The Roanoke Slant

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Roanoke Times, 10-9-11, Pg 1, 16: Fall foliage displays may be pushing deeper into autumn. A shift in timing could be tied to global warming or to year-to-year differences.
“The fall foliage is going to get pushed back” (by man-made global warming) WARNED Richard Primack, professor of biology at BU.
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It’s this continuation of Gorite proclamations, usually in headlines and on front pages, made as if they are scientific fact that makes the AGW(manmade global warming)-Alarmists an embarrassment to real scientists.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/09/rejoice-there-still-are-responsible.html
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What makes this journalist bias and slant so interesting is that back on page 16 there are several references and quotes that totally undermine the Gore-AGW tripe. The amount of variation in the northern hard-wood color change process due to temperature, rainfall, early frost, etc. is trivial compared to the changes in daylight hours which fortunately for the leaf-peeper business is very predictable.
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Why do the editors of the Roanoke Times and their associates continue to embarrass themselves with this type of front-page yellow-journalism?
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Same type story from Four Years Ago (apparently this stuff is on a roll-a-dex):
Roanoke Times, 10/21/07, Pg 1: Some “leaf peepers” in New England are blaming climate change on a less than “vivid” leaf color change this year.
The Al Gore Hypothesis of man-made global warming strikes again and conveniently so soon after his metal! It’s interesting that the “current natural 250 year global warming cycle” has hit the maple leaves at this particular time! Apparently the “scientific leaf peepers” haven’t figured out that it’s the shortening of daylight that turns the leaves to red and that lack of rain and onset of frost contributes to the intensity of the changed colors, something that has happened many times before without the help of Al Gore.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-rubbish-science.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/09/flush-quick-ocean-levels-are-dropping.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-do-agw-alarmists-find-it-necessary.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/09/someone-tell-gore-climate-has-always.html
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How I became a Skeptic, and why I still am:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/AGW-Skeptic/
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