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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe Are in a Climate Emergency, America': Anchorage Hits 90 Degrees for First Time
From the article:
"At 5 pm [Thursday] afternoon, Anchorage International Airport officially hit 90 degrees for the first time on record," the Anchorage National Weather Service announced in a tweet early Friday.
To read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/05/we-are-climate-emergency-america-anchorage-hits-90-degrees-first-time-recorded?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email
And as this happens, the US corporate media devotes less coverage to climate change, and Trump promotes coal.
Mike Nelson
(9,971 posts)
MSNBC looks like all reruns... FOX won't play it up... have CNN on and they are all Trump & Biden.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)That leaves more time to cover Trump's tweets.
theophilus
(3,750 posts)and in clever ways. We are going down as a species....and not in a good way.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Our children will suffer.
theophilus
(3,750 posts)MLAA
(17,338 posts)tazkcmo
(7,303 posts)They wash it and everything!
sarcasm
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And they white wash the destruction that coal causes.
tazkcmo
(7,303 posts)Unfortunately, you are correct.
Sienna86
(2,150 posts)I do a lot, but we need someone who can inspire us as a nation to do everything we can in this crisis.
triron
(22,025 posts)but; alas, her emails and the Russians, etc.
Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)But, as you said, the emails.
And the fact that former energy lobbyists are running the country is ignored.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And politicians who are aware of the problem, and will do something.
triron
(22,025 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And ignoring a true existential threat.
demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)simply reported the record breaking heat as something interesting, with no context or explanation.
demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)but not in the last year.
As if ignoring it will make it go away?
PSPS
(13,620 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Good question though.
theophilus
(3,750 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)that McDonalds will turn into hamburgers.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,077 posts)... eom.
spike jones
(1,689 posts)[link:|
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,077 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 6, 2019, 04:12 PM - Edit history (1)
... the fourth day this week that they had hail. The flowers I planted for her(my aunt) the past month are decimated.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)It caused a lot of damage. But all of these unusual weather events are reported as simply unusual instances of weather, with no mention of climate change.
triron
(22,025 posts)sheshe2
(83,940 posts)True Dough
(17,337 posts)Here's what I found:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/us/alaska-record-heat-trnd-wxc/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/anchorage-alaska-hits-90-degrees-record-shattering-heatwave-n1026876
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/weather/2019/07/05/with-a-high-of-89-anchorage-sets-an-all-time-high-temperature-record/
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Anchorage-breaks-all-time-record-high-512239762.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/anchorage-hottest-day_n_5d1eefa4e4b04c4814117eb1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/07/05/record-crushing-heat-torches-alaska-anchorage-hits-all-time-high/?utm_term=.efdabc3e342d
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/05/738905306/it-was-a-balmy-90-degrees-yesterday-in-anchorage-for-the-first-time-on-record
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-hit-with-record-high-temperatures-and-wildfires-today-2019-07-05/
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/451773-anchorage-sets-record-with-first-90-degree-day
Seems to be a false narrative here in regards to the media ignoring the story.
triron
(22,025 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Maybe sooner.