Environment & Energy

wtmusic

(39,166 posts) Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:24 AM Mar 2013

NYT serves up bland overview of climate change - once a month - as pablum for environmental critics

"At a legendary but secretive laboratory in California, Lockheed Martin is working on a plan that some employees hope might transform the world’s energy system: a practicable type of nuclear fusion.

Some 900 miles to the north, Bill Gates and another Microsoft veteran, Nathan Myhrvold, have poured millions into a company developing a fission reactor that could run on today’s nuclear waste.

And on the far side of the world, China has seized on discarded American research to pursue a safer reactor based on an abundant element called thorium."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/science/in-search-of-energy-miracles.html?ref=science&_r=0

Monthly? As my young son remarked after his first bite of broccoli: "Phtheh!"

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NYT serves up bland overview of climate change - once a month - as pablum for environmental critics (Original Post) wtmusic Mar 2013 OP

Wow, once a month. They're not going to let anyone steal their thunder as the paper of record, huh? hatrack Mar 2013 #1

Here's a tip cprise Mar 2013 #2

I get your point. wtmusic Mar 2013 #3

hatrack

(59,592 posts)

1. Wow, once a month. They're not going to let anyone steal their thunder as the paper of record, huh?

Reply to wtmusic (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 12:54 PM

Mar 2013

Fuck me, but this is so beyond pathetic I don't even know where to begin.

cprise

(8,445 posts)

2. Here's a tip

Reply to wtmusic (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 07:51 PM

Mar 2013

If you feel like discussing their work but there is no critical info on their page (easy to imagine) then don't link to them.

Links are like food to the Internet food chain: search engines and advertisers rank and pay according to how links propagate.

So when you think about pasting a link, consider how it tastes first. "Phtheh!" should mean don't paste the link at all. IMO it is enough to offer a quote and a comment.

wtmusic

(39,166 posts)

3. I get your point.

Reply to cprise (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 10:41 PM

Mar 2013

I almost always paste a link, because I expect no one to accept my (or anyone's) facts at face value. I want people to check for themselves.

This was more a commentary on the coverage than the article itself. I don't anticipate a lot of NYT in E/E going forward.

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