No wonder people are ignorant. FAIR highlights how 2 major news (?) networks recently "reported" on an IPCC Report on climate change. Utterly appalling - and irresponsible.
"The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounds the usual alarms, but that doesn't mean it got much attention from TV news. The typical reports were rip-and-read summaries, like this one from ABC World News (11/2/14):
And from the UN tonight, a dire warning about climate change. Scientists claiming that unless we make some serious changes, the build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could soon lock the Earth in a, quote, "irreversible course of global warming."
But Fox News, you might not be surprised to hear, has a different way of doing the very same kind of report. During a news break on the show Sunday Morning Futures (11/2/14), hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox's Eric Shawn told viewers:
In other news, climate change is happening, attributing it almost entirely to human activity. The panel says emissions may have to drop by zero by the end of the century to avoid potential dangerous rises in the global temperature, but to accomplish that, they would have to quit using oil, coal and gas to power the energy system. Critics, of course, have said that climate change, though, is largely not man-made.
It's all of 70 words. But still, one must reserve some time to gesture towards the "critics"–virtually none of whom have any relevant scientific background–who say humans have nothing to do with climate change.
Fair and balanced."
"The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounds the usual alarms, but that doesn't mean it got much attention from TV news. The typical reports were rip-and-read summaries, like this one from ABC World News (11/2/14):
And from the UN tonight, a dire warning about climate change. Scientists claiming that unless we make some serious changes, the build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could soon lock the Earth in a, quote, "irreversible course of global warming."
But Fox News, you might not be surprised to hear, has a different way of doing the very same kind of report. During a news break on the show Sunday Morning Futures (11/2/14), hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox's Eric Shawn told viewers:
In other news, climate change is happening, attributing it almost entirely to human activity. The panel says emissions may have to drop by zero by the end of the century to avoid potential dangerous rises in the global temperature, but to accomplish that, they would have to quit using oil, coal and gas to power the energy system. Critics, of course, have said that climate change, though, is largely not man-made.
It's all of 70 words. But still, one must reserve some time to gesture towards the "critics"–virtually none of whom have any relevant scientific background–who say humans have nothing to do with climate change.
Fair and balanced."
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