Posted on 12/06/2009 8:31:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge
LONDON (Reuters) – Humanity faces a profound emergency and unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, a joint editorial published in newspapers in 45 countries said on Monday.
The 56 newspapers said they were taking the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice to implore world leaders to "make the right choice" at U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen.
"The politicians in Copenhagen have the power to shape history's judgment on this generation: one that saw a challenge and rose to it, or one so stupid that we saw a calamity coming but did not avert it," the editorial read.
Two-weeks of talks open on Monday seeking to agree curbs on greenhouse gas emissions and raise billions of dollars for the poor in aid and clean technology.
The talks end with a summit of 105 world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, on December 18 and must overcome deep distrust between rich and poor nations about sharing the burden of costly cuts in carbon emissions.
"Climate change has been caused over centuries, has consequences that will endure for all time and our prospects of taming it will be determined in the next 14 days," ..
It was published in 20 languages, including Chinese, Arabic and Russian, in newspapers including the Guardian in London, Le Monde in France, the Toronto Star, Gulf Times, Botswana Guardian and Miami Herald.
"This should not be a fight between the rich world and the poor world, between east and west. Climate change affects everyone, and must be solved by everyone.
"The science is complex, but the facts are clear. The world needs to take steps to limit temperature rises to 2C, an aim that will require global emissions to peak and begin falling within the next 5-10 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
These climate pukes are getting desperate.
...do you have any idea how wasteful it is printing up millions of newspapers no one reads every day?
MMMM, polar bear, the other white meat :)
Anybody else notice what is conspicuous by its absence?
That's right - the name of the author.
Exactly whose "one voice" are these newspapers speaking with? Did this hectoring editorial spring fully-formed from the Ministry of Truth, or did it flow from the pen of a single true believer? Who organized and paid for this appalling display of compliant and unquestioning group-think? And how much do they stand to benefit if Copenhagen saddles the world with massive taxes and forced wealth transfer, corruption, and a lower standard of living for future generations?
That's right - the name of the author.
Author? We don't need no steenkin' author!
My cherry tomatoes are frozen. They were still growing the other day, with new blossoms and even a new head of broccoli. Down to three new roses and they are drouping too.
Now I have frozen vegetables, a day or two earlier than last year’s snow in DC.
GORE!!!!!
Disgusting
2008: The Death of Journalism
2009: The Death of Science
2010: ?
LONDON (Reuters)The major problem we have with "the media" lies precisely in the fact that "unprecedented" is the last word with which to describe Big Journalism "speaking with one voice.". . . a joint editorial published in newspapers in 45 countries said on Monday.
The 56 newspapers said they were taking the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice to implore world leaders to "make the right choice" at U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen.
It may be unprecedented for Big Journalism to openly speak with one voice in the editorial pages of its various fronts - but it is business as usual for them to speak with one voice on the front pages of its various fronts. In the "objective journalism" con, it is story selection and story emphasis, far more than in the tendentiousness of the stories (bad as that can be) which is the core of the tendentious of journalism. And, being in the same business, all journalisms have the same incentives which bias their story selection/emphasis. Those incentives boil down to a need/desire to hype the importance of their own work.
BTTT
Buy stock in wool sweaters.
I went through Reuter’s web site about a week ago. There were no climate gate articles to be found.
Thanks for the ping/post, c_I_c. This softball was served up on a silver platter for you. You’ve hit them out of the park with your work on this forum. Your line shot up the middle here sends a nice message. You’re still batting 1.000.
Great thread. Thanks to EVERY poster.
OUTSTANDING graphic. BTTT!
OUTSTANDING graphic. BTTT!
The world’s so-called journalists now administer some large-scale propaganda. So much for independence.
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