NCTV’s Anti-AGW Content Surprised Me Today
I was surprised today to catch the tail-end of a short video on NCTV expressing the fringe view that global warming is not caused by humans. The video also promoted a book called “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years,” by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery.
The video, featuring a talk by Avery, is not in NCTV’s schedule but was shown just before the beginning of today’s channel 17 broadcast about noon of the Nevada County Board of Supervisors’ Special Meeting of July 6th.
I called NCTV staff and learned that this video is one of a large collection of short videos on file at the studio that are used as “fillers.” Short fillers allow NCTV staff to fill gaps between regularly-scheduled programs as they occur from time-to-time.
Quite properly, NCTV is “blind” to the content of its programming, precisely so that it will reflect the diversity of views in the community at large. NCTV staff told me that they have also run other programs on global warming.
This suggests to me that anyone in our community who wants to promote the mainstream view, anthropogenic (or “man-made”) global warming (AGW), would do well to offer some short content — preferably under 20 minutes — to NCTV to include in their filler library for future use.
Here’s a short 3-minute excerpt from the piece I caught today on channel 17, the government channel:
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Thank you Don. I don’t keep an eye on NCTV, and I should. Grrr.
You know what might be interesting, in an “I’m cranky today” kind of way, is to do a short video explaining how phlogiston works, and spontaneous generation. And see that they run it…
Today I went in to NCTV and submitted a DVD of Peter Sinclair’s Climate Crock of the Week shorts; including one on Avery.
so, keep an eye out…
(wish I’d had the sense to realize earlier that I could just submit shorts, not just an (almost) entire half-hour or hour show.)
Anna. Good job!
But don’t reproach yourself and I won’t reproach myself.
How could we have known?
> “How could we have known?”
A: We could have read the submission form more carefully.
(that’s the royal we, btw)
Don (and others), a few days ago I was told that the Peter Sinclair shorts have been loaded into NCTV’s system; so if you see either them or more of this antiscience filler, please let me know.
And the NCTV station software reports that they *are* being played, pretty much daily. Encouraged by this I am now at work stitching together Naomi Oreskes, Jim Phillips, and Stephen Hawking/Carl Sagan.
(since I’m a Final Cut Pro novice, the end product *will* have its Frankensteinian moments…)
Anna:
Thanks so much for doing this!
And viola, it is finally done, and turned in to the powers that be at NCTV.
Keep an eye out…