Monday, 56 newspapers worldwide are running the same front-page editorial on climate change

[Newsjock]

Source: The Guardian

Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.

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.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/06/copenhagen-editorial

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In the USA, only ONE English-language newspaper is part of this: The Miami Herald. Kudos to them, shame on the rest.
Full list of participating newspapers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/06/papers-copenhagen-leader

[n2doc]

1. Yep. WaPo (AKA Neocon Post) runs a denialist article by Will

Why is it that the USA has the worst big papers?

[Cha]

2. Wow, thanks for this news, Newsjock.

Can't imagine why the US papers except for the Miami Herald are avoiding confronting this crisis of Global proprotions.

[babylonsister]

3. Recommend, and US, get with this program! nt

[endless october]

4. as long as we're really going to solve the problem

and not sign up for some carbon trading scam. i'm completely against more Kyoto-type stupidity.

build nuclear, solar, and wind infrastructure now. build it like we built the interstate highway system. then shut down the coal plants.

sending money and jobs to China while China cheats on carbon caps won't solve shit.

[mr clean]

12. You got that right... Sending money and jobs to China

Sending money and jobs to China while China cheats on carbon caps won't solve shit.

[earth mom]

13. This is exactly what bothers me. Is carbon trading going to be the next Wall St scam?

I don't trust corporate america one bit. x(

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Newsjock.:thumbsup:

[tabatha]

6. I hope they make a print or a t-shirt of it.

[kestrel91316]

7. Yeah, they're all smoking crack. I know the TRUTH about global warming.

I learned it right here on DU while reading about some emails by some British dudes. Now, mind you, nobody produced any evidence that GW ISN'T happening, but THERE ARE EMAILS!!!1!!11!!!

[Old and In the Way]

8. Conservatives hate the fact that climate warming isn't about the US.

Because this issue effects the whole planet, they must deny it. Afterall, if this is a worldwide phenomenon, then we are not the center of solution. We are one player in a collection of 100's of countries that would need to work together to make the solution successful. That'd be a socialist concept...can't have that!

But what if climate change deniers are wrong? They'd be condemning all people on this planet to a future that will be less hospitable for humans. Just to protect their parochial political interests.

[Starckers]

9. The Sky

Is falling. Quoting Chicken Little

[gratuitous]

10. No, it's more like the oceans are rising

Welcome to DU.

[Blue_Tires]

11. ttt

[dysfunctional press]

14. the miami herald realizes that their city's days are numbered.

if the now projected 1.9meter sea-level rise by 2100 happens, miami will be history.