You think it was smokescreen?
Not exactly, real climate change info is rarely covered as it is, but the Trump “News” made this nearly impossible to hear about indirectly.
I guess, most people would ignore this just as they ignored everything before even without smokescreen, despite smokescreen is very commonly used tactic by the bourgeois governments regardless.
No, the story about the Antarctic just wasn’t particularly news, even if the details are. Most people are either already convinced that the threat is real or are so wrapped up in their echo chambers that this will make little policy difference on its own. Doubly so because it is talking about a date decades in the future, which humans are bad at conceptualizing. Where it makes a difference is a steady refinement and reinforcement of climate science.