[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Coming Soon to ... St. Paul?

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Coming Soon to ... St. Paul?
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1199252891.shtml


   The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the 126 year old Cincinnati
   Post has ceased publication, leaving the Enquirer in charge. It sounds
   like something that might soon happen here, to the St. Paul Pioneer
   Press.
   Even corporate greed isn't powerful enough to make the Pioneer Press
   change course, or at least stop overtly offending so many potential
   customers. Looking at today's (Jan 1) paper, if anything, the bias
   might be getting worse.
   The gem of the Editorial page features an article by Bill McKibben on
   global warming. Basically, we are all dead men, with CO[2] already
   above the maximum calculated by NASA scientist James Hansen. Arctic
   ice is melting furiously as is Greenland. But there may be hope if we
   take the actions recommended by Al Gore.
   This might have been a fine article if printed five years ago. But the
   Editorial Page editors seem not to know that IPCC has admitted that
   melting of sea ice is not accelerating, that any sea level rise this
   century will roughly equal that of the last century. Worse, they seem
   not to know that James Hansen's work, the crux of McKibben's article,
   has been largely discredited, and by real atmospheric scientists.
   Nobody quotes him anymore. Nor do the editors realize that Al Gore has
   jumped the shark.
   Even if you believe in man-made global warming, surely you can more
   credible articles than this to publish.