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C'est inédit ce qui se passe actuellement sur le front de l'interpellation citoyenne des médias (surtout audiovisuels) pour les inviter à considérer les questions écologiques (et à mieux les traiter) dans les débats 🧵
🇬🇧 Au Royaume-Uni, si vous ne l'avez pas déjà vue, regardez la séquence de l'émission Good Morning Britain (sur la chaîne ITV) dans laquelle l’activiste Miranda Whelehan s’est retrouvée mardi dernier 😱
Venue présenter la campagne @JustStop_Oil son propos n'a non seulement pas été entendu, mais surtout méprisé et ignoré, offrant une image encore une fois déplorable des médias de grandes chaînes de télévision, avec des présentateur•ices incapables de comprendre les enjeux
At least two reasons serious people might be worried about human extinction (or even just mass death & depopulation to under 1 billion).
1) Folks may view NDCs and other pledges as greenwashing hiding continued financial and political support for the fossil-fuel system.
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1) Folks may view NDCs and other pledges as greenwashing hiding continued financial and political support for the fossil-fuel system.
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2) People may have less faith than scientists do that our technological capacity will enable us to transcend our dependence on this planet.
We ARE in a 6th extinction. Why would humans be spared if it continues to accelerate?
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We ARE in a 6th extinction. Why would humans be spared if it continues to accelerate?
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We cannot take extinction off the table until the emissions curve bends down.
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I'm on my way to DC to watch the #SlipperySix fossil-fuel disinformation hearings with some fierce allies, and I plan to live-tweet the day.
Tonight I want to post some "pre-bunking" of a couple of talking points we're sure to see tomorrow.
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Tonight I want to post some "pre-bunking" of a couple of talking points we're sure to see tomorrow.
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As exposed by @RBrulle @MichaelEMann @GeoffreySupran @BenFranta @NaomiOreskes and others, the cornerstone of the current fossil-fuel disinformation strategy is the rebranding of oil and gas companies as trustworthy partners in the clean-energy transition.
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This rebranding has been achieved largely through false advertising & corporate sponsorship of academic programs, as well integration into scientific events & the COPs.
Hence the need for @cleancreatives and the @adsnotfit2print campaign.
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Hence the need for @cleancreatives and the @adsnotfit2print campaign.
adsnotfittoprint.com
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I am thrilled to announce that in partnership with @EvergreenAction @ClimatePower @350 @ClimateHawkVote @stopfundingheat @YEARSofLIVING & @fossilfreemedia, @EndClimtSilence is today launching a CAMPAIGN to tell @nytimes 💥STOP PROMOTING FOSSIL FUELS💥
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Since founding @EndClimtSilence in 2018, I have come to realize that the biggest problem facing climate journalism is the influence of fossil-fuel money on the executives running news outlets.
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This influence emerges in many ways.
Broadcast network execs are, I believe, insinuating to their production and reporting teams that it's "political" or "biased" to cover the #ClimateCrisis precisely becuz they don't want to alienate their oil and gas advertisers.
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Broadcast network execs are, I believe, insinuating to their production and reporting teams that it's "political" or "biased" to cover the #ClimateCrisis precisely becuz they don't want to alienate their oil and gas advertisers.
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Hi, it’s your friendly neighborhood climate scientist. Facing the #climatecrisis is tough! Here’s the essentials you need to know, tips for finding where you can contribute with purpose and meaning to the work needed, and evidence-based high-impact climate actions. A THREAD: 1/n
(A quick introduction if we haven’t met: I’m a climate and sustainability scientist @lunduniversity in Sweden. I research personal & policy climate solutions, sustainable food & land systems, & wine & climate change. My goal: a world where people and nature can thrive. 2/n)
@lunduniversity #ClimateChange science has been clear for a long time. I’ve taught this framework for over a decade:
It’s warming
It’s us
We’re sure
It’s bad
We can fix it.
(Footnotes: kimnicholas.com/climate-scienc…
Podcast w/ @ylld open.spotify.com/episode/5BrYPH…
Curriculum kimnicholas.com/climate-change…) 3/n
It’s warming
It’s us
We’re sure
It’s bad
We can fix it.
(Footnotes: kimnicholas.com/climate-scienc…
Podcast w/ @ylld open.spotify.com/episode/5BrYPH…
Curriculum kimnicholas.com/climate-change…) 3/n
This week, and maybe next week, elected officials and the news media will be paying more attention to the #ClimateCrisis than they usually do.
Let's make this time count!
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Let's make this time count!
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Use this tool to call your Senators and tell them you want them to pass transformative climate policy in order to win your vote. It's easy and very satisfying! And it will help.
call4climate.com/more
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call4climate.com/more
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Here is contact information for the prime-time network news programs. Reach out to them and tell them you want more climate coverage! Make some noise!
