Thread by @EndClimtSilence

This week there was no mention of climate change on @ThisWeekABC @MeetThePress @FaceTheNation or @CNNSotu, which all focused on the Muller hearings and Trump's racist tweets.

Meanwhile one of the first climate change "positive feedbacks" has begun...

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@ThisWeekABC @MeetThePress @FaceTheNation @CNNSotu The Arctic is on fire. Over 100 peat blazes since June 1st, releasing smoke-plumes visible from space. Last month alone Arctic fires emitted 50 megatons of CO2, “equal to Sweden’s total annual emissions.”

theguardian.com/world/2019/jul…

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@ThisWeekABC @MeetThePress @FaceTheNation @CNNSotu So hot and dry now, Greenland, Siberia, and Alaska are burning like California, releasing carbon into our atmosphere and increasing the amount of heat that will be trapped in our planetary system, drying out forests and peat even further, and so on.

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@ThisWeekABC @MeetThePress @FaceTheNation @CNNSotu What's happening in the Arctic threatens every one of us.

We are in a #ClimateEmergency.

Every single American should know this is happening.

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@ThisWeekABC @MeetThePress @FaceTheNation @CNNSotu Every single American should know that to attempt to halt the unravelling of our habitable planet, we need to draw CO2 emissions down to net zero by 2050 -- which means world governments must develop and implement adequate climate policy immediately.

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@ThisWeekABC @MeetThePress @FaceTheNation @CNNSotu You, along with @ABC @ABCWorldNews @CBSNews @NBCNews @NBCNightlyNews @cnnbrk @CNN & @NewsHour, are the news media. It is your job to inform your viewers about these facts and repeat them until they emerge in our political conversations.

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@ThisWeekABC @MeetThePress @FaceTheNation @CNNSotu @ABC @ABCWorldNews @CBSNews @NBCNews @NBCNightlyNews @cnnbrk @CNN @NewsHour Right now you are not doing enough. You are failing.

The climate emergency is not a science story. It is a story intertwined with politics, corruption, even fraud (see👇).

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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@ThisWeekABC @MeetThePress @FaceTheNation @CNNSotu @ABC @ABCWorldNews @CBSNews @NBCNews @NBCNightlyNews @cnnbrk @CNN @NewsHour Most crucially, the climate emergency is a story about the fact we are in danger. And you have the power to save lives. What are you going to tell your children about how you used that power?

#EndClimateSilence

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