No news is not good news

[biffvernon]

If you go to the front page of Google News https://news.google.co.uk/nwshp you will see not a single mention of the IPCC report or anything on climate change.

There's nothing on the BBC News front page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ but if you go to the Science/Environment page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment/ you get a link to a story from last Friday

On Al Jazeera's front page http://www.aljazeera.com/ there is, right down the bottom, a blog-piece from last Friday.

Nothing at RT News http://rt.com/news/ or on Reuters http://uk.reuters.com/

Congratulations to Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/ whose top story is "Meteorologist vows never to fly again after seeing latest climate report" but it's not a very heavy piece http://news.yahoo.com/meteorologist-vow ... 14509.html

Nothing at all on Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/ of course.

Or CNN http://edition.cnn.com/

And it's not just America, there's nothing on China Daily http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ or on Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ or even Germany http://www.thelocal.de/

One might have expected the Guardian to do better but the only thing on their front page http://www.theguardian.com/uk is an article criticising the BBC's coverage of the IPCC http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/o ... c-sceptics and a very good article it is too, by Fiona Harvey, but it's just reporting on the news media not the news itself.

So what does one conclude? Four days after the publication of the most important report in the history science and the world's attention has moved on to a thousand and one other stories, none of which have anything to do with the extinctinction of humanity.

[clv101]

Did someone mention the Long Emergency nearly decade ago?

[JavaScriptDonkey]

To be fair though it isn't really news.

What headline would you use?

'Scientists bang on about some future emergency.'
'Oopps we don't know why the world isn't hotter despite increasing CO2 but we're sure it will be soon.'
'You and your way of life is killing the kittenz'.

The DM carried a piece though.

[extractorfan]

'You and your way of life is killing the kittenz'.

That's a good one, seriously.

Nobody I know gives a sh*t about the poor of Bangladesh (I heard some politician talking specifically about them as if CC won't affect everyone).

Nobody seems to care about the state of the planet after they die. But everyone loves kittens.

[biffvernon]

Did someone mention the Long Emergency nearly decade ago?

That's a very good synopsis.

[Tarrel]

Only Monday, George Osborne was re-iterating the commitment to shale gas during his conference speech, almost as though the IPCC report had never been published.

[biffvernon]

Michael Fallon was on Radio 4 this morning being wrong about fracking and shale gas lowering prices and ignoring global warming. Twat.

[Ralph]

Did someone mention the Long Emergency nearly decade ago?

Could be. But the same guy who wrote that one has been waiting around for the DJIA to 4000 for so long now that it can only be taken as a joke.

[biffvernon]

Troll alert.

[biffvernon]

I wonder if today's lecture by the OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurría, will reach the main stream media. It's a pretty remarkable lecture, calling for zero carbon emissions and all the more remarkable for coming from the boss of the OECD.
http://www.oecd.org/about/secretary-gen ... ssions.htm

[Ralph]

Troll alert.

Never thought of him that way, but if so, he does it on one heck of a grand scale for sure.