One more bit on the Ross Gelbspan / James McCarthy situation, to drive home a larger point concerning the problem of critical information missing from mainstream media
news discussions of the global warming issue.
Not exact matches
Any
discussion of global warming, whether in a
news story or debate over policy or Gallup poll question, ideally should start with clarity about what's being discussed.
In case you missed President Obama's first long
discussion of human - driven
global warming in recent memory, which came near the end
of his
news conference on Wednesday, here's the brunt
of it, as summarized on Twitter by Will Oremus
of Slate (found via Stephen Lacey):
4:15 p.m. Updated On the tiny patch
of American public discourse reserved for the
global warming debate (to get an idea
of how tiny, find climate, or the environment for that matter, in this
news map if you can), a week
of blogitation over a sprawling report examining failed efforts to pass a climate bill has started to give way to constructive
discussion.
Her website has resorted to topics in the
news rather than critical
discussions of global warming.
Oil and coal folks, and their willing shills, continue to deny the larger reality
of global warming, to postpone any
discussion of attribution for as many
news cycles (and installments to personal fortune) as possible.