RE: Global warming: a major factor in Rita and Katrina?
It seems Mr. Bazell has a history of pushing junk science. Go here and look for this:
junk TV news of the day II: NBC Nightly News junks out on trans fats - NBC senior "science" correspondent Robert Bazell reported on trans fats Monday evening. But as is evidenced by this MSNBC version of Bazell's report, Bazell was way off base in scaring viewers that trans fats cause 30,000 premature deaths each year -- or that trans fats have been linked with any adverse health effects. Bazell's chief source on trans fats, Harvard's Walter Willet, is almost single-handedly responsible for pushing the trans fats scare. Click for my report on trans fats.
You'll pardon me if I view his screeching on global warming with a jaded eye. There have been several discussions of this topic posted on the BP before and from better sources. Those posts contradict what Mr. Bazell reports. Or do they?
Typical of Bazell's hysterics, the article is full of factual information that doesn't necessarily support his hypothesis. There are plenty of qualifications from the scientific sources he quotes, words like "at the moment" or "right now." Then Bazell finishes it up with his trademarked Chicken Little summary that is chock full of weasel words:
"It's global warming that many experts say results partly from humans releasing greenhouse gases -- possibly creating even more violent storms in the future.'
One might almost suspect Mr. Bazell doesn't even really believe what he writes and has left himself a handy semantic escape hatch. In fact, there isn't much to contradict since Bazell simply throws some inconclusive or tangential data at us, wraps it up with a sensationalist bow, and leaves the rest up to the very fertile imaginations of his liberal acolytes everywhere.
junk TV news of the day II: NBC Nightly News junks out on trans fats - NBC senior "science" correspondent Robert Bazell reported on trans fats Monday evening. But as is evidenced by this MSNBC version of Bazell's report, Bazell was way off base in scaring viewers that trans fats cause 30,000 premature deaths each year -- or that trans fats have been linked with any adverse health effects. Bazell's chief source on trans fats, Harvard's Walter Willet, is almost single-handedly responsible for pushing the trans fats scare. Click for my report on trans fats.
You'll pardon me if I view his screeching on global warming with a jaded eye. There have been several discussions of this topic posted on the BP before and from better sources. Those posts contradict what Mr. Bazell reports. Or do they?
Typical of Bazell's hysterics, the article is full of factual information that doesn't necessarily support his hypothesis. There are plenty of qualifications from the scientific sources he quotes, words like "at the moment" or "right now." Then Bazell finishes it up with his trademarked Chicken Little summary that is chock full of weasel words:
"It's global warming that many experts say results partly from humans releasing greenhouse gases -- possibly creating even more violent storms in the future.'
One might almost suspect Mr. Bazell doesn't even really believe what he writes and has left himself a handy semantic escape hatch. In fact, there isn't much to contradict since Bazell simply throws some inconclusive or tangential data at us, wraps it up with a sensationalist bow, and leaves the rest up to the very fertile imaginations of his liberal acolytes everywhere.
posted by Anonymous | 9:01 AM
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