Bringing the Heat on Warming

The Heartland Institute website accuses Gore of a "snowjob" on global warming.The Heartland Institute website accuses Gore of a "snowjob" on global warming.Chicago Sun-Times Business Editor Dan Miller, who previously used his editorial position to promote the writings of corporate pollution-apologist Steven Milloy, is now lending his name to a bit of global warming skepticism disseminated by the Heartland Institute, a corporate-funded think tank where he used to work. Miller's cover letter accompanies a mailing to journalists in which Heartland public affairs director Tom Swiss trashes Al Gore's documentary about the issue, "An Inconvenient Truth," as an "alarmist or kind of an extreme example" of reporting on the issue, while "The Great Global Warming Swindle," which takes the opposite view, is praised as "a European documentary by Martin Durkin that won a lot of awards." (Evidently Swiss didn't think to mention Gore's awards, which include an Academy Award and the Nobel Prize.) Bob Steele, an ethics scholar at the Poynter Institute for media studies, sees some problems with Miller's eagerness to flack for anti-environmentalist causes. "He is actively urging a particular examination, and I would suggest a point of view, on a substantive public policy issue," Steele said. "He's also pitching it in a problematic way to other journalists, using his journalistic connections in doing so."

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You hear at TV and read in the newspapers Global warming is a big problem.. everybody speaks about it (i refer also to the politicians that are putting this thing in their campaigns now) but no one does something to stop this problem.. they just speak or are trying to give advices but they don't follow their advices.
The usual people don't care so much about this big problem and when someone is trying to do something they discourage him. Let's make the people know more about global warming and the negative effects that it brings!

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Fresh Enviromental Designs, Concepts and Ideas

If PRWatch.org really was concered about spin they would be covered the lack of equal media time given to skeptics of global warming. THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON THIS ISSUE WHAT-SO-EVER!!! Oxygen is the leading contributor to climate change, not CO2. There is no need to enact costly legislation- climate change is natural!!

THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON THIS ISSUE WHAT-SO-EVER!!! Oxygen is the leading contributor to climate change, not CO2.

If there is "no scientific consensus on this issue whatsoever," then how can you say oxygen is the leading contributor to climate change? Seems to me you would need a scientific consensus to support that, wouldn't you?