Well, here's my first post on my online Geo-Journal, or as it could more aptly be called, my Geo-Blog. Unfortunately, that does not have the same alliterated ring to it as "Geo-Journal", but it does start and finish with the same letter, and that's got to count for something. But I digress. I've chosen to focus on the topic of Climate Change.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061030.wenviron1030/BNStory/International/

Story number one, entitled "Blair calls for 'decisive' action on climate change", was published on Monday October 30th in the online edition of The Globe and Mail, and there is no author given.

This article reports British Prime Minister Tony Blair's introduction to the Stern report, which is a 700-page report about the economic effects of climate change. According to Blair and the Stern report, if something is not done to combat the effects of climate change and reduce the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause it, it will be disastrous to the world's economy. The article uses the comparison often tied with this report, which is that climate change at its current rate could end up costing more than the great depression and the two world wars combined.

I wasn't able to find a bias in this article, as it essentially just lays down the facts.

Bjorn Lomborg of the Opinion Journal (opinionjournal.com) has written an article criticizing the Stern report, calling it "sloppy", "dodgy", and "flawed". It does bring up some good points, though its bias is very clear, and for me just ends up making me wish that somebody would come up with some reliable, complete, unbiased facts.