I was privileged this past Saturday to join Lincoln Eagle publisher Mike Marnell on Scott Harrington's Speak Out show on WKNY, Kingston, NY. We discussed education and politics; I posted the interview here. WKNY is a great local music station that plays close-to-nonstop soft rock. Since they had me on the air, I've been listening to their programming. The soft-classic rock format is great, but the station is an affiliate of ABC News. As a result, I've inadvertently heard a few of the ABC newscasts, which breaks one of my personal moral rules: Do not listen to the media. Most of what ABC discusses is irrelevant. What caught my attention was their blaring claim: "The debate is settled: There is global warming." Well, that's all well and good because there has been a global warming for the past 10,000 years, since the last Ice Age, as the chart below shows.
As I mentioned on the radio show, the useful information to be gained from listening to the media is to learn what it doesn't talk about.
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