Climate Progress documents a year of No progress

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“Unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases threaten multiple catastrophes, any one of which justifies action.  Together, they represent the gravest threat to humanity imaginable.  The fact that the overwhelming majority of the mainstream media ignored the overwhelming majority of these studies and devoted a large fraction of its climate ‘ink’ in the last 12 months to what was essentially a non-story is arguably the single greatest failing of the science media this year.”

Joe Romm in an excellent – and exceedingly distressing – wrap-up of the climate stories that mainstream media missed in the last year while concentrating – stupidly – on the purported scandal of the stolen East Anglia emails.


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