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11-18-08 RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The largest newspapers in the country failed to make the connection between our food system and global warming, according to a Johns Hopkins study appearing in the journal Public Health Nutrition. Despite a pair of United Nations reports that cited livestock, meat production, and farming as major sources of global warming emissions, the press did not give the subject very much attention in the past three years, the study finds. Food production and agriculture were cited as contributors of global warming pollution in just 2.4% of articles about climate changeThe term 'climate change' is sometimes used to refer to all forms of climatic inconsistency, but because the Earth's climate is never static, the term is more properly used to imply a significant change from one climatic condition to another. In some cases, 'climate change' has been used synonymously with the term, 'global warming'; scientists however, tend to use the term in the wider sense to also include natural changes in climate.. Less than 1% of climate change articles connected greenhouse-gas emissions to livestock and meat production.

THE DETAILS: Study author Roni Neff, PhD, research director for the Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and other researchers searched for “climate change” and “food and climate change” in articles published between Sept. 2005 and Jan. 2008 in the nation’s 16 largest-circulation newspapers. Those papers included The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Rocky Mountain News (Denver), Houston Chronicle, New York Post, Detroit Free Press, Dallas Morning News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Boston Globe, Newark Star-Ledger, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arizona Republic, Long Island Newsday and San Francisco Chronicle. The study was funded by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.