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You’ve Got To Be Joking.

by Flyovercountry ( 80 Comments › )
Filed under Humor, Media at May 31st, 2011 - 5:30 pm

I read this today, and sprayed coffee on a formerly clean computer monitor, so be forewarned. Apparently, CBS wishes beyond all hope to win the main stream media race to reach the very bottom and most obviously biased news organization contest. They must have declared all evidence of intelligence will heretofore be hidden. They must be hard at work trying to woo Will Ferrell to the network in order to read the news as his Ron Burgandy Character. The reason for my laughter today? CBS reported in a serious manner today that Sarah Palin is going to create traffic accidents by not supplying the press with her schedule. It would seem as though the main stream media feels that Governor Palin owes them a complete accounting of her time, so that they can adequately destroy her image in any endeavor on which she embarks.

Driving around the country in this big ass bus is a little to hard for the investigative professionals in our national press corps keep up with. MSNBC has at least shown that it is possible to go too far with biased reporting by firing Keith Olberman, and suspending Ed Shultz. They have limits, weak as they may be. CBS, not so much. America is having accidents on its roadways according to CBS, and it is Sarah Palin’s fault. Beyond the lunacy of a supposed news gathering organization whining about the lack of cooperation of a private citizen who has not asked for, nor shown any expectation of receiving their publicity, why should Governor Palin give these imbeciles so much as a seconds thought? 30 months ago, they savaged her in their little and petty club. I can still remember Charlie Gibson looking down his nose through his prop glasses like a college professor lecturing Governor Palin on the proper definition of the Bush Doctrine which by the way, he got incredibly wrong. Tina Fey’s admittedly funny performance on SNL is still quoted by a cackling media and Arnold, not Kennedy, Schwartzenegger as though it were actually attributable to Palin. Personally, I don’t blame Mrs. Palin one bit for not wanting anything to do with a group who has demonstrated ill will and a complete lack of fairness. I don’t believe she will be able to win the Presidency, nor even the Republican Nomination while having a complete press avoidance strategy, but that is the business of Sarah Palin, and nobody else.

In short, quit your whining CBS. and try objectively reporting the news for a change, people might actually watch your dumb little news show then.

Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

Willis Eschenbach Busts CBS News

by snork ( 72 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Media at May 13th, 2010 - 8:30 am

Remember when blogs had spheres, and busted CBS news for running with fake stories that were never properly vetted? As I recall, there was this blog; little green soccer? Little green something. Anyway, it’s still happening at Watts Up With That. Willis E. saw a story that smelled fisky, and started asking questions. The story is about a R&D firm in San Fransisco that supposedly had received a large Gates foundation grant to pursue R&D on “geoengineering”, specifically a plan to create clouds in order to stop global warming (!) by blasting sea water into the atmosphere.

CBS says:

So it was that after the inconclusive results of the Copenhagen Conference, word came that Bill Gates had invested at least $4.5 million into geo-engineering research. The idea: Find a way to reflect solar energy and filter carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Now we’ve got an early look at one such company, which reportedly is developing a way to seed clouds by spraying seawater into the air.

The machines, developed by a San Francisco-based research group called Silver Lining, turn seawater into tiny particles that can be shot up over 3,000 feet in the air. The particles increase the density of clouds by increasing the amount of nuclei contained within. Silver Lining’s floating machines can suck up ten tons of water per second. If all goes well, Silver Lining plans to test the process with 10 ships spread throughout 3800 square miles of ocean. Geoengineering, an umbrella phrase to describe techniques that would allow humans to prevent global warming by manipulating the Earth’s climate, has yet to result in any major projects.

Well, in their own article, CBS backpedals with an “update” (not a correction):

A PR representative from Edelman later sent me this note from Ken Caldeira ofthe Carnegie Institution for Science: “Bill Gates made a grant to the University of Calgary to support research in possible unique solutions and responses to climate change. Administrating this research funding, David Keith of the University of Calgary and I made a grant to Armand Neukermanns for lab tests to investigate the technical feasibility of producing the fine seawater sprays required by the Latham cloud whitening proposal, one of many proposals for mitigating some of the adverse effects of climate change. This grant to Neukermanns is for lab tests only, not Silver Lining’s field trials.”

So now, Gates isn’t supporting the silver lining project, just some lab research at UC. So Willis goes to the silver lining project website, and finds:

The Silver Lining Project is a not-for-profit international scientific research collaboration to study the effects of particles (aerosols) on clouds, and the influence of these cloud effects on climate systems.

Well, that sure sounds impressive. Unfortunately, the web site is only four pages, and contains almost no information at all.

Not satisfied with this, he emails them, and gets:

Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:

info@silverliningproj.org

Hello? This thing on?