Yes, further confirmation that the MSM are paying serious attention to Global Warming. At this point, there's no question they've passed the "tipping point" on the issue, as I suggested back in January when both the NY Times and the Washington Post ran major front page stories on the same Sunday. Since then, 60 Minutes has done two first-rate segments -- one in February was called "Global Warning", and 2 weeks ago they did a whole piece on James Hansen, the outspoken climate scientist who NASA tried to muzzle. And for the past week ABC News has been running global warming stories all over the place, under the heading, "HOT ZONE: The Reality and Risk of Global Warming". ABC's Bill Blakemore -- who some may remember was one of the tiny handful of network correspondents who really did his job as a journalist during the first Gulf War -- has taken on the role of lead reporter on the "global warming beat". The really key change in all of this reporting is that they are now using very pointed language to make it clear to the public that there is, in fact, an overwhelming scientific concensus on the issue -- and on the urgent need to take real steps to deal with it before it's irreversible. And they're no longer giving equal time to the bullshit from the oil industry and their political mouthpieces -- instead, they've made a point of exposing the cynical strategy of deliberately confusing the public with the supposed "scientific uncertainties". So, basically, the catastrophic tidal surge of Katrina has brought about a sea-change in reporting on global warming. Craig Gingold From: "Jim Curtis" <jcurt@xxxxxxx> Date sent: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:39:02 -0800 Subject: [NewPacifica] FW: [sonoma4kucinich] Fwd: Time Mag Cover Story: Special Report: Global Warming ---------- From: Margaret Koren <maggik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: pdsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sonoma4kucinich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sonoma4kucinich] Fwd: Time Mag Cover Story: Special Report: Global Warming Date: Thu, Mar 30, 2006, 1:44 PM Sorry about the photos.....you'll have to buy Time Magazine to see the before and after photo of a melting glacier....I do believe thats a conservative magazine, isn't it? Maggi TIME Magazine Cover: Global Warming: Be Worried. Be Very Worried - Apr. 3, 2006: Science & Technology, Global Warming, Environment, Wildlife -- Click for Table of Contents [At last! The U.S. mainstream media begins to take it seriously!!] Cover Story The photograph taken in 1928, above, shows how the Upsala Glacier, part of the South American Andes in Argentina, used to look. The ice on the Upsala Glacier today, shown in 2004 below, is retreating at least 180 ft. per year >From the Magazine | Cover http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping Point The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon--and what we can do about it By JEFFREY KLUGER Posted Sunday, Mar. 26, 2006 <snip> New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewPacifica/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/