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March 27, 2006
Coordinated Effort?
Iain Murray at the Corner, notices some unsurprising coordination regarding the latest alarmism related to Global Warming:
There's a definite whiff of a co-ordinated scare campaign over global warming at the moment. There have been some questionable doomsday papers in the major science journals Science and Nature, complete with policy recommendations in the body of the science, front page articles in the Washington Post, cover stories from Time magazine, and a major new advertising campaign from Environmental Defense and, shame on them, the Ad Council. All these attacks seem dedicated to scaring Congress into some sort of action to force Americans to cut back on their economy-sustaining use of energy.
As soon as I saw the Time Magazine cover this weekend and then the Bagley cartoon in the Sunday Trib, I said pretty much the same thing.
The data hasn't changed, so why the push? It's simple really. We've gone from an optimistic society that lived by the creed " No news is good news," to a cynical one with the mantra "Good news is no news." Right now, there just isn't much going on, so they need to create it.
Posted by Jonathan at March 27, 2006 9:27 AM
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