Jerry Brown: News media ignoring climate change

[Newsjock]

Source: Sacramento Bee

Gov. Jerry Brown complained bitterly this morning that the news media ignores climate change, in a speech attended by more than a dozen photographers and reporters.

If you take a look at Google and type in 'global warming news,' I venture to say on most days in the news, 20 to 30 percent, if not more, of the news, will be by climate deniers or skeptics, whatever you want to call them," Brown said at a conference with climate scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center. "Everything these guys are saying either is not true, not relevant or totally distorted -- or it's not important."

The Democratic governor, who has made climate change a focus of his administration, compared interest in the event to recent news that the Bay Area will host football's Super Bowl in 2016.

"I mean, compared to getting the 50th Super Bowl, this stuff is silly," Brown said. "It's just a bunch of scientists talking. What really counts is the stuff you're going to read on the front page tomorrow. You're not going to hear about this. It's not allowed, because this is not news. News is something else. This may be true, it may be fundamentally important, but it's not news and therefore it cannot be printed in the American press."

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/05/jerry-brown-says-news-media-ignoring-climate-change.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. Also, ignoring health care ridiculousness. Please, governor, bring back CA single payer bill!

Not to change the subject, but...

http://californiaonecare.org/

[Ezlivin]

2. He hasn't read the headlines 20 years hence

Then he'd see that there was plenty of coverage concerning climate change.

He'd read long articles decrying how politicians used to deny climate change and mock scientists. He'd read how some of these politician's names were turned into memes and used as an abbreviated way to indicate ignorant people who mock science.

[otherone]

3. (~}:-}

[CountAllVotes]

4. K&R!!!