{"id":168800,"date":"2010-01-09T04:54:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T09:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/2010\/01\/09\/rolling-stone-attacks-%e2%80%98climate-killers%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98derailing-efforts-to-curb-global-warming%e2%80%99.html"},"modified":"2010-01-09T04:54:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T09:54:23","slug":"rolling-stone-attacks-%e2%80%98climate-killers%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98derailing-efforts-to-curb-global-warming%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/168800","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stone Attacks \u2018Climate Killers\u2019 \u2018Derailing Efforts to Curb Global Warming\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julia A. Seymour
\nBusiness & Media Institute<\/a>
\nFriday, January 8th, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

Even popular liberals can come under fire from the media if they
\noffer heretical views on global warming<\/a>, which many in the media
\npromote with near-religious fervor.<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone magazine went after 17 global warming<\/a> dissenters on Jan. 6, hyperbolically labeling them \u201cThe Climate Killers<\/a>.\u201d Topping the list was Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Obama<\/a> supporter and media darling Warren Buffett<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The magazine criticized Buffett for \u201cdoing far more than
\nbad-mouthing climate legislation \u2013 he\u2019s literally banking
\non its failure\u201d by adding 1.28 million shares of ExxonMobil to
\nhis books and acquiring a railroad that hauls coal.<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone editor Eric Bates also told MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d that Buffett \u201ctrashed climate change<\/a> legislation calling it a huge tax saying it will cost jobs.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s not even news, CBSNews.com reported in September that the Obama<\/a> administration said cap and trade \u201cwould cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year.\u201d<\/a> But Obama<\/a> didn\u2019t make the list of \u201dKillers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Heritage Foundation estimated that capping carbon would act as an energy tax of nearly $2,000<\/a>
\non every American household. Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise
\nInstitute has said \u201cit would destroy tens of millions of
\ngood-paying jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on the Rolling Stone list were a number of predictable targets for left-wing vitriol, from News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch<\/a>
\nand ExxonMobil\u2019s Rex Tillerson to Sen. James Inhofe and retired
\nphysicist Fred Singer. Each person on the list was given a nasty
\nmoniker like \u201cthe Fake Protestor\u201d or \u201cThe Know
\nNothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

With this sidebar to its \u201cAs the World Burns\u201d cover
\nstory, Rolling Stone continued its one-sided crusade to stop global
\nwarming. On Nov. 11, 2009 writer Naomi Klein<\/a> made the case for climate reparations<\/a>
\nin the magazine. Back in 2007, Rolling Stone was entertaining
\npredictions from climate extremist James Lovelock (founder of the Gaia
\ntheory) who said that by 2100 global warming<\/a> will kill 6 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Business & Media Institute has documented how a number of
\nmedia outlets favor global warming<\/a> alarmism rather than including other
\nviewpoints in news reports. For every dissenter appearing on the
\nnetworks, there were 13 alarmists<\/a>
\nairing their views. By censoring the global warming<\/a> debate, the news
\nmedia often leave viewers with the impression that the \u201cscience
\nis settled.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those same networks ignored the November 2009 climate e-mail scandal \u201cClimateGate<\/a>\u201d for two weeks despite the looming climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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