Claim: Media avoids linking firefighter deaths to global warming to avoid appearance of climatic ambulance-chasing

Claim: Media avoids linking firefighter deaths to global warming to avoid appearance of climatic ambulance-chasing

http://junkscience.com/2013/07/18/claim-media-avoids-linking-firefighter-deaths-to-global-warming-to-avoid-appearance-of-climatic-ambulance-chasing

Inside Climate News reports: Scientists agree that climate change was very likely one of the underlying triggers for the Yarnell Hill wildfire in Arizona that killed 19 firefighters on June 30. But while some of the nation’s media have acknowledged global warming’s link to the tragedy, others have ignored it entirely. The discrepancy highlights an […]

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