I was intrigued to see this headline at the Guardian‘s website yesterday:
Renewable Energy Can Power the World, Says Landmark IPCC Study
UN’s climate change science body says renewables supply, particularly solar power, can meet global demand
This was one of the points Miranda Spencer raised in an excellent piece in the last issue of FAIR’s magazine Extra!. Her point was that in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, media rarely brought up renewable energy like solar, wind or geothermal. A respected scientific body like the IPCC is weighing in now–so that’s got to be news, right?
Sure doesn’t seem like it. There’s a story on the New York Times website, but it didn’t make it into the print edition. A note at the bottom says:
A version of this article appeared in print on May 10, 2011, in the International Herald Tribune with the headline: “Renewable Sources Could Provide 77 Percent of World’s Energy Needs, Report Says.”
The Herald Tribune is the global edition of the Times. Does the Times think its overseas readers will be interested in this, but not U.S. readers?
A glance at the Nexis news database shows that the IPCC report is generally considered more newsworthy outside the United States. The papers reporting it:
The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
Edmonton Journal
The Guardian (London)
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
Irish Examiner
MX
MX Brisbane (Queensland, Australia)
Sydney MX
The Times of India (TOI)
Sad that even FAIR doesn’t know the truth, that wind could power all the energy needs of the world five times over: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/06/19/0904101106.abstract
There are countries that are far better than we are at solar power,wind power etc.Some have been deeply invested for 25 years.To date the best any country can boast is one seventh of their power grid. Nuclear is the best -most cost effective,but we all know the downside. Oil,gas and coal are plentiful but we have an administration that has parsed the lie that at this time -there are alternatives(there are not),and so they have blocked any further move in that direction. Madness.
There has been a virtual censorship of news about anything related to global warming for the past couple of years. All I have seen in the mainstream media is coverage of the manufactured scandal called “climategate”, and brief coverage of international gatherings. Many extremely alarming studies have come out in the past 2 years, but the only place I ever see these mentioned is sciencedaily.com. It used to be that msnbc.com covered this area, but it seems they, along with every other mainstream media organization in the United States, decided the future of the planet and the human race isn’t important enough to cover.
No BrianF it is not any kind of censorship. Just the opposite in fact.The press would love to nail the story to the wall.The science just isn’t there.It was all a fraud.Where is mr 100 million green power guru Gore when ya need him?Working on his assault defense.
That may be a bewitching abyssal of writing, venturesome additional in consummation simple to vie. effective share.a shocking and informative article, that I’m inured to recital.
On a more encouraging observe, one out of two commented earlier. This augers nicely for the long-awaited recovery of demand in your services, probably it would stay elusive for months to come.
Hi fine get you fromyahoo great blog
What happened?