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Morano works for Senator James Inhofe, ranking Republican member of the Senate Environment Committee.

It was before this committee that Australian climate scientist Bob Carter testified that "In one of the more expensive ironies of history, the expenditure of more than $50 billion on research into global warming since 1990 has failed to demonstrate any human-caused climate trend, let alone a dangerous one."

But Newsweek won't report that. The facts have taken a back seat to propaganda.

Under President Bush alone, according to the administration's own account, $9 billion has been spent since 2002 on "climate change research" devoted to promoting the controversial theory. The administration boasts that "Multilaterally, the United States is by far the largest financial provider for the activities of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change." The latter is the controversial body that has most loudly sounded the alarm.

The well-funded lobby, in truth, is financed by U.S. taxpayers. This is the story Newsweek won't tell.

The Tide Turns

The notion had been propagated in the media and popular culture that there is a "consensus" among virtually all scientists not funded by oil and gas money that the world is heating up at a rapid pace, and that this is a result of human activity, especially in North America and Europe, where people are consuming too much carbon-based energy.

For example, Dr. Heidi Cullen of The Weather Channel said that "If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS (the American Meteorological Society) shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval. Clearly, the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns."

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., spoke at Al Gore's Live Earth event on July 7. Referring to global warming skeptics, he said, "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors." The lynch mob was gathering.

In a previous column, (web site) I noted that CBS's Scott Pelley used the Newsweek tactic of comparing the skeptics to Holocaust deniers. When he was asked why, in a "60 Minutes" story on global warming, he ignored the views of the skeptics, he said, "If I do an interview with Elie Wiesel am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?" This is the mentality among many in the media, and it is reflected in the Newsweek cover story.

But according to one of the believers in the man-made global warming theory, Roger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, the allusion to so-called "deniers" is "an affront to those who suffered and died in the Holocaust. This allusion has no place in the discourse on climate change."

Newsweek didn't take his admonition seriously.

In fact, the science behind global warming is the subject of a legitimate debate. This is an area in which our media, if reporters were truly devoted to professional journalism and objective coverage, could shine. Instead, they resort to using smear tactics against one side.

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