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G_j

(40,366 posts)
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 07:08 PM Dec 2016

Weather Channel to Breitbart: Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans

https://weather.com/news/news/breitbart-misleads-americans-climate-change

Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans

Published Dec 6 2016 02:16 PM EST

Global warming is not expected to end anytime soon, despite what Breitbart.com wrote in an article published last week.

Though we would prefer to focus on our usual coverage of weather and climate science, in this case we felt it important to add our two cents — especially because a video clip from weather.com (La Niña in Pacific Affects Weather in New England) was prominently featured at the top of the Breitbart article. Breitbart had the legal right to use this clip as part of a content-sharing agreement with another company, but there should be no assumption that The Weather Company endorses the article associated with it.

The Breitbart article – a prime example of cherry picking, or pulling a single item out of context to build a misleading case – includes this statement: "The last three years may eventually come to be seen as the final death rattle of the global warming scare."

In fact, thousands of researchers and scientific societies are in agreement that greenhouse gases produced by human activity are warming the planet’s climate and will keep doing so.

Along with its presence on the high-profile Breitbart site, the article drew even more attention after a link to it was retweeted by the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

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Weather Channel to Breitbart: Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans (Original Post) G_j Dec 2016 OP
if possible....sue the fuckers.... dhill926 Dec 2016 #1
Earth vs. Breitbart shenmue Dec 2016 #2
Funny how they have all found their mouths post-election malaise Dec 2016 #3
Breitbart Trogs seem to have a highly inflated sense of their own significance. MrModerate Dec 2016 #4
 

MrModerate

(9,753 posts)
4. Breitbart Trogs seem to have a highly inflated sense of their own significance.
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:14 AM
Dec 2016

While to the rest of the world they're largely pajama-wearing basement-dwellers.

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