Climate Coverage Survey
Those of you who perhaps followed this weekend thread at Real Climate know that I had planned to carry out a little experiment this week. I had intended on proving that there is no dearth of climate change coverage in the media and what’s more, that it wasn’t nearly as trite or bad as many critics make it out to be.
But I made that pledge before the Tucson tragedy occurred. And as I said in my latest comment at RC, that event will be dominating the nation’s news, politics, and discourse. I’d also like to stay dialed into the developing national discussion over our increasingly harsh and vitriolic political rhetoric.
I’ll carry out my daily survey of the climate change coverage next week.
Agree. Not to mention the weather. Some of us are up to our knees in ice and snow, and when you don’t normally wear long pants in January, your knees tend to turn a might blue.
Re: ..”our increasingly harsh and vitriolic political rhetoric.”
I can only speak (from my own perspective) for the last 50 years, the 13 before that was too ‘Tom Sawyer’. I offer that the harshness and vitriol we are witnessing is as nothing to days, and years, and centuries before the present. That which happened in Arizona brings us to a stop and we think for a moment about things like this (that happen every day somewhere in the world). Distasteful to the civilizied minds of the pampered? Yes. But “..increasingly harsh and vitriolic…” depends more on where you lived and what you’ve seen and done in your life. To some unfortunates, this recent tradgedy was not significant in any way. Being human, we can be as the angels of heaven or the devils of hell or, usually, something very much in between.
We note where blame was placed, for the act of a madman.
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Interestingly, some similarly blame the weather.