MAJOR MEDIA STILL DODGE THE HUMAN-CLIMATE CHANGE LINK

TV News and Extreme Weather: Don't Mention Climate Change

December 18, 2013 (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)

“Dramatic weather-related disasters are ready made for TV news. But what's not on the screen? The human-made climate change that is affecting, and in some cases exacerbating, that extreme weather…A new FAIR survey of the national network newscasts (CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News) finds…there were 450 segments of 200 words or more that covered extreme weather [in the first 9 months of 2013]: flooding, forest fires, tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes and heat waves…[But] just a tiny fraction--16 segments, or 4 percent of the total--so much as mentioned the words ‘climate change,’ ‘global warming’ or ‘greenhouse gases’ …almost as if the altered climate and the weather were happening on two different planets…” click here for more

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