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Guest News Brief by Kip Hansen  —  24 May 2020   The New York Times has an amusing feature called the Climate Section.  It has a neat newsletter (called ClimateFwd: ) that it will send you by email headlining its...

From the YGBFKM department comes this…this…thing. No words. Beyond parody: CNN taps Greta Thunberg for expert coronavirus panelby Brad Polumbo, Washington Examiner The brave, hard-hitting journalists over at CNN...

New Brief by Kip Hansen – 6 March 2020   The NY Times’ Lisa Friedman continues to misrepresent the EPA’s proposed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” rule, making the same unsubstantiated and...

News Review by Kip Hansen – 4 March 2020   The NY Times has been at it again – this time printing bald-faced inaccuracies (some might call it lying….). Hiroko Tabuchi, a climate reporter for The New York Times,...

This article on Grist (h/t to James Taylor, The Heartland Institute) tries to point out how “terrible” the last decade was due to “climate change”...

Guest “implied face palm” by David Middleton Hat tip to MMontgomery via Charles the Moderator. From the “No Schist Sherlock Files”… This Rolling Stone article reads like the Josh “Gasland”...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I kept hearing so much about the Australian bushfires being the result of “climate change” or “global warming” that I thought I’d take a look at just what’s...

Guest “are you fracking kidding me?” by David Middleton Researchers unearth cost-effective method for finding shale gasNew method approximates available gas in untapped areas of Marcellus Shale region using well...

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The Columbia Journalism Review,  “The voice of journalism”, has been organizing and promoting “a project co-founded by CJR and The Nation aimed at strengthening the media’s focus...

From The Daily Caller A climate scientist corrected a liberal reporter on Twitter Tuesday for suggesting a warming climate is causing hurricanes to worsen...

It was recently reported that journalism lost a lot of jobs this year, and again in July. After looking at this piece from the UK Telegraph, where the journalist couldn’t separate fantasy from reality, taking the word...

Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen   Those of you who closely watch the media — newspapers, broadcast & streaming  news, national magazines, national public radio — may have noticed that all the news about...

Guest smack-down by David Middleton Funny thing… The writing of this post was disrupted by a preview of the Green New Deal in Dallas over the past 5 days… More on this later...

The Guardian’s editor has just issued this new guidance to all staff on language to use when writing about climate change and the environment…and it is full-on alarmism...

Guest geological storytelling by David Middleton In my recent post, How Climate Change Buried a Desert 20,000 Feet Beneath the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor, we discussed the rifting that enabled the opening of the Gulf of Mexico...