As I predicted last December, FOX News, following its chairman Rupert Murdoch, has changed its stance on global warming. I expected that FOX would begin running disaster scenarios. That hasn’t happened–yet– but News Corporation has announced a plan to reduce emissions, and Murdoch all but promised disaster scenarios to come. In a speech to his employees in Manhattan, reported by Grist’s Amanda Griscom Little, he said:
"The challenge is to revolutionize the [climate change] message. [We need to] "make it dramatic, make it vivid, even sometimes make it fun. We want to inspire people to change their behavior."
Disaster movies can be fun. Expect more from 20th-Century Fox, which made over a half-billion dollars from The Day After Tomorrow. But let’s hope they’re better movies…
Kit Stolz 