2013 was a huge year for climate change I in fact many different things happen
and you would assume that the press would cover
these incidence now it just to give you a sense of what happened last year
carbon dioxide levels
exceeded 400 parts per million President Barack Obama's major climate policy
address happen
and also there was the relief up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change assessment
so all these issues you would assume the present gonna want to talk about it
right
well here's a little bit of good news up the mainstream press
did cover climate change a little more than they did back in 2012
however if you break it down to look at specific numbers it's not all that great
okay so low blood sugar ABC CBS NBC and Fox in 2013
when you look at all the sunday shows they spent 27 minutes
in total all four of those networks in total
in one year on the hell is a great thing is that that's a dramatic increase in
2012 well it looks like this but about 12 hours
I know its I don't know that we can call that a significant increase that's the
same
its non it's no wonder I mean 27 minutes for the whole year I mean if you look at
nightly news
it's about an hour and 42 minutes and remember your dividing that amongst four
different networks
throughout an entire year so it's depressing news and it makes you realize
you know
obviously people don't a climate change seriously some people do I mean if you
look at public polls
on public opinion you know a chunk of the US population does see it as a big
deal
but what are the reasons why the press doesn't talk about it is because
what they have certain interests that they have to appease little this is
again you know that he was as funny I got that that the Twitter storm question
this is where we part company a little bit were injected I would or you and I
do as well
like the end result is the same as the they'll do their job
we agree on that right the Y I don't know what their motivations are
I don't know I'm not totally buy and corporate interests and that I did
anybody puts pressure on executive reassure the show's to not hammer exxon
I really don't think that
it just doesn't I mean those three things would you used as an example
both significant advance the cause coverage I mean
the release the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment
that's like it now I'm a morning meeting
we just did yeah because it is not and so the ratings
drive it there's no edict from exxon not covered
that's not the beauty that's not as they don't need to because that happens
and because that's left at PBS along for stories which
no one really sees and then they swing into action
legislatively when they need to when they said something going wrong
like or it there's more about the head I but they'll
if like the pendulum swing in now we did now we need a little campaign
and then a moron jenks side in your side at the
folk also don't make to that members of congress
who were amenable 2x Aug to use them as an example
Jackson's point of view but the media pressure
the pressure is what you said the pressure is ratings the pressures
delivery a
a topic night after night after night that the
people will respond to and that will get a number that will keep
you know NBC and ABC and ABC and NBC
a and that is that always been the motivation there wasn't era in the
heyday of
television news coverage led by
with CBS in the nineteen fifties it into the sixties and into the seventies as
well
where the CBS news division really didn't they didn't care about the
ratings
that's always said there was one than but you know
their mission was we had to tell people what they need to know what's important
yeah I'll
I would love to use that strategy now know what's going on it is not coming
back
so when it comes to the type of people that comment on climate change on the
show's
board members and the people that comment on it are scientists which is
really depressing because those are the people that should be calm lie and i
seven is a scientist
exactly true that true that grand total of 169 minutes or whatever deserve
another 29 min
in Thane I media figures make up the largest chunk forty-three percent when I
say media figures it's just you know
random pundits that wanna share their opinion on climate change is it really
happening as a something we need to worry I will be done looking for the
better it is for the best day because
so you get signed as a little other are but 40 percent you get politicians
the scientists other are probably people the other probably people speaking up
for scientists didn't
right like how to balance it out to that average depth 28 percent so politicians
29 says probably
contradictory but three every for those who are republicans
you can find too many democrats are you coming to contradict
scientists on science I am because who would do that
I it's great public and it's crazy come on their well-made
hopefully that's news you can use or snooze you can lose