We've all heard the oil industry and the coal industry and their indentured servants in the political process telling us that global climate stability is a luxury that we can't afford -- that we have to choose now between economic prosperity on the one hand and environmental protection on the other.

And that is a false choice.

CNN shock jock Glenn Beck's "Climate of Fear" special was a miserable failure in the cable ratings.

It most likely tanked because it played host to the usual global warming denier gang, using the same laundry list of global warming denial talking points.

See below for the youtube version of Beck's denier-a-minute special broken into six parts -- and check out the research we have compiled on some of the better known global warming dinosaurs Beck features.

Is it scientifically valid to attribute one instance of total failure by the global warming denier campaign to an emerging long-term global trend of failures by the global warming denier campaign? 

Last week's Glenn Beck denier-a-minute special on climate change "alarmism" was a complete flop. The evening ratings are out and it shows Beck dead last in total viewers in the 7pm time slot. CNN can't be too happy, considering there was a considerable amount of hype-dollars invested in this attack on science.

I guess Tim Ball isn't the media darling the US think tank s have been making him out to be.

H/T: Media Matters 

Haven't had a chance to comb through this yet, but thought I would post it in the meantime. I will bet anyone $5 that the word "global cooling" come up at least 5 times.