[Proflist] Global warming reporting and politics

[David E. Wojick]

Boykoff & Boykoff define objectivity as what the IPCC SPM says, then claim to show that the top newspapers "err" by reporting the opinions of climate change sceptics. Since the sceptics' arguments are well founded scientifically, and the SPM is seriously biased, the papers are correct and B&B are simply wrong. This is comforting.

Regarding the amusing lawsuit, EPA says that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Given that atmospheric CO2 is the earth's food supply they have a strong case. This is why the States are not suing under CAA.

David

>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
>  Editor, JGR - Atmospheres
>  Director, Center for Environmental Prediction
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