[Proflist] Global warming reporting and politics

[Alan Robock]

Dear Colleagues,

I have come upon two very interesting items that I commend to your 
attention.  The first is the lawsuit that has been filed by the State of 
NJ and several other states and New York City against power companies in 
the Midwest to get them to abate their atmospheric pollution of carbon 
dioxide.  This is a first, and it is very well prepared.  You can read 
it at:

http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/ComplaintFinal.pdf

The other is a study showing quantitatively that the "prestige media" 
gives too much weight to unscientific opposition to global warming:

Boykoff, Maxwell F., and Jules M. Boykoff, 2004:  Balance as bias: 
global warming andthe US prestige press, Global Environmental Change, 
14, 125-136.
                                                  
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/BoykoffBias.pdf

Alan

Professor Alan Robock
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