{"id":225501,"date":"2010-01-25T08:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=30444"},"modified":"2010-01-25T08:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:01:31","slug":"the-new-york-times-desperate-blatant-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/225501","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times: Desperate, Blatant Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>By Alan Caruba\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Once, very long ago, I used to be \u201ca stringer\u201d for The New York Times. My articles would appear in the New Jersey section and an occasional short book review would make it into the legendary newspaper.<\/p>\n

My Father read the The Times more faithfully than an ayatollah reads the Koran or a Hasidim reads the Torah. Little did he know that, during the early years of Stalin\u2019s regime, a Times reporter named Walter Duranty deliberately failed to report the deaths of millions of people in the Ukraine because Soviet communism demanded they obey or die.<\/p>\n

Starting in the 1980s, The Times has led the greatest fraud of the modern era, the global warming hoax. It went through a succession of reporters who turned out articles that all asserted various claims attributed to a dramatic increase in the Earth\u2019s temperature that was not happening. At one point, it published a story that the North Pole was melting.<\/p>\n

The leading advocate of the global warming fraud has been Al Gore, a former Vice President who has enriched himself selling bogus \u201ccarbon credits\u201d and investing in \u201crenewable energy\u201d businesses. His so-called documentary, \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d, was filled with so many inaccuracies that a British court ruled it could not be shown in its schools without informing students of them in advance.<\/p>\n

We know now, thanks to the \u201cClimategate\u201d revelations, that a handful of scientists, working at the behest of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deliberately distorted or invented climate data to further the fraudulent claims.
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\nThey were associated with the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Great Britain, the Pennsylvania State Earth System Science Center, as well as U.S. government agencies such as NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Most are currently being investigated for alleged abuses of the positions they held and questionable actions in which they engaged.<\/p>\n

The release of emails detailing their conspiratorial efforts to advance their false data and suppress any that represented a contrary point of view destroyed what little credibility there was for the recent UN Conference on Climate Change held in Copenhagen. It collapsed like a circus tent.<\/p>\n

So why, on Sunday, January 24, did The New York Times publish an editorial titled \u201cThe Case for a Climate Bill\u201d in an effort to support the insupportable, the Senate\u2019s Cap-and-Trade legislation?<\/p>\n

The bill is superficially intended to put limits on greenhouse gas emissions, primarily carbon dioxide, that are alleged to be \u201ccausing\u201d global warming. It is, in reality, a massive tax on the use of energy, harmful in countless ways to the nation\u2019s economy and a burden on all producers and consumers.<\/p>\n

Cap-and-Trade has no basis in science because carbon dioxide plays no role whatever in climate change and because the Earth has been in a cooling cycle since 1998; a cycle that legitimate climate scientists predict will last another decade or two.<\/p>\n

It takes an enormous amount of gall to support this legislation claiming \u201cThe long-term trend in greenhouse gas emissions is up (the decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record.)\u201d No, a decade in the 1930s was the warmest. The last decade saw a constant decrease in temperature, leading to the record-breaking blizzards, expanding glaciers, and other indications that the Earth is cooling.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally there\u2019s the question of credibility: Mr. Obama said in Copenhagen that the United States would meet at least the House\u2019s 17 percent target\u201d of reduced CO2 emissions said The Times.<\/p>\n

President Obama has virtually no credibility left and had to flee the Copenhagen conference in order to avoid being snowed in there and unable to land in Washington, D.C. which was also expecting a snowstorm!<\/p>\n

This blind and desperate refusal to face the facts, let alone to report them, will ultimately destroy the famed \u201cnewspaper of record\u201d and, if that happens, I will not mourn its passing.<\/p>\n

Alan Caruba<\/a> writes a daily post at Warning Signs<\/a>. A business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Read more thought provoking articles at Warning Signs<\/a><\/p>\n

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