{"id":12559,"date":"2008-06-20T17:42:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T23:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12559"},"modified":"2008-06-20T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T23:42:18","slug":"democracy-now-host-blames-midwest-floods-on-global-warming-karl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12559","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Democracy Now!&#8221; host blames Midwest floods on global warming [Karl]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lefty broadcaster <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/opinion\/367711_amy20.html\">Amy Goodman<\/a> steps away from the mic to tap out some\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0global warming hysteria for the proletariat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The floodwaters are rising, swamping cities, breaching levees. Tens of thousands are displaced. Many are dead. No, I am not talking about Hurricane Katrina, but about the Midwest United States. As the floodwaters head south along the Mississippi, devastating communities one after another, the media are overflowing with televised images of the destruction.<\/p>\n<p>While the TV meteorologists document &#8220;extreme weather&#8221; with their increasingly sophisticated toolbox, from Doppler radar to 3-D animated maps, the two words rarely uttered are its cause: global warming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Goodman was so busy typing that she missed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessandmedia.org\/articles\/2008\/20080620170338.aspx\">ABC and NBC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601124&amp;sid=avss.VGJYfbI&amp;refer=home\">Bloomberg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSN19435659\">Reuters<\/a>, the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/18\/AR2008061803371_pf.html\">Washington Post<\/a><\/em> and others mentioning global warming in their flood coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, when National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Tom Karl &#8212; the main quoted source for these claims &#8212; is pinned down by (of all outlets) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/20\/us\/20flood.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">New York Times<\/a>, he has to concede that no single period of flooding rains or other extremes can be blamed on global warming.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 That is because <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/story?id=2655929\">weather is not climate<\/a>, as the very same media outlets will remind us when it <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/node\/9990\">suits their agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lefty broadcaster Amy Goodman steps away from the mic to tap out some\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0global warming hysteria for the proletariat: The floodwaters are rising, swamping cities, breaching levees. Tens of thousands are displaced. Many are dead. No, I am not talking about Hurricane Katrina, but about the Midwest United States. As the floodwaters head south along the Mississippi, devastating communities one after another, the media are overflowing with televised images of the<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12559\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}