Climate Change Thread

[ReluctantSamurai]

Media bias at its' best (or worst):

https://www.mediamatters.org/broadca...tors-including

Corporate broadcast TV outlets — ABC, CBS, and NBC — aired a combined 114 segments about wildfires on their morning and evening news shows from August 1 to August 31.
All five of these mentions occurred during a 10-day period from August 14-23, which saw California suffer under extreme heat.
Only five of the 114 wildfire segments -- just 4% of them -- mentioned climate change.
This marks the third year in a row that major corporate broadcast TV news shows have mentioned climate change in less than 5% of wildfire segments.
Notably, four of the five climate mentions appeared during broadcast morning programs -- three of which appeared on the program CBS This Morning: Saturday and were noted by CBS meteorologist Jeff Berardelli.
The coronavirus pandemic, which is complicating efforts to fight wildfires and handle evacuations, was mentioned in only 17 of the 114 wildfire segments, or 15%.
California’s exploitative practice of using prison labor to fight the fires, which was significantly reduced because of the pandemic, was mentioned in only 3 wildfire segments.

Nearly half of the wildfire segments that aired on broadcast news over a 10-day period of extreme heat between August 14 and August 23 -- 35 out of 71 segments -- mentioned that the heat wave or extreme temperatures generally help to fuel the wildfires. But only three of these 35 wildfire segments discussing the heat wave also mentioned climate change.

The scientific links of climate change to the region’s extreme heat and wildfires couldn’t be more clear, but viewers of broadcast news programs must have that information as they consume these reports. Broadcast news shows must do better at accurately reporting climate change and other factors involved in the 2020 wildfires -- having only 4% of wildfire segments mention climate change is unacceptable as we face the existential crisis of our time head-on.

I wish data was available for more than just these three media outlets...

And in BREAKING NEWS, California just got nuked!!

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/...s-15557949.php

It sure looks like a mushroom cloud, though....