(01/01/07) The media has been warning about climate change for decades but they can’t decide whether we’ll die from warming or cooling.

Back in 1975 the New York Times warned of cooling but now Mr. Climate Change, Al Gore, warns of warming. Our government spends near $4B a year in climate research but their result is unpredictable.

The Media Research Center’s Business & Media Institute researched the print media on climate change back until the late 1800’s. Since 1895 the New York Times, Time magazine and Newsweek, reported three or four different climate shifts. Most recently, publications that warned global warming today predicted an ice age in the 1970’s.

Global warming today is like a religion. Campus intellectuals profess it as gospel and those who focus on hard science, rather then the unfounded scientific alarmism hyped by the media, are mocked as Bushites or anti-environmentalists.

Alarmists use the media to look at every natural disaster as being linked with global warming regardless of the connection. The media’s advocacy adds to misinformation on this and other environmental matters.

Maybe there’s some consolation in the idea that man-made warming might just cancel out the natural cooling trend. But then again the alarmists will need another fear to promote; like the sky is falling. Will that sell hybrid cars or wind mills and justify more costly mandates/regulations?

Frank Mazur
South Burlington

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Frank Mazur, a small business owner and former state representative, is chair of the advisory board of Vermont FreedomWorks.