AlterNet: “Recent studies predict that the polar ice caps will be melting in less than five years,” the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) reporter’s consonants sliced the early morning air. The US government under Bush has long been pretending there was no “real problem” of global warming, and up until recently the corporate U.S. media has been, for the most part, covertly supporting this dish of disinformation while independent and alternative media producers have been reporting the opposite. …