Month 8, Day 8: A Cottage Industry Making Custom Astroturf

The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch ran an AP story about the floods in Pakistan, giving me an opportunity of test-driving my new LTE template. Works like a charm.

Pakistan has been taking quite a battering recently. It’s tempting to think of their troubles as disconnected from our own, but the fact is that both the record-shattering heat wave earlier this year and the catastrophic floods are examples of the extreme weather events predicted by climate scientists as a consequence of global warming — just like those freak snowstorms that clobbered Washington, DC this past winter; just like this week’s high temperatures in Saint Louis; just like dozens, perhaps hundreds, of similar extreme weather events all around the world. Unfortunately, perhaps tragically, our national media is reluctant to address this issue straightforwardly. The fact that the phrase “climate change” doesn’t appear once in an article about weather disasters in Pakistan represents a clear dereliction of journalistic duty.

Warren Senders