Bernie Sanders is right to criticize TV networks for their coverage of climate change. Here are some details 1/ mediamatters.org/blog/2018/11/3…
In their coverage of the recent National Climate Assessment report, CNN, NBC, and of course Fox News all featured climate deniers. CNN in particular kept bringing them back on. mediamatters.org/blog/2018/11/2…
Broadcast news networks only rarely mentioned climate change in their coverage of the California wildfires in 2018 3/ 
Broadcast news networks aired 127 segments on a major heat wave this summer. Only one segment noted that climate change is a driver of extreme heat. mediamatters.org/blog/2018/07/1…
TV networks did a worse job of incorporating climate change into their hurricane coverage in 2018 compared to 2017. 5/
And it's not that 2017 was much better. Broadcast news did a terrible job showing the links between climate change and extreme weather. 6/
When networks did mention climate change in 2017, they almost always were mentioning just what Trump said about it. 7/
That is also ironic, because at no point in the 2016 debates was Trump ever asked about climate change, either in the (numerous) primary or general debates. 8/
We’ve tracked coverage of climate change for years. It’s always been bad. 9/
This cycle, in close races for governor or Senator, climate change was usually ignored in debates.
How bad is it? In 2016 during his run for president Sanders mentioned climate change *4 times more often* than Sunday show hosts. /fin
