Climate Change/Hurricane Connection Ignored

The extreme weather ravaging the Carribean and Florida may well be linked to climate change -- but you'd never know it by watching the news.

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September 28, 2004, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Tom Engelhardt discusses why the current administration and the mass media are both living in a "bubbledome of folly" when it comes to climate change.

"When it comes to weather news, it's been all-hurricane-all-the-time...And yet something was missing...Ignoring global warming -- and so any preparations to safeguard the world for our children and grandchildren -- is but another form of global terrorism...But in this behavior, as it happens, the Bush administration isn't alone. The American mainstream media has been a major aider-and-abettor in the process."

Thanks to Michael Dudley

FULL STORY: Xtreme weather meets Xtreme media bubble

Monday, September 27, 2004 in TomDispatch

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