Fox News reports on 7 shots fired at skeptical climate scientists’ building – ‘Animosity in the climate wars’

Watch Fox News video here: https://mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2017/05/03/53361/fnc-specialreport-20170503-johnchristyshots Media Matters Reports (edited for accuracy): On the May 2 edition of Special Report with Bret Baier, host Bret Baier introduced a segment on the shooting as evidence that “animosity in the climate change wars is hitting new lows.” During the segment, correspondent Doug McKelway  reported that Christy “got seven bullet […]

No NY Times, Arctic ice is not ‘vanishing’

Via: http://junkscience.com/2017/05/no-nytimes-arctic-ice-is-not-vanishing/ Here’s the fake news headline: Here’s the reality: According to NOAA, Northern Hemisphere sea ice has declined somewhat since 1980, but it certainly is not “vanishing”: And when you consider that NOAA has a pre-1980 sea ice record, you might reasonably wonder what all the fuss us about. That’s why the NYTimes is called […]

Paul Ryan touts non-existent EPA staffing cuts in budget deal

By Mark Hand House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) took credit Wednesday morning for cutting the number of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees, saying Republican leaders negotiated an omnibus budget deal Sunday night that would reduce the EPA employee count to 1989 levels. “We reduced the EPA staffing levels to pre-Obama, back to 1989. So we knocked […]