Posted on 08/15/2004 10:28:56 AM PDT by Zeppo
The blend of passionate advocacy and lucid analysis that Ross Gelbspan brings to this, ... is extremely readable because the author's voice is so authentic.
...p> But as he put together the evidence of the global climate crisis ... he found himself pulled inexorably to do more than simply write about it.
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For a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the top of his game, this is a career detour requiring courage I greatly admire.
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In the course of this transformation, Gelbspan has become a different kind of reporter, one who recalls the great reforming journalists of the first decade of the 20th century ... who not only reported on political corruption and corporate excesses but connected them to larger destructive patterns that had developed in the economy and politics of their time.
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At a time when prominent journalists are writing mea culpas for allowing themselves to be too easily misled in their coverage of the case for war in Iraq, Gelbspan presents a devastating analysis of how the media have been duped and intimidated by an aggressive and persistent campaign organized and financed by coal and oil companies.
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structural changes in the news media, like increased conglomerate ownership, that have made editors and reporters more vulnerable to this kind of intimidation -- and much less aggressive in pursuing inconvenient truths.
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focuses his toughest language by far on the coal and oil industries ... he concludes that ''what began as a normal business response by the fossil fuel lobby ... has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.''
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Gelbspan also criticizes the current administration ... describing its approach to energy and environmental policy as ''corruption disguised as conservatism.'' Again, he backs up his charge with impressive research. Moreover, his critique is far from partisan.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I first read this article without noticing the name of the author, and was about to fire off a note to the NYT's Public Editor about the utter bias and gross lack of objectivity of the reviewer, but then I saw the Algore by-line and decided not to waste my breath. This is the same Al Gore who blamed Republicans for wanting to either starve or poison the children and the elderly. America certainly dodged a bullet by electing George W. Bush instead of this nincompoop!
I blame the sun.
Having Al Gore critique a book on global warming is like having Lenin critique Das Kapital.
There is no cause for worry. Nuclear winter will offset global warming.
> I blame the sun.
It may very well be that the present warming is 100%
explained by increases in insolation (solar output).
However, if the warming trend is real, whatever is at
cause, we face a choice of whether or not to do anything
about it, and if so what.
Shutting off needless hot air sources, like AlGore,
would be a start :-)
When I was in meteorology, we used mercury thermometers that were quite precise; today's stations use electronic instruments that are calibrated infrequently and read by morons.
This is the same Algore who held an anti-global warming pep rally on the coldest day in recent NY history. The only question I would have for this loser is: Why didn't you submit the Kyoto treaty to the Senate for ratification if it was so wonderful?
I think to myself, maybe AlGore is an idiot, leading idiots...
Hearken back to Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", tons of emotive prose and a world wide crusade degrading the standards of living on the poorest of the poor all based on a premise now proved false.
The upside of a Kerry victory this fall?
see: Hungry world 'must eat less meat'
posted here on FR...
Yeah. Kerry is "Snivel Chamberlaine".
Posted without comment as I too am speechless...
full credit given to author - - his observations; not mine.
For discussion purposes only!
Breakup Of The North Pole
From Dirk Dunning
dirkdunning@sprintmail.com
8-15-4
I am stunned almost to speechlessness.
The northeast passage across the siberian polar ice is open. The glaciers on Ellesmere Island and the northern and northeastern shores of Greenland are collapsing within a matter of days. The channel between Greenland and Ellesmere Isalnd is open. And only about 250 miles of ice remains on the north shore of Greenland connecting it to the polar ice. And that is breaking up.
Vast stretches of polar ice are pulverized and floating free in the Arctic ocean. Thousands of square miles of ice are pulverized and on the edge of breaking up into a billion ice bergs.
An immense rent has formed in the ice north of Queen Victoria Island. An even larger tear reaches up from Siberia poking at the north pole itself.
The entire north shore of Akaska is Ice free, as is all of the northern Siberian shore - all the way to the New Siberian Islands and beyond.
The last of the ice blocking the Northwestr passage at the east end of Queen Elizabeth Island is breaking up.
In short, the north pole is falling apart. And some claim global warming isn't real!?
Within weeks, the refreeze should begin. Depending on how long it is before that happens, massive chnages may occur at the pole before the freeze. The polar ice may well break free from land on ALL sides!!
This is one of the most astounding events in all of human history. And where is it on the news????
Instead of attacking the producers and consumers, why not build huge power plants to run air conditioners for the coming heat wave?
Last time, they screamed about the coming ice age and how they had to "Stop land owners and businesses now! Save the Earth", but changed their minds when someone suggested nuclear energy to build warm shelters.
Then, they changed to "The Earth is going to burn up if we don't take control over land and business now! Save the Earth!"
Same motive, different catastrophe.
More pollution will block out the oven-like suns' rays!
The unabomber speaks...
This is the obvious result of "when Watermelons breed."
So are you thinking that Greenland will be again accessible to the agricultural settlements as it used to be? How soon the temperature will have to rise in order to make Greenland a green land again?
What about the threat of global cooling and new ice age? Shouldn't we fight aginst this danger as well?
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