What if the sun rose one brilliant morning and never set?
Just stayed up in the sky, blazing brilliant, melting the polar ice cap into blue nothingness, erasing the coastlines into a Dali-esque reconfiguration of nature's win over man?
Would it dawn on the media about that time to begin questioning the presidential candidates about global warming as an ever-present sun liquefied our world?
As analyzed by the League of Conservation Voters--
As of Jan. 25, these five prime-time journalists--CNN's Wolf Blitzer, ABC's George Stephanopoulos, MSNBC's Tim Russert, Fox News' Chris Wallace and CBS's Bob Schieffer--had conducted 171 interviews with the candidates.
Of the 2,975 questions they asked them, only six mentioned the words "climate change" or "global warming."
To put that in perspective: three questions mentioned UFOs.
The Democratic and Republican candidates both have positions on global warming.
All three top U.S. presidential contenders tout their environmental credentials, with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton cast far more "green" votes in Congress than John McCain.
So, what's the deal? What is the media waiting for? As further reported by the League of Conservation Voters, "doing nothing about dependence on foreign oil and global warming" was cited as one of top five reasons Americans feel this country is heading in the wrong direction.
It doesn't take an Einstein to ask one simple question.
Why are top reporters ignoring this issue?
Is it a Cleavage vs. Climate race for ratings?
If that's so, cleavage might be the only floatation device keeping our heads above water as we--either through ignorance or nonchalance--hurry our planet along towards a premature Ice Age Eight.
Global warming followed by global cooling.
8 comments:
keeping with the oil theme "because they are dip sticks" D
Pretty sad state of affairs when they refuse to address one of the few defining issues of our time.
Well said words by you both.
You have a knack for rousting up those statistics Sunny...congrats.
Some goodies from James G Watt, Secretary of the interior under President (ketchup is a vegetable)Reagan.
"A left-wing cult dedicated to bringing down the type of government I believe in."
--James Watt describing environmentalists
"We will mine more, drill more, cut more timber."
"I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns."
these quotes are representative of the interests that seek to repress and derail responsibility for the stewardship of the planet we call home. Rest assure they are working 24/7 to subvert substantive change...whether 1980 or 2010...they are there.
Under Nixon the corporations coalesced under the first corporate lawyer president.These interests familiarly known as the 'military industrial complex'
have brought us many years of retrograde selfserving government, possibly pushed to new heights of
misrepresentation and abuse by Gw and family...
If Obama doesn't represent some real change (questionable in a two party power lock) your kids can put their heads between thier knees and kiss their asses goodbye...
over and out...
and this:
Sabotaging Solar Energy
"The budget for the [Solar Energy Research] Institute--which President Jimmy Carter had created to spearhead solar innovation--was slashed [under Reagan] from $124 million in 1980 to $59 million in 1982. Scientists who had left tenured university jobs to work [on the project] were given two weeks notice and no severance pay. The squelching of the institute--later partly re-funded and renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory--marked the start of Reagan's campaign against solar power. By the end of 1985, when Congress and the administration allowed tax credits for solar homes to lapse, the dream of a solar era had faded. The solar water heater President Carter had installed on the White House roof in 1979 was dismantled and junked. Solar water heating went from a billion-dollar industry to peanuts overnight; thousands of sun-minded businesses went bankrupt."
--Arthur Allen, Prodigal Sun, as reported in Mother Jones, March/April 2000
Eddie and Rvrspirit--
Thanks for this additional information, which makes me question further just why reporters continue to prefer horse race over the end of our race questions of those seeking the Presidency?
(Thanks for the kudos, Eddie. Stats have a way of shouting reality all by their lonesome)
eddie=rverspirit (split personality,
it's how I cope with modern living... ;^)
Ah. Many split personalities running about the Internet these days...
Another Eddie sometimes stops by the Frog, so thanks for letting me in on your little secret.
:)
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