The Weather Channels Response to Trumps Paris Pullout Was Potent and Perfect

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/06/01/the_weather_channel_s_response_to_trump_s_paris_agreement_pullout_was_potent.html

"As you can see in the screenshot above, the Weather Channel’s home page greeted the news with every ounce of righteous outrage it deserved. Its top nine stories—the whole page, on a normal-sized screen—were all devoted to the topic. Two of them covered Trump’s announcement. The other seven methodically explained, in words, pictures, and hard data, exactly why it was so misguided, and why it matters so much.

On cable TV, the Weather Channel itself treated the news with similar gravity, if rather less drama, breaking from its regular programming to offer in-depth coverage and analysis of the climate news. Contrast that with the coverage on Fox News, which trotted out such noted climate experts as former UN Ambassador John Bolton and Rep. Mike Lee of Utah to pooh-pooh the Paris Agreement and downplay the threat that global warming poses.

In case you were wondering, this is not out of character for the Weather Channel. My former colleague Eric Holthaus chronicled its gradual embrace of data and climate science in recent years, highlighted by a 2015 series of original short videos aimed at persuading conservatives to take the issue seriously.

As Holthaus pointed out, the Weather Channel is hardly a bastion of left-wing activism: It’s based in Atlanta and caters to an older, conservative-leaning audience. But the network has concluded that climate change poses a threat that transcends partisan politics. Accordingly, its coverage on Thursday was not explicitly political. Rather, its stories illustrating the damage climate change is poised to wreak—and, in many cases, is already wreaking—amounted to a potent, science-based refutation of the notion that the threat is overstated, far-off, or hypothetical. They include a stirring feature on a doomed New England wilderness; news stories on California’s already-receding coastline and the stunning, imminent crack-up of an Antarctic ice sheet; and an analysis of how the U.S. pulling out of the Paris Agreement is likely to worsen all of these problems and more."

[babylonsister]

1. Thanks! Maybe this will get some attention.

People seem so apathetic/incurious everywhere. Exposure and finally concern is everything.

[mitch96]

2. They also nailed Breitbart

For cherry picking info to push their climate denial..

https://weather.com/news/news/breitbart-misleads-americans-climate-change

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[tavalon]

3. Unfortunately, the orange fuckwit doesn't read.

Just keep eating those cheeseburgers, President of absolutely no one.