Media Missing the Plot on ‘Climate Gate’: It's the Fraud, Stupid!

Christopher C. Horner
Big Government
Nov. 24, 2009

To the credit of the New York Times, Associated Press and Washington Post "” reliable outlets for promoting global warming alarmism, protecting those who craft it and marginalizing those who point out its weaknesses and excesses "” they all ran stories in the past 48 hours addressing the documents somehow obtained from the computers of a UK university serving as the warming movement and industry's Mother Ship. My great surprise is even greater because these outlets have demonstrated a pattern of only giving ink to embarrassing controversies after a week or so, once it appears that damage control is needed and the alarmists have gotten their story straight.

I documented this pattern in a book published one year ago this month, subtly titled "Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed." The title says it all, including all that surely seems to have been affirmed by the documents posted, by "anonymous" on a Russian server and otherwise covering his tracks.

Since this affirms, not "reveals", the scandal that so many have been explaining is the global warming industry, it also raises the issue of how can each of these media outlets still miss the plot? Well, they are doing so in a fashion so uniform, and in the face of such outrageous exposition of the scandal that is unfolding, that I conclude it is nonetheless yet another exercise in damage-control.

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