Barack Obama’s inauguration generated unprecedented media coverage around the world.
Turns out the event generated an astounding 35,000 stories in the world’s major newspapers, television and radio broadcasts within 24 hours. That’s 35 times more than the 2005 inauguration — enough to cause the clear cutting of several major forests, increase global warming by several degrees, and swamp Washington, D.C. under several feet of globally-warmed glacier water.
The inauguration of George W. Bush in January 2005 triggered only about 1,000 stories around the world.
Who’d a thunk? Bush was better for the environment than Obama.