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Last week brought a "crushing day for Big Oil"👇 but you wouldn't know it from the TV news.
Coverage of 👇was almost nonexistent on the prime-time network & cable programs. But @ABC @CBSNews @NBCNews @CNN did, however, run Chevron ads over a dozen times in those slots.🤔🤔🤔
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Coverage of 👇was almost nonexistent on the prime-time network & cable programs. But @ABC @CBSNews @NBCNews @CNN did, however, run Chevron ads over a dozen times in those slots.🤔🤔🤔
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.@LesterHoltNBC @NBCNightlyNews was the outsize winner of last week's broadcasts. He covered all three stories—shareholder climate revolts at Chevron and Exxon as well as the Dutch court case ordering Shell to halve its emissions.
Bravo, Mr. Holt! #EndClimateSilence
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Bravo, Mr. Holt! #EndClimateSilence
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.@chrislhayes covered the Dutch court case on @MSNBC @allinwithchris. He understood that this was a "landmark ruling."
Thank you for your excellent reporting, Mr. Hayes! #EndClimateSilence
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Thank you for your excellent reporting, Mr. Hayes! #EndClimateSilence
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On the Ezra Klein show, speaking about the media's poor initial handling of Covid, @zeynep offered a powerful explanation for the broadcast news' ongoing failure to cover the #ClimateCrisis: the norms governing its institutional behavior are subject to profound inertia.
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Attempting to change norms, we call out broadcast news shows like @ABCWorldNews, @CBSEveningNews, & @NBCNightlyNews, showing them the absurdity of not mentioning the words "climate change" when they report on extreme weather or other stories directly connected to the crisis.
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But outside pressure only goes so far: we need every powerful journalist, producer, & editor who understands the climate threat to help normalize making the connections to climate in stories about its causes and effects—in stories about energy and pandemics, eg.
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This is a LONG thread composed of screenshots of the entire first chapter of Kim Stanley Robinson's novel *The Ministry for the Future*.
Please read it all.
Don't look away.
#climatechange #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency
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"It was getting hotter."
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Please read it all.
Don't look away.
#climatechange #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency
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"It was getting hotter."
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"Here there was no escaping it."
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"All over town the stressed hum of windowbox air conditioner fans buzzed like giant mosquitos."
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Let's be clear: voters lack of climate urgency is not the fault of the climate movement. Ultimately the fault lies with our education system and the news media.
According to @EndClimtSilence polling, the majority of Americans learn about #ClimateChange from the news.
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According to @EndClimtSilence polling, the majority of Americans learn about #ClimateChange from the news.
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And we know that the vast majority of the news media, broadcast news media in particular, never even mentions climate change—and when they do they fail to convey the urgency of the problem or the scope and timing of the solutions.
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The fact that American voters haven't put #ClimateChange in the top three of their list for voting is due to the news media failing to tell the climate story. It speaks all the more to the need to force them to #EndClimateSilence.
#DoubleDown
#KeepFighting
#Onward
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#DoubleDown
#KeepFighting
#Onward
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Guys, this is really, really bad. Our message is not getting through.
In a new @YaleClimateComm @ClimateNexus poll, #ClimateChange came in 13th out of 18 issues "most important" to respondents' votes in November.
People STILL don't understand the urgency.
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In a new @YaleClimateComm @ClimateNexus poll, #ClimateChange came in 13th out of 18 issues "most important" to respondents' votes in November.
People STILL don't understand the urgency.
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If we are not half-way to zero emissions in the next ten years, we are fucked. (Not doomed, of course, but fucked—important distinction.)
Half-way to 0 emissions means we must start NOW.
This is the most consequential election in human history due to THE #CLIMATECRISIS.
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Half-way to 0 emissions means we must start NOW.
This is the most consequential election in human history due to THE #CLIMATECRISIS.
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Everyone who follows me on Twitter knows this, of course.
But voters still don't.
We are failing.
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But voters still don't.
We are failing.
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📢BIG NEWS📢
@EndClimtSilence has teamed up with @DataProgress to poll voters about their attitudes to climate media coverage.
Did previous findings replicate?
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💥Americans want to hear about the #ClimateCrisis in the broadcast news!💥
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@EndClimtSilence has teamed up with @DataProgress to poll voters about their attitudes to climate media coverage.
Did previous findings replicate?
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💥Americans want to hear about the #ClimateCrisis in the broadcast news!💥
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💥A MAJORITY OF VOTERS FOLLOW CLIMATE CHANGE CLOSELY IN THE NEWS💥
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💥A MAJORITY OF VOTERS THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE NEWS MEDIA TO CONNECT CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTRME WEATHER EVENTS💥
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Big wildfires burning in California heatwave; this one on the border with Nevada.
