Environmental Issues

Media Biased on Global Warming

Media analysts have documented that the network evening news shows largely ignore the views of scientists and environmentalists who do not support the theory that humans are causing global warming.

  • NBC's George Lewis forecasts "wild swings in the weather" from heavy rains to droughts.

  • ABC's Peter Jennings insists that global warming is imminent.

  • Ned Potter of ABC has warned of heat waves, melting glaciers, flooding and tropical diseases.

The media have for the most part ignored critics of the global warming theory.

  • The Media Research Center has found that over the past five years, only two of 48 stories on the evening network news about global warming mentioned the views of scientists skeptical of the theory.

  • Moreover, 41 stories never even mentioned that there is a substantial part of the scientific community which believes global warming theories are pure rubbish.

A significant number of scientists and environmentalists do not believe there has been or will be a global warming effect on earth.

  • A recent poll by the Citizens for a Sound Economy found that state climatologists, by a margin of 44 percent to 17 percent, believe that recent global warming is largely a natural phenomenon.

  • Only 19 percent said weather conditions have been more severe over the past 25 years.

  • Less than a third of the 19 percent attributed any weather change to global warming.

Astrophysicist S. Fred Singer says, "The climate warming over the past 100 years...in no way supports computer models that predict drastic future warming." Dr. Singer says weather satellite observations over the past 20 years show no global warming effect whatsoever.

Source: L. Brent Bozell, III (Media Research Center) "Media Hot Air on Warming," Washington Times, December 10, 1997.

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