Well, although nothing substantial has happened yet at Durban, South Africa, I think it is still worth mentioning that such an important meeting is taking place.
So I just did a search. This is what I found:
No mention of COP17 climate talk in Durban, South Africa on front page:
- NYT, no mention even on “World”
- Foxnews, no mention even on “World”
- Washington Post: mentions on “World”
- The Guardian, mentioned it on “World”
- ABCNews, no mention even on “World”
- Google News
- CNN, no mention even on “World”; massive black hole makes front page
- CBSNews, no mention even on “World”
- NPR, but has it on “World”
- MSNBC, no mention even on “World”
Those who mentioned it:
- BBC
- Huffington Post (barely)
- Xinhuanet (Chinese, featured)
- Zaobao (Singapore, somehow mentioned)
- Yahoo News (two links!)
- Bing news (1 link)
- The Onion (related article)
- United Nation News (of course)
- USA Today (but basically bashing Gingrich for denying his previous support for taking actions about climate change and cap-and-trade; also make it sounds like climate change is not true)
…. Our planet is doomed.
Those who did not report about Durban climate talks, seem to prefer news that a planet presumably located in a habitable zone of another solar system is found. Ironically, I do not think we can migrate to that planet before ours is destroyed.
Also, I think that it seems Africa is going to be hit very hard by climate change. But that is basically off most people’s radar.
I think the mainstream media’s coverage of climate change has improved slowly over time. You can no longer ignore the “once in a life time” disasters that are happening every other year. Just last month or so, California was so flooded.
Nonetheless, even though I heard about how half of Pakistan was under water, it was actually quite difficult to find reporting in details on it. It is simply not discoverable. And I am not sure how people get this type of news nowadays, if most people rely on algorithms from Google and Facebook to receive news.