Monday, June 8, 2009

The Eco-Warriors Of The MSM?

The third annual International Conference on Climate Change took place in Washington last week. But there is an excellent chance you didn't hear about it. Why? Because the focus of the conference was to present climate scientists and economists who refute fashionable climate alarmism. So the mainstream media didn't show up.

"At the conference, the Cato Institute’s Patrick Michaels suggested that the success of alarmism had a lot to do with the absence of fact-checking in the media. But while that may be true, it seems as much due to the fact that many in the media regard themselves as eco-warriors. As such, they never let the facts stand in the way of a good, scary environmental story."