Same (Loyalton) fire
Loyalton Fire now creating tornado with wind speeds over 60 mph = 96 km/h. Via @HansKiesewetter
This past week Biden gave a major speech about his plan to put fighting #ClimateChange at the center of America's post-Covid recovery.
Foolishly I assumed that the Sunday shows would have discussed this speech today.
How stupid of me. They didn't even mention it.
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Foolishly I assumed that the Sunday shows would have discussed this speech today.
How stupid of me. They didn't even mention it.
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Usually when my research assistant tells me that the broadcast news has failed to cover a climate story, I will do back-channel outreach and then, if that's ignored, @EndClimtSilence will take to Twitter to call out anchors and producers for their climate silence.
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But I'm not going to do that today. I am exhausted. And I am filled with a sense of foreboding, since I've seen this happen before.
When I was first active on Twitter, I wrote a thread about attending a 2015 speech Hillary Clinton gave about climate & manufacturing.👇
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When I was first active on Twitter, I wrote a thread about attending a 2015 speech Hillary Clinton gave about climate & manufacturing.👇
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On July 7th, @NorahODonnell reported on @CBSEveningNews that "dangerous heat is threatening more than 200 million Americans."
But she failed to report how this heat is being made worse by #ClimateChange.
Pretending climate change is not happening is climate denial.
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But she failed to report how this heat is being made worse by #ClimateChange.
Pretending climate change is not happening is climate denial.
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.@AliciaReports @megankelty @CBSRhymes @shelvenston @TFenton2 @Javguzman @ErinELyall @CNHorn @_juliemorse @kimsharvey You must add #climatechange to your extreme-weather scripts. Pretending climate change is not happening is climate denial.
Resources in the next tweet....
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Resources in the next tweet....
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Here are scripts, fact-checked by @MichaelEMann @DrKateMarvel and @ClimateHuman. Please feel free to crib.
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"@nytopinion would not, I think, print an OpEd arguing that people don't need to wear masks in public, even though...mask-wearing has been politicized...Yet this is what they do when they print climate denial."
My latest in @WeAreDrilled.
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My latest in @WeAreDrilled.
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This piece was inspired by the conversation about the Cotton OpEd controversy that @michelleinbklyn @FrankBruni and @DouthatNYT had on The Argument last week (great podcast, although I miss @DLeonhardt 🙂).
I hope they, and @katiekings, will consider *this* argument.
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I hope they, and @katiekings, will consider *this* argument.
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@jayrosen_nyu @CJR @CoveringClimate and @mmfa this might be something for you as well
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EndClimateSilence
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#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EndClimateSilence
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This week a Siberian town clocked a temperature of 100F, 32F above normal, the hottest temp ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle. This is both news and a blaring alarm warning us that our children are in danger.
Yet the prime-time network news didn't report it.
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Yet the prime-time network news didn't report it.
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.@clairebrinberg @karameha @EmilyABC @bhenault @estherabcnews @kelly_landrigan @danpeckwx @a_flinchum @MatthewGerman @Ginger_Zee over at @ABCWorldNews all missed the story.
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.@AliciaReports @megankelty @CBSRhymes @shelvenston @TFenton2 @Javguzman @ErinELyall @CNHorn @_juliemorse @kimsharvey over at @CBSEveningNews? They missed the story too.
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Finally got a chance to listen to @emorwee's Heated podcast with @AliVelshi.
Velshi was awesome—smart, honorable, and remarkably forthright—freely admitting that "our [mainstream] media is not built actually to acknowledge" the #ClimateEmergency.
Some takeaways in a thread...
Velshi was awesome—smart, honorable, and remarkably forthright—freely admitting that "our [mainstream] media is not built actually to acknowledge" the #ClimateEmergency.
Some takeaways in a thread...
Velshi sees the #ClimateSilence of TV news, rightly, as a symptom of the systemic power of the fossil-fuel industry, which makes its message simply what passes for news & information.
"You may not know you're getting [its message] all the time, but you're getting it."
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"You may not know you're getting [its message] all the time, but you're getting it."
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Compounding that, the punchy, visual, crisis-driven aesthetic of broadcast news has also seemed to constrain its capacity to cover climate.
"We have [ways] of doing things, and they don't lend themselves to large conceptual discussion."
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"We have [ways] of doing things, and they don't lend themselves to large conceptual discussion."
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The obvious difference here is that people fear that coronavirus is going to kill *them*, but they believe that climate change is going to kill millions of *other people*.
I think this difference presents 2 challenges for the climate movement. We must:
1) show people that climate change actually does threaten the lives of everyone under the age of 30
2) use shaming to make climate action a social norm, whether people feel obligated to help or not
1) show people that climate change actually does threaten the lives of everyone under the age of 30
2) use shaming to make climate action a social norm, whether people feel obligated to help or not
I would also argue that fewer people than you think actually believe in the first place that climate change will kill millions of other people, even if they know that climate change is real.
