MRC celebrates exposing long-established fact; producer called claims “worst case scenarios,” ”not a prediction of what will happen”
Climate deniers have worked themselves into a self-congratulatory lather over a “Good Morning America” segment from 2008 that included some erroneous predictions about the consequences of climate change. The segment promoted a special ABC News program called “Earth 2100,” which projected a future world living with the possible consequences of unchecked global warming.
Obviously, some of the prophesies were off. Among the predictions gone wrong, by June 2015 (today! get it!?!) $12.99 per gallon of milk and gasoline at more than $9 per gallon. Both of which are almost hilariously wrong.
The ultra-conservative Media Research Center’s “Newsbusters” website is doing a giddy victory dance over those purported mistakes. Because if a TV show doesn’t hit 1.000 in making bold predictions about future consequences of climate change, obviously it means global warming is a fraud and the liberal media are in on it, right? That’s what MRC would like you to believe.
“Seven years later, the network has quietly ignored its horribly inaccurate predictions about 2015,” MRC analyst Scott Whitlock harrumphs smugly. “When it comes to global warming claims, apparently results don’t matter for ABC.”
But, no, that’s not really how it works. Not at all. It’s far more complicated, but MRC isn’t going to tell you that. Because if they acknowledged any of the many qualifiers– including the producer’s explicit public statement that not all of the predictions were expected to come true, more on which later– in the presentation and content of “Earth 2100,” they’d have to acknowledge that they’re being purposefully narrow in their “analysis,” so that they can point and laugh.
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