Early yesterday, the United Nations Environment Program published its annual assessment of greenhouse gas emissions. It described its own findings as “bleak.” Global emissions have risen by 1.5 percent every year for the past decade; top polluters including the US—which is busy pulling out of the Paris Agreement—and China increased their emissions last year. As a result, sharper cuts—of 7.6 percent per year—will now be required to meet the optimal, 1.5-degree warming goal laid out at Paris. NPR’s Ailsa Chang summarized the UN report’s takeaways: “The world is not doing enough. We have to learn from our procrastination. We cannot afford to fail.” The press is still not doing enough on the climate crisis, either, despite some encouraging recent coverage. In general terms, the latest, dire UN report did not attract nearly enough media attention in the US. That’s not to say everyone ignored it: NPR gave it airtime, as did PBS NewsHour, which topped its show yesterday with the report and invited an expert on to discuss it. For a time yesterday, the report also topped the homepage of the New York Times; the story makes it above the fold of its print edition this morning. The same is true of some big papers internationally, notably Le Monde. Many other outlets covered it online. ICYMI: Bad Romance That was as good as things got, though. Unless I missed something, most of the major network newscasts and shows on CNN and MSNBC neglected to cover the report yesterday. What could be... Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'
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Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Wed, 23/03/2011 - 07:10 Lendle, the US-based tool that allows Kindle users to lend their ebooks, has been reinstated after Amazon said that its concern related to its "Book Sync tool". The news that Amazon had locked the services out of its API caused... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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