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Rep. John Shimkus, Chairman House Subcommittee on the Environment and Economy Sen. Barbara Boxer, Chairwoman Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Sen. David Vitter, Member Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Dear Rep. Shimkus and Senators Boxer and Vitter,
The TV news has much reported the situation of a Russian ship being frozen in the ice at the South Pole, with both Chinese and Australian icebreakers thwarted in their attempts to release it.
News Busters reports that the Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was stranded in the ice while on a climate change research expedition, yet nearly 98 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers failed to mention their mission at all. Forty out of 41 stories (97.5 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with the expedition.
I guess it would look a little stupid to admit that a research mission intended to prove the existence of global warming got frozen in the ice.
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