It's just out. In eastern Europe, Greenpeace activists, who saw the handwriting on the wall and abandoned the whaling issue earlier this year, have been having an even tougher go of it protesting nuclear power plants. After repeatedly getting beaten up in recent months for staging noisy, on-site demonstrations, they tried to be a bit less confrontational in Bratislava, Slovakia. The results were no better. Republican Leadership often seems to want to climb on a bandwagon just as others are getting off.
State climatologists, for example.
In October, a survey commissioned by the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation asked state climatologists if they agreed with President Bill Clinton's claim that global warming is no longer a theory but a fact and that there is ample evidence that human activities are already disrupting the global climate. The media, for example. A survey of the three major U.S. television networks, conducted by the Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs, reveals that in 1990 environmental issues made up 2.74 percent of the broadcast news stories, making it the 9th most popular topic. By last year, however, coverage of environmental issues had decreased by two-thirds to .86 of the total, and had dropped out of the top 10 altogether. Environment Writer, a publication of the Washington-based Environmental Health Center and generally a promoter of activist journalism, reported the above result in its September issue with some dismay.