Frederic W. Barnes, an American journalist, author, and conservative political commentator, is the executive editor of the news publication The Weekly Standard, co-host with Mort Kondracke of The Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel, and also regularly appears on Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume.

Early Life and Journalism Career

Controversial Statements
In reference to the book The Truth About Hillary (Sentinel, June 2005), Barnes claimed that "Republican-hating media ... trashed a perfectly respectable, though highly critical, biography of Hillary" [1].

Hillary Clinton
On July 29, 2006, Barnes denied anthropogenic climate change on Fox News's Beltway Boys. When co-host Mort Kondracke cited recent climate data, Barnes shrugged, saying "so?" Kondracke answered, "[G]lobal warming is a fact." Barnes retorted, "Yeah, but who caused it? You don't know." Kondracke replied, "Humans," Barnes protested: "No! You don't know that." [2]
In Spring of 2007, Barnes appeared as a panelist on Special Report with Brit Hume. In it, he claimed that there was no scientific consensus on global warming since there was a difference in the claims by Al Gore's movie and the United Nations. [3]
He ended his interview saying that there was no evidence that humans were causing global warming, and that he personally like warmer weather:
BARNES: "There is, no, Mort you've been in Tibet for three weeks, believe me, everyday you were gone some new scientist came out and said he didn't believe in the extravagant tales that are told by people like Al Gore. Al Gore—remember the difference between Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations, Al Gore says that over the next century sea level rises 20 feet. This panel on climate change says well maybe 17-23-inches, which I think we can live—look, we don't know whether humans are causing this—we don't even know whether global warming's bad. Me, I like warmer weather."
BARNES: There's a man [Al Gore] who has a fever. That's for sure. Look, it is clear now that there is no scientific consensus on global warming, except for one thing: we know the temperature in the globe increased by 1 degree over the last 100 years. And - and scientists are increasingly embarrassed by the wild exaggerations of Al Gore, where he - he says we're going to get a - the sea level will rise 20 feet, and the U.N. group that's looked into this says it'll be 23 inches. You'll have to admit, there's a significant difference there. And - and I think you're going to increasingly see - well, we have seen, in that New York Times story, scientists increasingly ready to go public to repudiate Al Gore. And yet, you know, you find some Al Gore apologist like yourself, Mort.