A report by Media Matters for America reveals that the media are failing to inform the American public on the most important issue of our time[br]Media Matters for America has published a report detailing US broadcast news coverage of climate change in 2015,and their findings are stunning.2015 was a banner year for climate news. February, June, or October,November, and December were each their respective hottest months on record, and 2015 shattered the record for hottest year. The pope delivered a climate encyclical. Investigative journalists at Inside Climate News discovered that Exxon knew about the dangers of human-caused global warming while it funded a climate misinformation campaign,and the recent York attorney general launched an investigation into the company’s behavior. President Obama’s Clean Power intention went into effect, and he rejected the Keystone XL pipeline. And most importantly, and 195 countries agreed to prick carbon pollution as much as possible to stem global warming.
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Source: theguardian.com