Vermont Maple Syrup Producer Complains: NBC Edited My Remarks to Support ‘Global Warming’

John Hames shared with you:   Vermont Maple Syrup Producer Complains: NBC Edited My Remarks to Support 'Global Warming' News Busters - Sometimes the truth is much sweeter than the syrupy environmentalism of the national media. While hyping the alleged effects on climate change, NBC's May 6 "Nightly News" tried to localize the impact by citing a different problem in each region. The broadcast played a clip of Burr Morse, a seventh-generation maple syrup producer from Montpelier, Vermont, stating that this season's weather had been too warm. Contrary to this clip's implications, Morse told the MRC's Business and Media Institute that cold weather actually did more to harm this year's maple syrup season. In fact, Morse claimed that winter "hung on a month longer than it usually does." Because of this lingering cold, Morse started tapping his maple trees in April instead of March. By April, however, the nights were slightly too warm for the ideal 20 degree temperature, hence the actual context for NBC's excerpt. Rather than suffering from the heat, Morse described this season's primary hardship as cold, saying a "big part of the season was that it was too cold." Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/sean-long/2014/05/08/nbc-expert-network-selectively-edited-my-remarks-support-global-warming#ixzz319tKQDaT Available on the App Store.

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