Comments on: The clean energy revolution will not be televised, Part 2: Kathleen Hall Jamieson lambastes MSM for under-reporting climate bill

By: J4zonian

J4zonian — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:32:16 +0000

It is not so in my case; it seems it is not so in yours. Why can’t it be not-so in others?

Everything changes; therefore everything is changeable,

and the feeling of despair has more to do with internal tissue states and repeating stories we tell ourselves than external reality. There is always hope until there isn’t, and none of us knows when it is really all gone.

By: Phil Eisner

Phil Eisner — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:16:47 +0000

My experience of life after 75 years on this planet is that celebrities are mostly entertainers and have always been adored by the public and its media to the virtual exclusion of science and scientists. I noted and detested this behavior since I was a boy in elementary school. In fact, the daily news on television is an entertainment and the more entertaining the better. So we have murders, and sensational deaths, and controversies (even if contrived like global warming). So you can despair like I do, but it is unlikely it will change except for a few exceptions.

By: J4zonian

J4zonian — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:44:31 +0000

There’s no such thing as irony. Irony is just what we call it when we don’t understand a system well enough to logically explain observed events. The system in question here is human psychology; the mechanisms are splitting and projection—in common terms, denial, but that doesn’t explain anything, it just labels it. That’s a common phenomenon of human psychology, the tendency to think of nouns as full explanations–or at least full enough to stop further investigation. So I guess that makes nouns the Warren Commissions of human thought. Irony, denial…are we going to be satisfied by such terms or are we each going to investigate psychology enough to not only explain but do something about the behaviors?

Rick understands that there’s a connection between focus on the deaths of a few and ignor-ance of the impending deaths of trillions. We need to go further.

By: radyo dinle

radyo dinle — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:44:52 +0000

It is really disheartening that an issue that affects the world is so undercovered, and that steps to deal with it are back page news.(or no page news). And if I have to watch one more tribute to Micheal Jackson, 17 is probably enough don’t you think? I’ll damage my TV.

By: Rick Covert

Rick Covert — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:56:51 +0000

Its an irony that the MSM finds abundant time to report on the deaths of celebrities, there have been 3 including Michael Jackson, (Karl Malden, Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson) but no time at all to focus on the legislation, the fundamental changes in the focus of our economy and technologies to save civilzation and by direct relation our lives.

By: Leland Palmer

Leland Palmer — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:07:34 +0000

And the lack of coverage robbed the Democrats of the momentum they need to carry the climate bill in the Senate.

It’s just the possible end of the biosphere, nothing to see here, people, just move along.

Our media is a controlled media, no less than the Soviet media was. It’s a lot more subtle, but no less controlled, IMO.

By: Larry Coleman

Larry Coleman — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:53:33 +0000

The MSM reporters do not understand science in particular, or technical subjects in general, which is partly why they are journalists. Thus, they feel incapable of presenting the scientific consensus, or in this case, the climate science consensus, or in dealing with the issues mentioned above. Four hundred years ago, they would have given equal time to the Church and Galileo while thinking that they had done a fine job.

By: BBHY

BBHY — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:20:38 +0000

Not only do we need more coverage, but better coverage of climate as well. When the MSM does find time to cover climate, they seem to feel the need to provide “balance” by include some crazed denier(s).

When I say crazed, I mean the always make some assertion as if it were a known fact even though it has already been thoroughly debunked, over and over again.

Sadly, making these assertions has proved to be a good strategy. It makes the subject “controversial”, wich makes it more attractive to the MSM. It also steers the discussion into debunking denier myths instead of explaining what is actually happening in the real world.

By: Oakleigh Solargroupies

Oakleigh Solargroupies — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:37:51 +0000

News Flash to Larry King, Wolf Blitzer and network news anchors: If you spent the same hours research and airtime on raising Americans’ awareness on clean energy as you spent on Michael Jackson over the past two weeks, our country would be much better off. The peril that humanity faces as a result of climate change far outweighs any extended entertainment story you could find. Climate change and clean energy not sexy enough? We face a complete forced migration, water disasters, wars, flooding, famine, and total breakdown of the human race as we know it. Surely you can find something sensational in there. What is it you don’t understand? This is not a time to be dancing on the Titanic!

By: ecostew

ecostew — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:57:34 +0000

The Arctic sea ice melt-down continues: http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/ cryosphere/ IMAGES/ current.365.jpg