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Media Linking Killer Tsunami to Global
Warming
(Important Note: Please see all that follows this excellent article,
in RED, below.)
December 28, 2004
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(CNSNews.com) - With the world's attention focused on the
earthquake/tsunami that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in at
least ten countries that surround the Indian Ocean, media
organizations like Reuters are pinning part of the blame for the
catastrophe on "global warming."
"A creeping rise in sea levels tied to global warming, pollution
and damage to coral reefs may make coastlines even more vulnerable to
disasters like tsunamis or storms in [the] future," wrote Alister
Doyle, an 'environmental correspondent' for Reuters, who attributed
the opening paragraph of the story to "experts." However,
Doyle's story did not contain any quotes directly mentioning the
theory of global warming.
Instead, Doyle's narrative referred to the controversial subject.
"Global warming, poorly planned coastal development and other
threats over which humans have some control are weakening natural
defenses ranging from mangrove swamps to coral reefs that help keep
the oceans at bay," Doyle wrote.
Brad Smith of the environmental group Greenpeace was quoted in the
Reuters story, but only as follows: "Coasts are under threat in
many countries ... Development of roads, shrimp farms, ribbon
development along coasts and tourism are eroding natural defenses in
Asia."
According to Doyle, "Scientists say a build-up of heat-trapping
gases in the atmosphere from human burning of fossil fuels threatens
to trigger more powerful storms and raise sea levels, exposing coasts
to more erosion.
"Island nations like the Maldives, swamped by the tsunami, could
literally disappear beneath the waves if seas rise," Doyle added
in the Reuters story without using expert quotes to back up the
assertion. "[I]n Bangladesh, 17 million people live less than one
meter above sea level, as do many in Florida in the United
States," Doyle reported.
Richard Klein, a senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research in Germany, was quoted on how poor regions of
the world are more vulnerable to natural disasters.
"Vulnerability has as much a social dimension as an environmental
one," Klein told Reuters.
Two weeks ago, at a United Nations climate change conference in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, Cybercast News Service reporter Marc Morano mmorano@cnsnews.com spoke [
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\\SpecialReports\\archive\\200412\\
SPE20041214b.html
] with a former member of Greenpeace who had just urged people
attending the conference to ignore the issue of global warming.
"Climate change is a huge thing, but there is very little that we
can do about it," Bjorn Lomborg told Morano. Lomborg, an
associate professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in
Denmark, said world governments would be wise to worry less about
climate change and concentrate instead on problems he considers
solvable, like AIDS, poverty and inadequate sanitation.
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Service.
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