[MCN] Pathetic, pitiful TV news coverage of the Green New Deal

[Lance Olsen]

Carlos Maza at Vox looked at a broader selection of TV coverage and found the same thing, as he described in a video <https://www.vox.com/videos/2019/3/12/18261856/green-new-deal-tactical-framing-aoc>:

I have watched hours of segments about the Green New Deal and none of them actually explained how it might work. 

Instead, they focus on the politics. Is it gonna pass? Does Pelosi like it? What did Trump tweet about it? 

Everything except: Is it a good idea?


Excerpted from https://grist.org/article/the-green-new-deal-is-pushing-climate-change-into-the-mainstream-media/ <https://grist.org/article/the-green-new-deal-is-pushing-climate-change-into-the-mainstream-media/>

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“The changes experienced by the biosphere over the past century ... have raised concerns about the possibility of rapid shifts from green to desert states.” 

Richard Sole'. Scaling laws in the drier. Nature 13 September 2007

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"What we are witnessing is major hydrologic change," said co-author Jay Famiglietti. 

"We see a distinctive pattern of the wet land areas of the world getting wetter -- those are the high latitudes and the tropics -- and the dry areas in between getting dryer.”

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-102

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"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”

Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change  MAY 2018

Published online: 27 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4 

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