into the\u00a0<em>both sides are guilty narrative.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Game over. Green wins because a discussion that was supposed to be about whether Obama is doing enough on climate change morphs into a discussion of the latest &#8220;huge scandal&#8221; in the climate concerned community and the politicization of climate science by both sides.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, the exchange is a perfect distillation of not just the impoverished public climate debate (represented by ideological combatants on TV), but also the cynical tactics employed by some partisans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the irony. Yesterday, Rolling Stone magazine posted Al Gore&#8217;s 7,000 word essay, which is critical of the media&#8217;s (and President Obama&#8217;s) handling of climate change. That same day, the highly respected PBS news show hosted a discussion of Gore&#8217;s essay. Instead of inviting non-partisan environmental scholars or political scientists to analyze the essay&#8217;s premises,&#8230;<span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6338\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2557,2790],"tags":[835,846,1250],"class_list":["post-6338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-politics","category-journalism","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-politics","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}