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....

[Shaka_Khan]

[Shaka_Khan]

The speed at which the situations worsen over time seems to be exponential...

[ReluctantSamurai]

Oh, but the world's "leading climatologist" sez "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch." "I don't think science knows, actually".

https://www.politico.com/video/2020/...ifornia-090147

The naivete of Wade Crowfoot in literally pleading with Trump shows he understands very little about the man

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Oh, but the world's "leading climatologist" sez "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch." "I don't think science knows, actually".

https://www.politico.com/video/2020/...ifornia-090147

The naivete of Wade Crowfoot in literally pleading with Trump shows he understands very little about the man

Trump as his crowd -- schooled by Limbaugh's views on the matter for two decades -- are that we are in a natural warming phase of the Earth's temperature/climate cycle and that attempts to ascribe primacy for this climate change to anthropomorphic action are not supported by definitive science but are, instead, the product of incomplete scientific assessment that has been taken up as a leveraging tool by socialist/anti-capitalist/anti-US-hegemony forces to take the USA down three or four notches and continue to press for world governance and the expense of US sovereignty and personal freedoms.

As such, "It'll start getting cooler," is no less valid than all of science because they view the science as having been corrupted/suborned an inherently untrustworthy.

[ReluctantSamurai]

As such, "It'll start getting cooler," is no less valid than all of science because they view the science as having been corrupted/suborned an inherently untrustworthy.

I would argue that this crowd doesn't believe in science at all.

we are in a natural warming phase of the Earth's temperature/climate cycle and that attempts to ascribe primacy for this climate change to anthropomorphic action are not supported by definitive science

I'm pretty sure that climatologists understand that Earth's climate has cyclical patterns of warming and cooling Nah, it's the same old same old......money. Right now the money is on fossil fuels, although that's changing (not so much in the US if Fearless Leader gets re-elected).

[Montmorency]

Wrong thread plz delete.

[Montmorency]

Trump as his crowd -- schooled by Limbaugh's views on the matter for two decades -- are that we are in a natural warming phase of the Earth's temperature/climate cycle and that attempts to ascribe primacy for this climate change to anthropomorphic action are not supported by definitive science but are, instead, the product of incomplete scientific assessment that has been taken up as a leveraging tool by socialist/anti-capitalist/anti-US-hegemony forces to take the USA down three or four notches and continue to press for world governance and the expense of US sovereignty and personal freedoms.

As such, "It'll start getting cooler," is no less valid than all of science because they view the science as having been corrupted/suborned an inherently untrustworthy.

I would offer an amendment to this: the bulk of deniers - the ones who aren't conscious professional liars - don't have any fixed beliefs on the etiology or reality of climate change. The ideas they'll profess to hold are typically fluid and situational, i.e. anything that serves to contradict the climate consensus in the immediate moment. They have no problem contradicting themselves, because rational argument or even a defense of earnestly-held beliefs is not their domain. You might even call it -

I'm pretty sure that climatologists understand that Earth's climate has cyclical patterns of warming and cooling Nah, it's the same old same old......money. Right now the money is on fossil fuels, although that's changing (not so much in the US if Fearless Leader gets re-elected).

for the bulk not solely motivated by pecuniary blandishments - a form of identity politics metonymous to all the rest, bizarrely but genuinely inseparable from the broader supremacist project and mindset.