I seriously hope that with Barbara Boxer now having taken over the chairmanship of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, this bozo is booted - or at least his blog goes away. This is ridiculous that US government money is being us to push this kind of garbage from this king of garbage man.
Scientific American's blog gives us the goods:
#1 Was anyone else aware that the Weather Channel has an entire blog, site, and regular segment devoted to nothing but climate change? (And that it's surprisingly excellent considering the usual superficiality that qualifies as "news" these days?)Who is Marc Morano? Sourcewatch informs us:
#2 ...Much less that said segment is hosted by the Amanda Congdon of climatologists, a certain Dr. Heidi Cullen, formerly of the National Center for Atmospheric Research?
#3 Or that U.S. Senators are now blogging freely on sites carrying the official seal of the United States Senate, under the auspices of climate change denier James Inhofe, who, ironically, wanted to stop actual scientists from speaking their mind just as freely as he and his buddies now do?
#4 Or that on said U.S. Senate blog, James Inhofe's "pet weasel" Marc Morano, the same guy who helped invent the Swift Boat controversy in his previous incarnation as a "journalist," has just posted a blog entry accusing Dr. Cullen of advocating "Nuremberg-Style Trials for Climate Skeptics"?
Marc Morano is communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Morano commenced work with the committe under Senator James Inhofe, who was majority chairman of the committee until January 2007. In December 2006 Morano launched a blog on the committee's website that largely promotes the views of climate change sceptics.December 2006. After the Republicans lost the election. Interesting timing. Someone should fix this. Do you really think the GOP would let us create this kind of site, with this kind of guy running it, if we started it AFTER they took over?
Morano is a former journalist with Cybercast News Service (owned by the conservative Media Research Center). CNS and Morano were the first source in May 2004 of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth claims against John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election [1] and in January 2006 of similar smears against Vietnam war veteran John Murtha.
Morano was "previously known as Rush Limbaugh's 'Man in Washington,' as reporter and producer for the Rush Limbaugh Television Show, as well as a former correspondent and producer for American Investigator, the nationally syndicated TV newsmagazine." [2]
