2/5/13, "BuzzFeed Plays Nice with Rubio, Attacks Once Back Turns," Breitbart, Ezra Dulis
"Senator Marco Rubio sits down with Ben Smith of BuzzFeed Politics Tuesday evening (2/5) for an exclusive video interview streaming live online. Rubio draws viewers—much more than "watch BuzzFeed reporters talk to each other" would, at least. BuzzFeed offers beer. Rubio talks; BuzzFeed stings Rubio.
No, really. This was the primary takeaway from the interview, the big featured headline at the top of their Politics page:
Another headline: "Marco Rubio: LGBT Protections Should Not Be 'Central Issue' In Immigration Reform."
Which begs the question: why did BuzzFeed approaching Rubio, a rising Senator who owes his seat to the Tea Party and a likely 2016 presidential candidate, not set off any alarm bells among his staff?
This is the same BuzzFeed which promoted a reporter who called Mitt Romney stupid when he thought no one was listening. This is the same BuzzFeed that personally attacked a former Romney staffer—the same BuzzFeed that had to correct the basic premise of a hit piece on Paul Ryan. This is the same BuzzFeed that accused Romney's campaign of leveraging a "race war" narrative for the GOP's benefit, then thought it worth mentioning that Romney's motorcade once drove past a Confederate flag.
This is the same BuzzFeed Rubio and his staff somehow thought would be genuinely buddy-buddy with him.
Whatever the reason, Rubio fell for it, and he went into circumstances where his ideological enemies had total control over the post-interview spin—and however articulate he was in the live talk, those snippets hammering him on wedge social issues would become the canonical impression of that interview."...
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Following are climate/CO2 terror citations for BuzzFeed's reference, the first two referencing Florida in particular:
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8/24/12, "Overview: 20 years of Florida hurricanes," globaltoronto.com, Nick Logan
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"Tampa hasn't endured a direct hit by a full-fledged hurricane in 90 years and even the state of Florida hasn't had a direct hit since Wilma in 2005."...
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8/21/12, "Hurricane warning: Is USA becoming complacent?," USA Today, Leger
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"Six years, nine months and 30 days have passed since Hurricane Wilma came ashore with 125-mph winds near Naples, Fla. —the longest period the nation has gone without a hit from a major hurricane since the government began keeping records in 1851."...
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If BuzzFeed or its advertisers cared about the planet it would know the US leads the world in reduction of CO2 emissions:
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6/4/12, “Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006,” Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage
“Not only that, but as my top chart shows, US CO2 emissions are falling even faster than what President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord.…
Here is the biggest shocker of all: the average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 --over half a century ago. …Coal is the number two source of CO2 for Americans. Today the average American burns an amount similar to what they did in 1955, and even less than they did in the 1940s. …It is exactly America’s historical role of biggest and dirtiest that makes their sharp decline in CO2 pollution so noteworthy and potentially game changing at the global level.”...
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8/16/12, “AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low,” AP, Kevin Begos
“In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years."...
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1/15/11, “Recession Special: Cleaner Air,“ NY Times, Matthew Wald
“What the government has not mandated, the economy is doing on its own: emissions of global warming gases in the United States are down.
According to the Energy Department, carbon dioxide emissions peaked in this country in 2005 and will not reach that level again until the early 2020s.”…
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4/21/12, “Why [CO2] Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe,” by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, newgeography.com
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.“As we note below in a new article for Yale360, a funny thing happened: U.S. emissions started going down in 2005 and are expected to decline further over the next decade.”
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News of US CO2 plunge has been described as:
- “Surprising,“
- “little noticed,“
- “dramatic,“
- “stunner,“
- “most people are surprised to learn,“
- “quiet but tremendous progress,”
- “major long term implications,”
- “game changing,”
- “shocker,”
- “huge contrast to the forecast.”
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BuzzFeed may be interested to know that US 'climate action' in Nov. 2012 included giving $6 billion US taxpayer dollars for 'clean energy' to the Sultan of Brunei who owns 5000+ cars and to the Pres. of Indonesia, whose country is so corrupt even the World Bank says crime adds 20% to costs.
Below, one of the Sultan of Brunei's cars:
7/24/12, "The Sultan's Cars," wheel to wheel blog.
