Climate Change: How Come US Newspapers Don't Like This Issue?

My friend Ian Katz, a senior editorial figure at the Guardian newspaper in London, and a prime mover of an initiative to create one editorial on climate change that a coalition of newspapers around the world publishes today, writes to ask my opinion of "why no major US newspapers would play."

The project has 56 newspapers in 45 countries (representing 20 different languages) publishing an editorial meant to firm up the moral ardor of the nations gathering this week in Copenhagen to work on a climate change treaty. But, except for the Miami Herald, nobody else has signed on in the US.

The editorial itself is not that controversial. True, it lambastes the US--"the world finds itself at the mercy of American domestic politics"--as a stumbling block to the treaty. And it threatens on-rushing doom--"climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security"--but this is largely liberal-editorialist global-warming boilerplate.

The more interesting question is not about the sentiment, but why US newspapers are so reluctant to join a bandwagon.

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