Finding Stories on the Positive Impacts of Global Warming.
Observing that we see a flood of stories that tell of us of the negative impacts of a warmer climate. At the same time we see few stories telling reasons that warmer climates could benefit or that our actions to fight warming could cause harm to people and the environment. So I thought I would look at some of the headlines from Yahoo news with a simple search for “global warming” from AP sources. I gleaned the data from the first 200 results that spanned a time frame of about 9 days. The results are in line with my expectations that we have a stream of stories that tell us the negative impact of warming and little to conversely.Headlines that report doom with regard to global warming:Antartic Base(1), Monuments (27),Report: Warming threatens cultural gems(32), On N.H. Peak, Warnings on Global Warming(64), U.N. warns of effects of global thaw(65), U.N. Warns of Effects of Global Thaw(72), UN: Climate making forest fires bigger(94),On N.H. Peak, Warnings on Global Warming(120),U.N. warns of effects of global thaw(121),U.N. Warns of Effects of Global Thaw(130),U.N. Warns of Effects of Global Thaw(131),U.N. Warns of Effects of Global Thaw(136),UN: Climate making forest fires bigger(175),UN: Climate making forest fires bigger(176),UN: Climate Change Fueling Forest Fires(182),Headlines that indicate positive aspects to global warming or negative impacts of global warming initiatives:U.N. Report: Biofuel Boosting Food Costs(16), NASA chief not worried about climate(178), NASA chief not worried about climate(185)Notes:1) These results also reflect that Yahoo will reissue the same story.2) The story “NASA chief not worried about climate” was included in the short list but in reality the story took time to point out he was out of step with the rest of science.Update: “Caribbean Corals In Danger Of Extinction: Climate Change, Warmer Waters Cited As Leading Cause”
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