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Accuracy in Media

Category: Environment

America is consuming to extinction

“Dependency on oil, look at our gas prices, look at health rates. We just can’t keep consuming ourselves into extinction.”

- Brad Pitt , July 18, 2006


Newsweek is (not) neutral

“Al Gore, who is now in contention as a possible presidential candidate and who is leading a campaign to recognize the potential danger of global warming. Hooray that he is back.”

- Eleanor Clift , December 24, 2006


Warm Weather = Death?

“So I’m running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can’t, I can’t figure this out..There were record breaking temperatures across the, 72 in New York City, 69 in Boston on Saturday. A lot of people wondering is it global warming or something much simpler?”

- Meredith Vieira , January 8, 2007


End of the world

“A controversy in Washington over what literally could be the end of the world as we know it. Did the Bush administration freeze out scientists trying to sound the alarm on global warming?”

- Matt Lauer , January 31, 2007


Stretching the truth is necessary to get people’s attention

“Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it [global warming] is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”

- Al Gore , May 9, 2006


Global warming will raise sea levels 20 feet.

“[With global warming, if nothing changes in 50 years,] sea-level increases of 20 feet or more [will occur] worldwide. Of course, Florida and Louisiana and Texas are particularly vulnerable. The San Francisco Bay area, Manila. And we have seen the impact of a couple hundred thousand refugees from an environmental crisis [like Hurricane Katrina]. Imagine 100 million or 200 million [refugees].”

- Al Gore , May 24, 2006.


Man is destroying the planet.

“Today, life on Earth is disappearing faster than the days when dinosaurs breathed their last, but for a very different reason. . . . Us [sic] homo sapiens are turning out to be as destructive a force as any asteroid. Earth’s intricate web of ecosystems thrived for millions of years as natural paradises, until we came along, paved paradise, and put up a parking lot. Our assault on nature is killing off the very things we depend on for our own lives. . . . The stark reality is that there are simply too many of us, and we consume way too much, especially here at home. . . . It will take a massive global effort to make things right, but the solutions are not a secret: control population, recycle, reduce consumption, develop green technologies.”

- Matt Lauer , June 14, 2006.


Global warming is more worrisome than terrorism.

“I am more worried about the risks of global warming in the next century than I am about arms races in this century.”

- Hans Blix , May 6, 2005.


Journalists should not acknowledge scientific skepticism about global warming.

“Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what those scientists say.”

- Ross Gelbspan


The world’s weather and Iraq are related.

“All around us are signs of global climate change. And this Administration’s [the Bush Administration's] response is to send in more troops. If you don’t think there is a link between the weather and Iraq, you are wrong.”

- Alec Baldwin