MSM Wankery and Climate Change

Okay, a fair amount of work is going into providing the links from my daily program and I'm going to need to see more mails at oldpunk@cjlo.com for this to at least seem worthwhile. Comments, suggestions, disagreements or anything else you can think of.

Today we started the show with a piece about Mark Halperin, editor of Time magazine and his tacit support of the hate-filled wanker known as rush limpballs (I'm exagerrating? go look at what he was saying just today about Haiti http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/14/limbaugh-haiti-tampons/ ). See this link from Glennzilla for support for this kind of idiocy from Mark: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/21/halperin/ 

Here's another example of Halperin's hypocracy and bias: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001120012

And some regular old evil from rush: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130018

The following are mostly storie that were on the list to be covered but when Jennifer comes in the pace of stories slows down as we generally engage in chit and some chat. Have to admit I enjoy it and it lightens my mood. some of this can be depressing, but hey, we're adults right? We can take it. We really have no choice. Anyhow here's the links starting with someone asking are scientists at fault for some of the confusion about climate change? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8451756.stm

Climate change and the oceans: http://csr-news.net/main/2010/01/13/climate-change-brings-an-ocean-of-change/

Sea level? http://climate.nasa.gov/blogs/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowBlog&NewsID=239

Missing climate targets now diminishes options later: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100111/full/news.2010.6.html?s=news_rss

Resistance to meeting those targets coming from guess where? http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/science/earth/08climate.html?_r=1

We're not doomed or anything but it does seem like we're headed for the 7th inning sttretch and the good guys had better put a couple on the board now so a comeback won't be so unlikely or even impossible come the 9th!  /baseball metaphor

Cheers all!