[Media Overkill] Why would The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board go to such lengths to try and debunk Orrin Hatch flunkie-shill's take on global warming? After all, newsprint is expensive and newshole in this tough economy is precious. (Holly Mullen)
Is it me, or does the idea of moving the polar bears to the Antarctic as a last-ditch effort to save them seem like nothing less than desperate arrogance? ("Some species have to be written off..." WTF???) A few articles recently seem to think it's not only a good idea, but it's the only option left to save the cuddly things.
Now, I'm no Greenpeace-belongin', tree-huggin' hippie (just the boring, run-of-the-mill doobie-smokin' hippie), but I too would love to make sure we do anything we can to ensure their survival. But this? Really? I don't like it one biota!
Yet, there is a certain magical charm about the penguins and polar bears meeting for the first time. Maybe the politicos and talking heads had planned this all along: that the whole purpose of letting the Arctic melt from all this CO2 is so ig'nunt Americans everywhere can finally be right about these animals sharing a frozen habitat.
Will there come a day when you publish a global warming story that doesn't mince words about the facts of global warming? Will we ever see a piece about climate change that doesn't pose the matter as still up for debate?
Are readers, seriously, supposed to look at hayseed nut-job Rep. Mike Noel (R-Kanab) as any kind of authority on the issue?
Aren't there some topics that really, truly don't have two sides?
Coming next week in the Trib: Is a round Earth fad, fiction or fact?
[Euphemistically Speaking] For some inexplicable reason, SLC television meteorologists insist on calling the sooty gunk that hangs in our air "haze." They've done it for as long as I can remember. I used to just blow it off.
But then we had last winter's unforgettable, near-endless inversion. And for the past several days we've been sitting under a high pressure system that is slowly turning the air into soup. Already. Can't wait till January.
I'm thinking it would help us get past our denial about global warming, our carbon footprint and all if our weather men and women could just say the word: SMOG. I mean, "haze" is such a nice little word. Sounds fresh and mellow, and rather feminine. Have chamber of commerce or tourism execs gotten to the TV stations? Have they they urged them to speak in euphemism around bad air? Wouldn't want to scare off potential visitors and conventioneers to this big, pea-soupy basin.
I watched Channel 5 weatherman Len Randolph do an extended forecast today. He predicts the "haze" will clear out late Sunday afternoon, when rain arrives. Ironically, as Randolph chattered on about haze, he stopped a couple of times in mid-sentence. He had to wheeze and cough. (Holly Mullen)
[Media Overkill] Why would The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board go to such lengths to try and debunk Orrin Hatch flunkie-shill's take on global warming? After all, newsprint is expensive and newshole in this tough economy is precious.
