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Southern California's public radio station, KPCC, and its program "Marketplace" will host a daylong townhall Webcast next Wednesday to salve the wounded psyches of global warming paranoiacs everywhere. The symposium is entitled "Climate and Sustainability: Moving By Degrees," and is "aimed at bringing together journalists and the public online and at Southern California Public Radio’s (SCPR) Crawford Family Forum to decipher fact from fiction, to learn how our scientific understanding has evolved, and to understand where politics, science and business agree and diverge on how to create a sustainable future."

Southern California's public radio station, KPCC, and its syndicated program "Marketplace" will host a daylong townhall Webcast next Wednesday to salve the wounded psyches of global warming paranoiacs everywhere. The symposium is entitled "Climate and Sustainability: Moving By Degrees," and is "aimed at bringing together journalists and the public online and at Southern California Public Radio’s (SCPR) Crawford Family Forum to decipher fact from fiction, to learn how our scientific understanding has evolved, and to understand where politics, science and business agree and diverge on how to create a sustainable future."

That's right: this public radio station has its own venue where it can stage its own version of news, which it will do by inviting only those scientists, activists and journalists who are sympathetic to The Inconvenient Cause. Those attending:

Dr. Michael E. Mann, Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Review

Andrew Revkin, award-winning New York Times Dot Earth blogger

Joe Romm, Center for American Progress and ClimateProgress.org blogger

Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres

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Naomi Oreskes, author of “Merchant of Doubt”

Dr. Stephen Schneider, Stanford University

Elizabeth Kolbert, award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker

According to the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media:

Program managers say the Marketplace workshop, in concert with the Gary Comer Global Agenda, is designed to address “the need for public understanding and tough reporting around energy, climate, and the economy.” They say the disappointing Copenhagen international talks last December and “high-profile scandals and corrections” involving leaked e-mails and IPCC’s mistaken Himalayan glaciers report have left the public “confused and bewildered,” with public opinion largely out of sync with scientific understanding.

Who's bewildered? It's the climate realists who've historically received the "tough reporting" from this bunch while the Society of Environmental Journalists have carried the alarmists' water. But despite all the media's efforts to frame the narrative, Copenhagen failed, Climategate clarified, and the public is in sync with reasonable doubt. When they promote their questionable agenda to call for massive increases in energy costs (cap and trade), that's not confusion; that's discernment.

topics:
Mainstream Media, Global Warming, Media Bias, Climate Change, Climategate, Michael Mann, Stephen Schneider

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1DandyTroll| 6.1.10 @ 8:08PM

Whom will it be most embarrassing for the radio station or the individual person attending or the pro-AGW listener who likes a balanced debate?

PCC| 6.1.10 @ 10:09PM

Initally I read "Marketplace workshop" as "Marketplace worship".

An understandable mistake, I think.

Nick| 6.1.10 @ 11:40PM

You mean Jimmy Hansen isn't participating?

How about Phil Jones and the rest of the Global Warming Hoaxers at the University of East Anglia?

David| 6.2.10 @ 6:23AM

Public Radio, another waste of taxpayer dollars. Close it down and let those so inclined to sponsor it without government funding. A vehicle for the Rich (Al Gore) waiting for Cap and Trade to make himself a billionaire. Close the doors on public funding and have at it.

Carol| 6.3.10 @ 11:26PM

Re Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

The only ones who are lying about tobacco are the anti-smokers. They are guilty of flagrant scientific fraud for ignoring more than 50 studies over a period of over 20 years, which prove that human papillomavirus infects at least a quarter of all non-small cell lung cancers. It doesn't require a university to figure out that ignoring evidence is fraud! And because the anti-smokers' studies are based on nothing but lifestyle, they're designed to cynically exploit the circumstance that smokers and passive smokers are more likely to have been infected, in falsely blame tobacco.

http://www.smokershistory.com/hpvlungc.htm

Furthermore, those so-called "opponents" she denounces are nothing but phonies, because they never mention HPV, or anything else that really refutes the anti-smokers. Their real job is to drown out the real critics, with the collaboration of lying media, to create the false impression of dissent, and their weak strawman arguments are intended to provoke provoke public derision. It's the anti-smokers themselves who give the phonies a forum, and censor the real critics, and then lie to us that they presented "both sides of the issue"!

And she is concealing the fact that the same anti-smoker who lobbied for the EPA to take up the issue of secondhand smoke, John C. Topping Jr., subsequently went on to found the Climate Institute.

http://www.smokershistory.com/NCCIA.htm

And she's concealing the fact that Seitz' association with the tobacco industry was really to monitor Stanley Prusiner's work on prions, which was being funded by R.J. Reynolds after the Rockefeller Institute, with which Seitz had been associated, stopped doing so. (Why was smokers' money being used to fund prion research in the first place? Apparently purely as a crony favor.) Any so-called "historian of science" who can't ferret out the fact that Seitz was merely doing site visits on Prusiner, and had nothing to do with tobacco research, is nothing but a propagandist hack!

smokershistory.com/prions.htm

Yours truly,
Carol Thompson
THE REAL OPPONENT WHO IS RUTHLESSLY CENSORED