Fox News' Gretchen Carlson: "Spongebob" Lies to Kids About Global Warming
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson is slamming the nefarious Nickelodeon show "SpongeBob Squarepants" for presenting a biased view of global warming to kids.
Carlson admitted she "couldn't follow" what was going on on "Spongebob," - odd, since the show is for preschoolers and should be very easily understandable to an adult like Carlson, especially when she is willing to criticize it.
But she said, "The government agency showed kids this cartoom and handed out books that blame man for global warming, but they did not tell kids that that is actually a disputed fact. Oops."
Gather.com's article on this brouhaha makes a good point: Carlson herself is also showing only one side of the global warming debate. "Her opinion," the article reads, "as well as the [opinion of] the other experts interviewed by Fox, fail to mention the evidence of increased global warming by human use and misuse of burning fossil fuels.
Yes, a volcano eruption hurts the air quality and contributes to the ozone naturally, but what about the billions of automobiles running daily and their impact on the ozone layer? Neither Carlson, nor her guests make any mention of the damage caused by human beings to the planet."
While it's true that many cartoons attempt to gently teach kids moral lessons, most cartoons are usually half an hour long, and geared for kids' minds - there's simply not enough time to explain both sides of the global warming issue to children. Imagine if "Dinosaur Train" suddenly began attempting to teach kids that maybe there weren't dinosaurs, and maybe evolution is not a valid theory, and that God might have created the world instead?
Most kids would be confused and bored by the cramming of facts and dense information into what's supposed to be a fun kids' show. There are religious kids' shows that they can also watch, if their parents want to show them another side of this particular debate. Gretchen Carlson shouldn't expect kids' shows to cover issues exhaustively.
That being said, maybe Carlson and her cronies can create a cartoon debunking global warming, and get all their kids to watch it.
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Gretchen Carlson's statement is a bald faced-lie, one promoted by Rupert Murdoch through his faux-news station FOX. There is no controversy at all. Svante Arrhenius, the great Swedish chemist who also discovered ions, discovered global warming and the mathematical relationship between CO₂ and global temperature, way back in the 1800s. This has been accepted science for over a century. Spreading FUD like Gretchen did makes her one of the most evil women in the world. She and her cohorts are successfully delaying action on global warming. This procrastination will cause billions of people to die. Not even Hitler was that evil. Global warming sounds benign, but, according to Environment Canada, it is second only to global nuclear war in destructiveness.
At first I had her pegged as a bimbo. She looks like a bimbo. http://mindprod.com/image/people/gretchencarlson.jpg She moves and talks like a bimbo. She is obsessed with beauty contests. She works for FOX news, but I discovered she graduated magna cum laude in sociology from Standford, one of the best universities in America. So I can’t excuse her on the grounds she is too stupid to know what she is doing. Posterity will curse her name and wish she had never been born.
Roedy Green
michel bachmann was gretchen carlsons childhood nanny which is a real fact. what can one expect of your scientific prowess when bachmann is your nanny!
You have no idea how wicked you are. Your ignorant actions spreading FUD will kill billions of people. Even Hitler did not hurt than many people. Don't presume to be an expert on things you know absolutely nothing about.
"Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to global nuclear war."
~ Environment Canada on global warming. (The Canadian equivalent of the EPA)
Roedy Green