Thanks to Canada Free Press:

It is clear the science behind climate change is biased and disputed, leaving the propaganda machine as the only fact that remains.

By Paul Murdock, Psy.D
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

In the last several weeks we have learned several new facts about [1] climate change research. First, climate scientists’ motives are biased. Second, scientists actively discussed how to achieve political ends through their research. Third, and more disturbingly, the public has learned of discarded data, attempts to keep opposing views silent, and total political adherence to an ideology.

Yet, without thinking twice, the main stream media and [2] President Obama have shrugged off the controversy and continued boldly with their partisan agenda.  It is clear the science behind climate change is biased and disputed, leaving the propaganda machine as the only fact that remains.

Research by the conservative Media Research Group has stated that since the Climategate scandal broke out, ABC, CBS, and NBC have not mentioned the story in any of their news casts including their morning shows. Even when the outlets discussed Obama’s upcoming trip to Copenhagen, the controversy was never mentioned. There has been no mention of recently published research questioning climate change or that thousands of scholars disagree. Recently, the [3] Wall Street Journal has raised questions of silencing dissenting opinions at the EPA, and there are now questions about NASA’s data. Even with a wide variety of dispute, the networks continue to use the language of propaganda including “undisputed, unequivocal, settled, and consensus.”….([4] Full Story)

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Note by folc.ca: Prescriptions for successful propaganda by two master-propagandists (keep in mind that propaganda was then an art, it is now a science):

Propaganda

(Quoted [5] from bruderheim-rea.ca)

As far back as 1928, Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, wrote in his book Propaganda:

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.  Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country….

The important thing is that [propaganda] is universal and continuous; and in its sum total it is regimenting the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers.^{[6] [1, [7] 2, [8] 3]}

(Note by folc.ca: When these notes on propaganda were posted at bruderheim.ca, in the beginning of 2002, in connection with a history of the deregulation of the utility industry in Alberta, Edward Bernays was still alive and offered his services as a consultant at $10,000 per hour. As a strategist for propaganda, he was well worth what he charged.)

Someone else, far more famous but perhaps not as influential on a global and on-going basis, wrote along similar lines even before that:

The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses’ attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision. …

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction. …

The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan….

The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.

—Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter VI