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CNN Ignores Major Climate Report, But Fox News Does Something Even Worse (Click here to read more)

By Andrew Breiner

April 2, 2014

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On Monday, someone who just watched Fox News wouldn't know that a U.N. panel's report said that "breakdown of food systems" and "violent conflict" are likely impacts of even low levels of climate change over the next 100 years. But MSNBC's coverage gave a thorough look at the risks detailed in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate change impacts, as well as the woeful state of efforts to mitigate its effects or cut carbon.

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The day the report came out, CNN devoted one minute and eight seconds to two segments giving a basic review of its contents, MSNBC spent 19 minutes and 49 seconds covering it in depth over a total of five segments, and Fox News dedicated five minutes, mostly to attacking the idea of climate change or of studying it at all.

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If a viewer was watching Fox, they learned that the main issue is whether it's "alright for you to exhale without paying tax to the United Nations," as Claudia Rosett of the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Neil Cavuto on his show. The short segment mocked the idea of the U.N. paying any attention at all to climate change as long as there are other issues like Russia and Korea to address. Neither Rosett nor Cavuto offered any possible course of action the U.N. could take on any issue, instead throwing out recommendations like "doing things to stop North Korea." Both indicated they thought the U.N. would somehow profit from people knowing about climate change. At no point did they discuss the contents of the U.N. report or show any signs they were familiar with it.