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End Climate Silence
@EndClimtSilence
a volunteer organization dedicated to helping the media cover climate as "an everything story" whose villain is fossil energy
Jul 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
In today's HEATED, @emorwee profiles @ChrisGloninger, who resigned from @KCCINews after getting repeated death threats for covering the #ClimateCrisis.

Gloninger has since gotten 100s of encouraging emails—and says he would have stayed at his post had he gotten them earlier!

🧵 Image It cannot be emphasized enough that climate deniers are VOCAL and ACTIVIST, and if we want to see more and better climate reporting, we also have to be VOCAL and ACTIVIST.

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May 31, 2021 • 12 tweets • 8 min read
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.🤔🤔🤔

🧵 .@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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Feb 9, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
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.

THREAD 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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Jul 13, 2020 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
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.

1/n .@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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Jun 21, 2020 • 8 tweets • 11 min read
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.

1/n .@clairebrinberg @karameha @EmilyABC @bhenault @estherabcnews @kelly_landrigan @danpeckwx @a_flinchum @MatthewGerman @Ginger_Zee over at @ABCWorldNews all missed the story.



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Jan 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
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?

THREAD @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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Jan 2, 2020 • 10 tweets • 24 min read
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.

[Thread] @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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Aug 17, 2019 • 14 tweets • 49 min read
So last month @NOAAClimate announced that July 2019 was the hottest month in all of human history.

The world is sailing into uncharted territory, where humans have never existed.

So how did the television networks report this news? Mostly?

THEY DIDN'T

*thread* @NOAAClimate @LesterHoltNBC @NBCNightlyNews, produced by @Matthewfrucci, failed to mention the historic and hugely important fact that July was the hottest month in human history. They performed full on climate silence.

#EndClimateSilence

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Jul 29, 2019 • 8 tweets • 14 min read
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...

[Thread] @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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May 13, 2019 • 14 tweets • 10 min read
Oh hi Sunday News Shows! Enough surreal and insane business as usual.

It's time for you to start talking about the #ClimateEmergency and the #SixthExtinction.

We are in danger.

No more excuses.

@ThisWeekABC We'll start with you.

Ready?

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1/n .@jonkarl You asked @SenBooker about his gun policy & Medicare for All. Why didn't you ask him where his climate policy is?

Don't you know that we have 12 years to halve and 30 years to end CO2 pollution in order to have merely a > 66% chance to halt warming at 2C?

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May 11, 2019 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
We are thrilled to see this @CJR piece recommending that #climatechange be part of every journalist's beat!

This is what we've been calling for since our founding in September.

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cjr.org/watchdog/clima… Hear hear! Climate change is not a story just for the environment or the science section.

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Apr 22, 2019 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
We at EndClimateSilence.org are calling for reporters and anchors to mention climate change in the stories they are reporting about its effects.

We also ask reporters and producers not to suppress their efforts!

[Thread] Here's the background: in conversation with a reporter on a national beat at a major newspaper, we learned that this writer once tried to mention climate change in a story but was told by their editor that doing so would be "political."

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Mar 22, 2019 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
We at EndClimateSilence.org want reporters to mention climate change in the stories they're already reporting about their effects.

But how can these reporters be confident in linking their stories to climate?

This thread offers some tools....

1/n Your first resource is the 4th National Climate Assessment, specifically the "Report Chapters" on particular US "Regions."

nca2018.globalchange.gov

Wondering if the latest science has established a link between climate change and an extreme event? Start there.

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Mar 18, 2019 • 11 tweets • 14 min read
This is one of the most shocking cases of #climatesilence we've ever seen.

@adeelnyt writes an entire article in the @nytimes about the context of the #NebraskaFloods and fails to mention climate change even once.

nytimes.com/2019/03/18/us/…

1/n Newsflash! The midwestern floods from the bomb cyclone ARE linked to climate change.

@gaarder in her @OWHnews article made those links clear, quoting both James Hansen and @MichaelEMann. She is a model to reporters everywhere.

omaha.com/weather/record…

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