The day that Al Gore spoke at the Congressional Hearings on Global Warming in Washington DC this year, the weather was so very cold that one could not go outside for more than 10-minutes without a trench coat on. Many scientific reports now show the planet to be cooling from as early as 2,000 and that the average ambient temperature has actually decreased overall by 1.5 degrees F.

Apparently, although Al Gore had some support, most of the TV viewing audience on CSPAN probably laughed at the whole dog and pony show, I know I certainly did. The Global Warming Acceptors indeed probably thought his comments and testimony was worthy, but it looked like a bunch of hot air on a very cold day, and nothing more than advection fog really.

But do not count out these Warming Folks, they have mass appeal and plan on making an assault in the middle of summer, holding many pre-planned rallies in the heat of things. During hot summer days their message is much more accepted by the skeptical fence sitters who like nearly half of the climate scientists are.

Still, the climate doom and gloom crowd will be out in force trying to convince us that CO2 is the cause of eventual planetary annihilation and doom for the human race. And with a Solar Cycle coming and a potentially damaging Hurricane Season, they may have more ammo to purport their theories.

One thing for certain, this is a huge boom for the professional party organizers and event hosting industry and it provides a lot of PR jobs for so many that have been out of work ever since Barrack Obama's campaign, where they used their skills to force down our throats an image of a man who has so very little experience leading much of anything except community protests. Please consider all this in my Op Ed piece here.

By: Lance Winslow
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The European Union promises to cut twenty percent in carbon dioxide emissions, but is this really going to help the Earth's Atmosphere or even appease the Global Warming Alarmists. A reduction of 20% is very little considering China increases every two years by the EUs proposed 20% reduction by 2020. Still, the EU is billing it as the "20-20-20" climate plan.

Worse, the unions and labor parties in Europe are even complaining about that. Meanwhile both China and India are refusing to participate in a cap-and-trade program, which the Obama Administration proclaims is the answer. If the US goes for the cap-and-trade, and China and India don't then the overall CO2 output will still go up Worldwide, but the United States' economy will suffer, along with her manufacturing base.

And energy costs in the US will go up, thus making companies less competitive. The EU sees this problem too, and thus, they have the "20-20-20" plan, which is to save us from Global Warming but in name only. Interestingly enough, it was the European Union that was behind much of the concept of Global Warming and planned to enforce this on the rest of the world, especially the USA. Why?

Simple, so they could have an advantage over the United States in the global market place, but even with a modest cut of 20% on their own soil, it puts them at a severe disadvantage with India and China. The union workers already see the problem and the labor parties are backing off their own carbon emissions while insisting that the Obama Administration go full-steam ahead in cutting US emissions.

By: Lance Winslow
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The local weatherman stood in front of the map of the mid Atlantic region. The temperature graphic showed a massive cold air mass to the north, and seasonal temperatures in the local area. He stepped back and pointed to the high pressure coming in from the west.

"This high pressure system, rotating clockwise, is dragging cold Canadian air our way, dropping our temperatures to well before normal!" The weatherman motioned the clockwise rotation. Then, with the length of his arm, swept through and motioned as if he was personally dragging cold air to our area.

"But you'll be waking up to a very mild start of the week come Monday!" Right then, a display of the upcoming week's weather came up. The weatherman forecasted above average temperatures.

What the weatherman left out spoke volumes.

This high pressure system tracked eastward. Once it moved east and out to sea, its clockwise rotation kicked warm air from the sub tropics into our area. The weatherman didn't project this system, or its affects, to explain the following week's above average temperatures.

In another reporting, the weather graphic showed a high pressure system to the east. Yet, the weatherman offered no explanation to the high pressure's clockwise rotation kicking subtropical air our way. We were going through another set of mild weather days.

The idea behind this was to bias the audience into thinking that cooler than normal air were natural anomalies. Leaving the high pressure system effects out biased the audience toward man made global warming.

The media also uses different facts to feed this deception.

It's the fall of 2007. The national weather map shows two temperature extremes; the west under a cold block, and the east under a warm air mass. The caption read: "The west goes through wintry weather while the East sees record breaking heat."

Both statements were factual, but this statement would've also been true: "The west sees record breaking cold and snows while the east goes through summer like weather."

The country saw record breaking hot and record breaking cold weather that day. In any given day, some weather station is reporting a record low, a record high, a record high minimum, and a record low maximum. The caption left the fact out that the west was setting record low temperatures, and replaced it with another fact; it was going through wintry conditions.

The media's goal was to bias the audience toward man made global warming.

The caption would've been bias free had it read as follows: "Record breaking cold in the west and record breaking heat in the east" or "Wintry weather in the west and summer like weather in the east."

Weather isn't the only area where the media plays with words to influence public opinion. But it's easier to show media bias when it comes to talking weather. The facts are readily available, people experience weather, and this topic unites people who'd normally be divided on other issues.

Once you have their ears on media bias in this area, it's easier to show them media bias in other media areas.

By: Travis Hill
Travis is a freelance writer that specializes in information market, political writing, fundraising and communications.

A trawler sits parked near Sisimut, Greenland. A strange catch hangs on its jib. This isn't a new species of squid, or an unfortunate whale calf. Lifeless, and hanging from the trawler's jib, is a land and aquatic animal, completely gutted after being shot. Blood stained its white fur.

The trawler's owner didn't go out to hunt polar bears struggling to get from one ice block to another. He didn't even catch this bear as it swam a long distance to get to an ice cap that's disappearing at a high rate.

The polar bear's "crime?"

Villagers caught this polar bear rummaging through their garbage. They brought the guns out and ended this bear's food foraging. Never again will they fear this polar bear. But what was this bear doing in a town?

Normally, polar bears hunt seal or walrus resting on an ice sheet's edge. They even spend a lot of time waiting near breathing holes, or places seals would go to catch some air.

But since the ice has gotten thicker, these seals had to find other places to breath. The growing ice sheet even caught 200 narwhal whales by surprise. What was supposed to be a routine breathing stop turned into a fatal nightmare. Thickening ice cut their escape route to the sea; promising them a slow death. The Canadian government had no choice but to allow hunters to exceed their whale hunting limit.

Growing ice becomes everyone's enemies, man and animal alike. With the ice cutting their food source off, unlucky polar bears face starvation. Human villages offer them hope; garbage cans become instant all-you-can-eat buffets.

This fact is important, as many people are embracing the myth that the ice sheets are disappearing; threatening polar bear populations. Ironically, growing ice slowly kills them; melting ice brings them a thanksgiving bounty.

So, if thickening ice isn't helping the polar bear population, what other myths is the media broadcasting to a busy populace?

Those claiming that the ice sheets are shrinking point to "Exhibit A," the photo with bears huddling on a shrinking chunk of ice.

But, if you talk to the photographer, that ice chunk was within easy swimming distance to the main ice sheet. This photo took place during the summer, when the Arctic ice sheet normally melts around the edges. The sun wouldn't be that bright during the winter.

As "Exhibit B," they talk about the polar bear drowning as it tried to swim the long distance to the nearest ice sheet. The fact that a storm blew this polar bear out to sea goes unmentioned.

Another media myth is that the polar bear population has shrunk due to the melting ice sheets. Despite their misfortunes, the polar bear population is doing pretty good. The National Center for Public Policy Research points out that the polar bear population has doubled since the 1960s, standing at 22,000 bears.

By: Travis Hill
Travis is a freelance writer that specializes in information market, political writing, fundraising and communications.