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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@NBCNightlyNews producers @Matthewfrucci @JamieNguyenTV @KellyNorris14 @jpou @georgeitzhak @Mary_Godie @RyanCRoberts @michelledubert @JasonCalabretta @KReimchen @newsmanjerod @jackson_hudgins @VinDeitch @elizabeth_kuhr @MelnickNBC @JanelleRichards missed the story as well.
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Yes, we know Trump held a rally which was badly attended. Yes, we know that Covid-19 is still developing.
But once we heat up our planet, our only home, we cannot cool it off again on human timescales.
Could you not devote 30 seconds to this ongoing crisis?
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But once we heat up our planet, our only home, we cannot cool it off again on human timescales.
Could you not devote 30 seconds to this ongoing crisis?
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We admire @KatyTurNBC, who managed this week to inform her viewers that @NOAAClimate predicts that 2020 will be one of the warmest years ever in human history.
Be like Katy.
Do your jobs.
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Be like Katy.
Do your jobs.
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One day the world will look back on these decades, and if the world is, then, 3C warmer—if we failed to decarbonize—we will lay a store of the blame with the TV news who failed to report on the #ClimateCrisis in time.
Please don't let that happen.
#EndClimateSilence
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Please don't let that happen.
#EndClimateSilence
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