Hurricane Katrina's Real Name

Ross Gelbspan believes the U.S. media is not telling the Americans the complete story of Hurricane Katrina.

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September 2, 2005, 10:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"As the pace of climate change accelerates, many researchers fear we have already entered a period of irreversible runaway climate change.

Against this background, the ignorance of the American public about global warming stands out as an indictment of the US media.

When the US press has bothered to cover the subject of global warming, it has focused almost exclusively on its political and diplomatic aspects and not on what the warming is doing to our agriculture, water supplies, plant and animal life, public health, and weather."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Katrina's real name

Friday, September 2, 2005 in The Boston Globe

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