How the media avoids the truth about rapid climate change

 This article from the Times of India illustrates clearly the somersaults of governments and media do to avoid talking directly about the huge elephant in the room. No larger an elephant than in the Indian Himalaya.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/tragedy-could-be-result-of-very-rare-bursting-of-water-pockets-in-glacier/articleshow/80740143.cms

The article does what media all over the world and devotes a lot of space to the proximate causes of the tragedy but almost as an afterthought say "there is no doubt that global warming has resulted in a warming of the region"

This is the extent of it all.  This is the voice of an Indian bureaucrat (and they don't come any more bureaucratic than in India)

But in talking of this they feel obligated to pray before a shrine and intone a mantra

It is all part of a general trend where global warming is talked about. in general but avoided in particular. Why do they not talk about HOW the region has warmed and what the consequences have been.

But that is for specialist articles that no one will see.

Just looking at footage I can see at a glimpse how the climate and the environment has changed since I was last in India in 1993. I don't need any graphs or scholarly articles that leave out of the picture more than they reveal.

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They do a little better in this article

Despite the article focusing on climate change the closest you get to specifics is this;

And then this:

Leaving aside mantras about reducing CO2 emissions measuring and monitoring the unfolding catastrophe is about all they can do with lots of hand-rubbing and head-scratching along the way

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/climate-change-behind-uttarakhand-glacier-burst-experts-feel/articleshow/80736594.cms