affect on global warming

When the obsessive JonBenet Ramsey fan was arrested in 2006 for making the now understood delusion driven association to her 1996 murder, there were plenty of news worthy events ranging from warrantless NSA wiretapping to terrorism. The viewing public rather tuned in to get a glimpse of the insipid mug of the aspiring murderer slash pedophile. There is a lengthy list of newsworthy topics that need and deserve attention over spotlighting fictitious or non-news breaking updates about JonBenet's case. But following the 'JonBenet Affect' here for awhile now, it seems to me the question might be what in the world hasn't her story touched either directly or indirectly?

Scratch global warming off that list--

Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away

Published at AlterNet

by Larry J. Schweiger

"...Shallow news coverage causes most Americans to underestimate the urgency of the threat of global warming. Television’s failure to adequately cover the climate threat, along with the deliberate opacity created by massive oil and coal advertising, masks the vivid realities of the situation, much like the haze and light pollution blocked out the reality of the night sky...

In September 2006, Katey Walter, leading a US-Russian team of scientists, published an important paper in Nature warning that melting permafrost in Siberia, covering more than 10 million square kilometers of Russia, is releasing five times the amount of methane previously estimated by scientists...

You would think Walter’s shocking findings would be newsworthy. Well, you would be wrong. While Radio Free Europe, the BBC, and NPR found it newsworthy, the mainstream US media was completely distracted by mindless pursuits. At this same time, network and cable channels were in a frenzy, with satellite trucks gathered in front of the Boulder, Colorado, district attorney’s office to report titillating details of JonBenét Ramsey’s warped admirer and supposed killer, John Mark Karr..."