Uniting in common cause for the Climate Conferences at Copenhagen, 56 newspapers around the globe for the first time published a common editorial on Dec 7th.
Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year’s inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world’s response has been feeble and half-hearted.
Interesting approach. Pity we did not see more of it in the US newspapers. I learned that only the Miami Herald would run with it, even though editors of other leading US papers offered private agreement with the text. Press freedom? Yeah right…..after all, those leaked emails show that scientists are just milking this stuff anyhow aren’t they?