Mr. Murdoch, You're Off to a Good Start
by David Sassoon - Dec 14th, 2007
The front page of section B1 of today's Wall Street Journal -- the first off the press under Murdoch's ownership -- led with a bit of fundamental, indisputable global warming science: the Keeling curve, pictured here.
Geochemists Chart Carbon Dioxide Levels at 650,000-Year High
That was the headline. Ain't that somethin'? There's really no news in the piece. But that's A-okay.
Most people know the well-known chart from Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, but it's nice to see the paper playing catch up and giving play to this money quote from atmospheric chemist Pieter Tans of the federal Earth Systems Research
Laboratory in Boulder, Colo.
When you look at it, it is shocking how overwhelming the human influence has been on the atmosphere. It is the scientific basis for the whole anxiety we have about climate change caused by human beings.
It's too early to tell whether science will have an influence over the paper's opinion page and its denialist stance on global warming. We'll be watching. And so, we presume, will the five members of the editorial committee, whose names the Journal made public on its editorial page. (Subscription required, though maybe not for long!) They introduced themselves and included this interesting comment:
The contract of which we are stewards also gives News Corp. the right, inherent in ownership, to make business decisions, as well as set the broad policies governing content and makeup of the individual publications.
The committee is an impressive bunch. Take a look, and keep your fingers crossed.
• Louis Boccardi, president and chief executive officer of the Associated Press, the world's largest news
organization, from 1985 until 2003 and its executive editor for a decade before. Mr. Boccardi was a member of the Pulitzer Prize board from 1994 to 2003, and served as chairman in 2002.• Thomas J. Bray, editorial page editor of The Detroit News between 1983 and 2000, and subsequently a columnist for the News. Between 1964 and 1983, Mr. Bray served as a reporter and bureau chief in The Wall Street Journal news department, and also as associate editor of its editorial page. He will serve as chairman of the committee.
• Jack Fuller, retired president of the Tribune Publishing Co., the newspaper division of Tribune Co. Mr.
Fuller was awarded a Pultizer Prize in 1986 for editorials on constitutional issues. Later he served as editor and publisher of the
Chicago Tribune and in 2000 as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize board. He is the author of "News Values: Ideas for an Information Age" (University of Chicago Press, 1996).• Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of "Being Digital" (First Vintage Books, 1995). He is currently on leave from MIT to lead One Laptop Per Child, a not-for-profit organization he also founded to provide affordable computers to the youth of developing nations.
• Susan M. Phillips, dean of the George Washington University School of Business, where she is also a professor of finance. Ms. Phillips served as a governor of the Federal Reserve System from 1991 to 1998 and chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1983 to 1987.
By the way, if you missed it, here's the link to the open letter to Mr Murdoch we posted yesterday, and you can click here for coverage our letter got and ensuing discussion of the issue on NYT's Dot Earth blog.
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If the Carbon Dioxide
If the Carbon Dioxide level still increases with this rate, it's so sad that we could expect global warming sooner.
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