I mean, have you ever heard a scientist really say such a thing flat out? In the media?
I mean, have you ever heard a scientist really say such a thing flat out? In the media?
The candidates in last night's #DemDebate were eager to talk about the #ClimateEmergency, but the moderators kept shutting them down.
What kind of press corps knows less about politics than the candidates they're holding accountable?
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What kind of press corps knows less about politics than the candidates they're holding accountable?
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@brianneDMR from the @DMRegister should learn that trade policy IS an arm of climate policy.
@CNN should train @wolfblitzer & @abbydphillip to see the ways #ClimateChange intersects with jobs, health care, national security, foreign policy, and economic sustainability.
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@CNN should train @wolfblitzer & @abbydphillip to see the ways #ClimateChange intersects with jobs, health care, national security, foreign policy, and economic sustainability.
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@brianneDMR @DMRegister @CNN @wolfblitzer @abbydphillip #ClimateChange is not a discrete issue for its own silo.
#ClimateChange is remaking the only planetary system that supports our civilization; solving it involves every sector of our economy & politics.
#ClimateChange links to everything discussed in any political debate.
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#ClimateChange is remaking the only planetary system that supports our civilization; solving it involves every sector of our economy & politics.
#ClimateChange links to everything discussed in any political debate.
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Think of this OpEd as climate denial meets peak concern-trolling:
"There is a real danger that the climate debate is deteriorating into a game of name-calling, with oil and gas companies all too often portrayed as opponents of climate progress." nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opi…
"There is a real danger that the climate debate is deteriorating into a game of name-calling, with oil and gas companies all too often portrayed as opponents of climate progress." nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opi…
As if oil and gas companies were just "portrayed" as blocking climate policies from being passed.
As if they weren't ACTUALLY working extremely hard and spending large sums of money to campaign against, oh I don't know, the carbon price @JayInslee attempted to pass in WA.
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As if they weren't ACTUALLY working extremely hard and spending large sums of money to campaign against, oh I don't know, the carbon price @JayInslee attempted to pass in WA.
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The man who wrote this OpEd heads the @TheCLCouncil founded by neoliberal economists, corporations, and oil and gas companies including BP, Shell, Exxon, etc.
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Over the past 30 days, @ABCWorldNews @CBSEveningNews @NBCNightlyNews @MSNBC and @CNN have done 95 segments on the #AustraliaFires, which have killed 17 people and 500 million animals so far.
Only two of those segments mentioned #ClimateChange.
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Only two of those segments mentioned #ClimateChange.
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@ABCWorldNews @CBSEveningNews @NBCNightlyNews @MSNBC @CNN On the 29th, @GarrettHaake interviewed @KendraWrites on @MSNBC's morning show about the links between Australia's bushfires & climate.
It was a great segment; Haake asked excellent questions and Pierre-Louis gave clear, compelling answers.
Too bad it was a total outlier.
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It was a great segment; Haake asked excellent questions and Pierre-Louis gave clear, compelling answers.
Too bad it was a total outlier.
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@ABCWorldNews @CBSEveningNews @NBCNightlyNews @MSNBC @CNN @GarrettHaake @KendraWrites And then on the 31st, @CBSEveningNews patched in a segment on the fires from their Aussie affiliate, which mentioned only in passing that Morrison has been "criticized for his lack of action on climate change."
No explanation for the link between climate and fire. Zero.
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No explanation for the link between climate and fire. Zero.
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I wonder how many Americans outside of climate Twitter really understand that the Australian fires have been fueled by climate breakdown, which is only barely getting underway and will destroy almost everything if we don't end the fossil energy era right now.
20%?
30%?
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30%?
I wonder how many of our elected leaders understand the #ClimateCrisis?
Less than 50%?
More than 50%?
Less than 50%?
More than 50%?
My #NewYearsResolution and my mission for the coming decade is to bring those numbers up as close to 100% as humanly possible.
#EndInateSilence
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This👇is the most important datapoint in climate change politics.
According to @YaleClimateComm, only 42% of Americans think climate change will affect them personally.
Before the Federal govt will act, this number must rise.
And it's 100% a communications issue.
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According to @YaleClimateComm, only 42% of Americans think climate change will affect them personally.
Before the Federal govt will act, this number must rise.
And it's 100% a communications issue.
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@YaleClimateComm Even when people are damaged by climate change, they don't always realize that climate change is hurting them.
That's becuz understanding your lived experience is a matter of interpretation, of framing your life in terms of tribal norms. Understanding happens in *language*.
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That's becuz understanding your lived experience is a matter of interpretation, of framing your life in terms of tribal norms. Understanding happens in *language*.
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@YaleClimateComm Without clear and repeated communication from climate campaigners, the news media, schools and faith institutions, influencers, and "tribal elites," people will simply not understand that climate change is hurting them, even when it's hurting them.
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