How Murdoch news holds back Australia’s action on climate change
The only place that they can publish their junk science is in outlets such as The Australian, where they are welcomed with open arms…..
The Murdoch media empire has cost humanity perhaps one or two decades of time in the battle against climate change. Each lost decade greatly increases the eventual economic costs, the devastation to our ecosystems, and the suffering of future generations.
Murdoch media’s battle against climate change action | Independent Australia, 4 Sept 11, Professor Michael Ashley says the science underpinning anthropogenic climate change is rock solid and the Murdoch media empire has cost humanity one or two decades we could have used to battle it.
“………It is in this room that Chris Mitchell, editor-in-chief of The Australian, holds editorial meetings. And it is in this room that reality becomes so distorted that The Australian was able to state earlier this month, “it is in keeping with this newspaper’s rationalist pedigree that we have long accepted the peer-reviewed science on anthropogenic climate change,” while at the same time engaging in a campaign to misrepresent and distort climate science…..
The problem is that on one side of the debate you have 97% of the world’s published climate scientists and the world’s major scientific organisations, and on the other side you have fools. Continue reading
Lawsuit over child with brain cancer, close to nuclear power plant
The demand came about after the parents of a girl sued Exelon claiming their daughter developed brain cancer as a result of living close to the nuclear plant, Dresden Generating Station in northern Illinois.
Judge Orders Exelon to Divulge Radiation Data in Child Brain Cancer Lawsuit, AllGov – News, -Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky, September 03, 2011, Energy company Exelon has been ordered by a federal judge to turn over data regarding radiation leakage from one of its power plants. Continue reading
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