Is the US media suppressing the latest global warming story?

[Karmadillo]

I ran a Google search for "global warming" and "carbon dioxide" and came up with a number of foreign stories (mostly UK). No NY Times, no Washington Post, no nothing in the US. Maybe better search skills would have found the stories, but with an election approaching, maybe the US media has decided a potential global catastrophe is better left unmentioned so the electorate can better focus on whether or not Kerry is actually French.

Here's the search for "global warming":

http://news.google.com/news?q=global%20warming&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wn

Here's the story that probably won't lead on CNN today:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=570734

The rate at which global warming gases are accumulating in the atmosphere has taken a sharp leap upwards, leading to fears that the devastating effects of climate change may hit the world even sooner than has been predicted.

Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2 ), the principal greenhouse gas, have made a sudden jump that cannot be explained by any corresponding jump in terrestrial emissions of CO2 from power stations and motor vehicles - because there has been none.

Some scientists think instead that the abrupt speed-up may be evidence of the long-feared climate change "feedback" mechanism, by which global warming causes alterations to the earth's natural systems and then, in turn, causes the warming to increase even more rapidly than before.

Such a development would mean the worldwide droughts, agricultural failure, sea-level rise, increased weather turbulence and flooding all predicted as consequences of climate change would arrive on much shorter time-scales than present scenarios suggest, and the world would have much less time to co-ordinate its response.

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[tom_paine]

1. Too busy to be bothered, I guess

They use such a RIGOROUS standard for whta goes into their Pravda.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

Now, now, wouldn't want to print such BadFacts (as opposed to BushFacts) so close to the Imperial Appointment Day.

Of course, it is being intentionally ignored by Imperial Pravda.

I am sure they have a very good, convoluted, and corporate reason for doing so.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. This was the lead story in both today's Guardian and Independent

and made it into the Telegraph too. It does look like the American press is ignoring it (despite the evidence coming from Hawaii).

[Karmadillo]

3. Kick

n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. There's no story here. After all, didn't "Clear Skies" eliminate

CO2 as a pollutant? Therefore, our air has never been cleaner!

[donsu]

5. kick

nt

[Karmadillo]

6. Kick

n/t

[Karmadillo]

7. A new google search shows only CNN's website and Salon

with the story.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1218111.htm&filter=0

[MsMagnificent]

8. The American Press are dinosaurs

and they should not be surprised when nobody listens to them anymore.

I should say nobody will PAY them to listen, whether through not buying their papers/magazines OR not supporting their advertisers.

As witnessed in the last debate, the American people were asking the important questions that the press should have been asking all along.

I won't miss these old, odd Dinosaurs; not one bit.
They're useless. Period.

[Karmadillo]

9. Add Planet Ark, NY to the list. Other than that, no new US sources

as far as I can tell.

[Karmadillo]

10. The lastest suppressed development is Britain's chief scientist calling

for immediate action on carbon dioxide.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=6481214§ion=news

LONDON (Reuters) - The world faces a surge in extreme weather events because of global warming and governments must act immediately to avert disaster, Britain's chief scientist said on Tuesday.

"Already we are witnessing increased storms at sea and floods in our cities," David King said. "Global warming will increase the level and frequency at which we experience heightened weather patterns.

"Action is affordable. Inaction is not," he told the third Greenpeace Business Lecture in central London.

King said levels of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, were rising steadily due primarily to the burning of fossil fuels at an unprecedented rate.

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[blindpig]

11. alas NPR, I knew it well.

Before Newt & co put out their contract on America NPR had excellent environmental coverage. Now NPR is just another whore and don't get my money no more.

[hatrack]

12. Global warming? What's that?

Oh, yeah - the whole globe has special warm feelings for the Fearless Man Of God who leads America - and that' sour very own George W. Bush!!