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Even if BuzzFeed wants to believe human CO2 is destroying the planet, the lynchpin of the multi-trillion dollar global climate terror industry is the ability to blame the US and extract money. Without the ability to claim the need for a "global treaty" involving the US the entire thing falls apart. Technically it has fallen apart. No one is talking about it because billions of dollars would be lost overnight. Whether it needed to be or not US CO2 was reduced without cap and trade and extra taxes though billions of US taxpayer dollars have been diverted for "climate action" for over 2 decades. 13 federal agencies and the US military continue to be tasked with "climate" endeavors though CO2 is no longer a danger.
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BuzzFeed may have seen misrepresentations of scientific data as was the case in 2012 for the US Congress:
UN IPCC data was misrepresented to the US Congress in 2012:
8/1/12, "IPCC Lead Author Misleads US Congress," RogerPielkeJr blog
"The politicization of climate science is so complete that the lead author of the IPCC's Working Group II on climate impacts feels comfortable presenting testimony to the US Congress that fundamentally misrepresents what the IPCC has concluded. I am referring to testimony given today by Christopher Field, a professor at Stanford, to the US Senate.
This is not a particularly nuanced or complex issue. What Field says the IPCC says is blantantly wrong, often 180 degrees wrong. It is one thing to disagree about scientific questions, but it is altogether different to fundamentally misrepresent an IPCC report to the US Congress. Below are five instances in which Field's testimony today completely and unambiguously misrepresented IPCC findings to the Senate. Field's testimony is here in PDF."...
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If BuzzFeed cares about the planet and is concerned about CO2 it may be alarmed by the following 2 articles about coal:
1/29/13, "China now burning as much coal as the rest of the world combined," Washington Post, Brad Plumer
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11/19/12, "More than 1,000 New Coal Plants Planned Worldwide," Damian Carrington, UK Guardian
"India is planning 455 new plants compared to 363 in China."...
Most new coal-fired plants will be built by Chinese or Indian companies. But new plants have largely been financed by both commercial banks and development banks.
JP Morgan Chase has provided more than $16.5bn (£10.3bn) for new coal plants over the past six years, followed by
Citi ($13.8bn).
Barclays ($11.5bn) comes in as the fifth biggest coal backer and
the Royal Bank of Scotland ($10.9bn) as the seventh.
The Japan Bank for International Co-operation was the biggest development bank ($8.1bn), with
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More on China and CO2:
1/16/13, “China’s Green Leap Backward,” The Nation, Lucia Green-Weiskel
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Above, August, 2007: “China’s industrial growth depends on coal, plentiful but polluting, from mines like this one in Shenmu, Shaanxi Province, behind a village store,” NY Times.
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1/4/13, "Inside BuzzFeed’s Old Media Business Model," WSJ, Tom Gara
"In a lot of ways, the company is more 1960s Madison Avenue than 2010s Silicon Valley.
That’s because it makes all its money from so-called social advertising — essentially web content produced on behalf of a sponsor to fit its message — rather than text or banner ads. All of BuzzFeed’s advertisers work with it in a way similar to traditional advertisers and their agencies, dealing with a creative at BuzzFeed to design ads that will both go viral and quietly drill its brand into the minds of viewers....
But when he says the company is “trying to bring back the golden age of advertising” that we associate with Don Draper’s crowd, it’s worth noting that he’s referring not just to a bygone era of big-spending advertisers — he’s also talking about the thousands of bright young people it took to serve them."
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1/12/13, "Greens Misread the Climate Tea Leaves," Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia
"The gravest danger to Earth these days isn’t climate skepticism; it’s the broken, Malthusian and statist green policy imagination. Wedded to grandiose and unworkable “solutions”, greens feel they must push the panic button at every opportunity to stampede the world into embracing an unworkable and unsustainable policy agenda.
It won’t work. The Al Gore path (alarmism, hypocrisy, dumb policy solutions, green pig lipsticking or corporate subsidies disguised as green breakthroughs) will not bend the curve. Until the green movement internalizes this lesson and moves on, it will waste its energy on foolishness like the failed Kyoto Protocol and ethanol subsidies and greens will have little constructive impact on a planet they claim to love."
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