With an international
conference on global warming in Kyoto, Japan coming up in December,
the subject of supposed climate change will be a big news story in
the coming months. A foretaste of the bias that may be ahead came in
a brief anchor read on the August 27 Good Morning America.
According to ABC’s Kevin
Newman, "The environmental group Greenpeace says global warming is
posing a serious threat to Arctic animals." Greenpeace, Newman
reported, "says melting sea ice caused by global warming may harm
polar bears and seals because it reduces the production of algae
crucial to the Arctic food chain. Greenpeace also warns that rising
temperatures may melt the snow dens where these polar bears give
birth."
From this report, viewers
could have assumed that every scientist and environmentalist agrees
with the Greenpeace position that human activity is affecting the
climate. This simply isn’t the case. Reporters may not agree with
global-warming skeptics, but shouldn’t they at least acknowledge
that such skeptics exist?
