{"id":6983,"date":"2012-04-30T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:35:08","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-wind-farms-cause-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6983","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Wind Farms Cause Global Warming?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In their ongoing effort to insure that the Fox News audience is the most ill-informed collection of dimwits on God’s flat Earth, Fox Nation published a story that makes the incredulous claim that “New Research Shows Wind Farms Cause Global Warming.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Of course the research referenced shows nothing of the sort. Even the first line of the Reuters article, to which the Fox Nationalists linked, specifically says that the effect the wind farms “might”<\/em> have is limited to the “local”<\/em> climate. There is no finding in the research that suggests any global impact.<\/p>\n

What’s more, when contacted by Media Matters<\/a>, the study’s lead author called the coverage “misleading.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“[it is very likely that]<\/em> wind turbines do not create a net warming of the air and instead only re-distribute the air’s heat near the surface, which is fundamentally different from the large-scale warming effect caused by increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is part of a continuing pattern of conservative media misrepresenting scientific research in order to deceive their audience and promote policies that benefit their wealthy, corporate backers. These right-wing “journalists”<\/em> never bother to correct the record even when the scientists they misquote insist that their work has been mangled. That’s because reporting the truth is not part of Fox’s mission. Advancing their partisan disinformation is the only reason they are in business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In their ongoing effort to insure that the Fox News audience is the most ill-informed collection of dimwits on God’s flat Earth, Fox Nation published a story that makes the incredulous claim that “New Research Shows Wind Farms Cause Global Warming.” Of course the research referenced shows nothing of the sort. Even the first line […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[1145,527],"class_list":["post-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-environment","tag-fox-nation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1OD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6762,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6762","url_meta":{"origin":6983,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Global Warming And The Media","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/31\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The anti-science, faith-based zealots at Fox Nation examined the results of a Gallup poll on global warming and concluded that the headline revelation from the survey was that \"42% Of Americans Feel The Media Exaggerates Global Warming.\" Confident that their readers would never bother to look up the Gallup data\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Environment"","block_context":{"text":"Environment","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=473"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6153,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6153","url_meta":{"origin":6983,"position":1},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Beware The Lethal New Ice Age","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/9\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox Nation is starting off the new year determined to exceed last year's Cavalcade of Crackpottery. 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