In the article, Obama Left with Little Time to Curb Global Warming, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein wrote that global warming is "a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid," and that "global warming is accelerating."
"If the issues weren't so serious and the ramifications so profound, I would have to laugh at it," said David Deming, a geology professor at the University of Oklahoma who has been critical of media reporting on the climate change issue.
Deming, in an interview, took issue with Borenstein's characterization of a problem he says doesn't exist.
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"The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising. Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980."
Deming said the article is further evidence of the media's decision to talk about global warming as fact, despite what he says is a lack of evidence.
Read the article, Scientists Call AP Report on Global Warming 'Hysteria.'
And Al Gore won a Nobel Prize for this.
This is exactly what has happened with the theory of evolution. It is assumed and anyone in disagreement ridiculed.
I consider myself a moderate on ecology. But what happened to scientific dialogue? This is pc, liberal spin. And now with BO in the White House, expect more liberal media spin to bolster nonsensical actions by our woefully inexperienced new lead executive.
