- Climate celebrity James Hansen admitted in Natural Science Magazine that playing to peoples' fears about global warming catastrophe was "appropriate at one time." A devastating admission ignored in Hansen's 2006 '60 Minutes' appearance. Later we learn the 60 Minutes representative, Pelley, was biased toward big money interests. comparing those on the realist side to "Holocaust Deniers."
- 60 Minutes interviewed Hansen in 2006, and left out his quarter of a million dollar grant from John Kerry's wife's left wing foundation (the Heinz Foundation, established by the deceased ketchup magnate).
- CQ, 9/26/06: "Many in the media dwell on any industry support given to so-called climate skeptics, but the same media completely fail to note Hansen’s huge grant from the left-wing Heinz Foundation.
The foundation’s money originated from the Heinz family ketchup fortune. So it appears that the media makes a distinction between oil money and ketchup money.
- “60 Minutes” also did not inform viewers that Hansen appeared to concede in a 2003 issue of Natural Science that
- the use of ‘extreme scenarios’ to dramatize climate change
- “may have been appropriate at one time” to drive the public's attention to the issue.
Why would “60 Minutes” ignore the basic tenets of journalism, which call for objectivity and balance in sourcing, and do such one-sided segments?
- The answer was provided by correspondent Scott Pelley. Pelley told the CBS News website that he
justified excluding scientists skeptical of global warming alarmism from his segments because he considers skeptics
- to be the equivalent of ‘Holocaust deniers.’”"
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