Topic: CNSNews.com
From our where-are-they-now file: Marc Morano, former CNSNews.com reporter and current director of communications for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (that would be on the Republican side of things, meaning that he may be looking for a new job very shortly), was in Kenya this week for the United Nations conference on climate change. As we've noted, Morano has used his Senate job to make misleading claims about global warming -- he and his boss Sen. James Inhofe, oppose the idea that humans have anything to do with global warming.
A Nov. 14 Associated Press article notes that Morano is keeping up the fight:
A spokesman for the U.S. senator who described global warming as a hoax showed up at a gathering of believers Tuesday, claiming scientific dissent on the issue was being suppressed and demonized.
One scholar shot back that the Senate aide must be living on another planet. The exchange took place at the UN conference on climate change, which has drawn more than 5,000 diplomats, activists and scientists to consider new steps in combating global warming.
"The skeptics who get vocal are vilified," said Marc Morano, director of communications for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The committee chairman, Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, has enraged environmentalists by calling global warming alarmist and a hoax.
Morano was invited to be part of a panel discussion on how best to convey the issue of climate change in the media. His fellow panelists, including Jules Boykoff of Pacific University in Oregon, argued that skeptics actually get too much attention in the press.[...]
"The shrillness of these skeptics and their numbers have been on the decline," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, told The Associated Press before the panel discussion.
But Morano referred to the two-week UN conference as an "echo chamber" where "the media and climate alarmists demonize climate skeptics."
Morano continues to bring the same standard of accuracy and fairness to his Senate job as he did at CNS. Remember, he co-wrote CNS' attacks on John Murtha earlier this year, which hauled out the disgruntled and the dead to smear Murtha.
