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During the most important year for climate news, TV coverage fell
http://www.skepticalscience.com/during-most-important-year-tv-climate-coverage-fell.html"Media Matters for America has published a report detailing US broadcast news coverage of climate change in 2015, and their findings are stunning.
2015 was a banner year for climate news. February, June, October, November, and December were each their respective hottest months on record, and 2015 shattered the record for hottest year. The pope delivered a climate encyclical.Investigative journalists at Inside Climate News discovered that Exxon knewabout the dangers of human-caused global warming while it funded a climate misinformation campaign, and the New York attorney general launched an investigation into the companys behavior. President Obamas Clean Power Plan went into effect, and he rejected the Keystone XL pipeline. And most importantly, 195 countries agreed to cut carbon pollution as much as possible to stem global warming.
Despite all these critically important stories, as in the presidential debates, climate change was largely absent from US broadcast news. Climate coverage fell in 2015.
Most of the decline was due to ABC, which only spent 13 minutes in 2015 covering climate change three times less than even Fox. While Foxs coverage increased, most of the networks climate segments featured interviews with guests who criticized efforts to address global warming.
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During the most important year for climate news, TV coverage fell (Original Post)
HuckleB
Mar 2016
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(1,893 posts)1. Arctic is potentially set up for a new record low in early September ... Prime time for the election
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)2. Interesting. Do you have links to this?
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(1,893 posts)3. Ice thickness and volume and air temps...
The insert graph is ice volume, at second lowest right now
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/thk.uk.php
The map graphic is ice thickness, very weak along Alaska and Canada and on the Atlantic
Temp at 80 degrees north latitude has been 10C above normal because of ElNino
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php