Manitoba Newspaper Editorializes 'Global Cooling'

[Michael Hardner]

The Interlake Spectator

As winters get harsher and the snow piles up, more and more scientists are now warning of global cooling. That's the message that more and more scientists want to get out as the global warming message slowly disappears from the mainstream media stage.

On his website "NoTricksZone" Peter Gosselin lays out a list of 31 international scientists in the fields of climate and meteorology who disagree with AGW science (man-caused global warming) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecasts, and are projecting much cooler weather for the next one to three decades.

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"Expect global cooling for the next two to three decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been," says Don Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University. Easterbrook points out that 30-year cooling trends in the past including 1945-1977, 1880-1915 and 1790-1820 are similar to trends that the earth could face in the next 30 years.

Dr. Noel Keenlyside from the Leibniz Institute says a new computer model developed by German researchers, reported in the journal Nature, suggests the cooling will counter greenhouse warming.

I'm aghast that the community of Interlake only has a fringe newspaper reporting on matters of import. I would have hoped for better for them. As such, I wrote the following:

John Coward's editorial of Jan 6th is misinformed at best and deceptive at worst. He quotes a few scientific fringe dwellers who are disputing Global Warming (a theory supported by, conservatively, 90% of climate scientists) and then talks about how much press coverage the issue gets, as if that matters.

You would do well to have your journalists not spend time promoting fringe science - UFOs, Global Cooling and so on - if you want to be considered a real newspaper.

Michael Hardner

[Shwa]

The Interlake Spectator

I'm aghast that the community of Interlake only has a fringe newspaper reporting on matters of import. I would have hoped for better for them. As such, I wrote the following:

They are on the canoe.ca network, fringe maybe, but on the fringe of a large, supportive network owned by Quebecor, Inc.

http://www.canoe.com/corpo/en/

http://www.qmisales.ca/digital.html

Maybe not so fringe?

Added in edit:

http://www.qmisales.ca/digital/sections/newspapers_community.html

Edited January 6, 2011 by Shwa

[Michael Hardner]

They are on the canoe.ca network, fringe maybe, but on the fringe of a large, supportive network owned by Quebecor, Inc.

http://www.canoe.com/corpo/en/

http://www.qmisales.ca/digital.html

Maybe not so fringe?

Added in edit:

http://www.qmisales.ca/digital/sections/newspapers_community.html

Well, let's hope they care that their readers (hard copy or online in Toronto) demand good information from the Spectator.

[M.Dancer]

I don't see anything particularly wrong with the editorial or your response to it. It is not a function of editorials to adhere to any one side, but to express the opinion of the editorial writer.

The last thing anyone should want from a free press is orthodoxy.

[Michael Hardner]

I don't see anything particularly wrong with the editorial or your response to it. It is not a function of editorials to adhere to any one side, but to express the opinion of the editorial writer.

The last thing anyone should want from a free press is orthodoxy.

Orthodoxy is one thing, but not every debate is good debate. We can talk about whether this sentence should or shouldn't have a period at the end of it for months if we want to. There are pressing matters that the press needs to press, and Global Cooling likely isn't one of them.

Imagine if the guy was a 9.11 troother, for example. That's fine if the company wants one of those heading up their newspaper - that's their own business - but people should know that's what they're doing and not have the impression that normal people are in charge. Presumably the community doesn't want fringe dwellers, Bermuda Triangle enthusiasts and bigfooters deciding what gets in their paper.

[M.Dancer]

Presumably the community doesn't want fringe dwellers, Bermuda Triangle enthusiasts and bigfooters deciding what gets in their paper.

I presume readers make that choice themselves by reading it or not.

[wyly]

The Interlake Spectator

I'm aghast that the community of Interlake only has a fringe newspaper reporting on matters of import. I would have hoped for better for them. As such, I wrote the following:

sounds just like my local tabloid-the Calgary Herald ...

[Michael Hardner]

I presume readers make that choice themselves by reading it or not.

I'm helping people who might not otherwise notice. I'm a helper.

[M.Dancer]

I'm helping people who might not otherwise notice. I'm a helper.

Well good for you. Give yourself a pat on the back.

[Michael Hardner]

Well good for you. Give yourself a pat on the back.

Doing it now...

[Smallc]

Just for clarity, the Interlake isn't a community, but a region. The newspaper originates from the community of Gimli.