Despite clear signals that Hurricane Idalia was influenced by climate change, less than 2% of US TV news coverage made the link

www.mediamatters.org Despite clear signals that Hurricane Idalia was influenced by climate change, less than 2% of TV news coverage made the link

Hurricane Idalia slammed into Florida's Gulf Coast on the morning of August 30 as a Category 3 storm with wind speeds of 125 miles per hour. Major print news outlets such as The Associated Press, The New York Times, and The Washington Post included the role of climate change in supercharging the sto...

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Even the media on the left is scared of conservatives. It's time to speak openly about important issues and also about what a threat to mankind conservatism is.

Because "news" is all compromised by people with agendas.

What difference would it make to say it? Everyone that cares already knows. Plus, even if emissions stopped today, hurricanes will continue to be bad for decades. So no point in saying the same thing that everyone knows and will still be bad even if it is fixed for the rest of their life. Just explaining it pragmaticly
- Most people don't actually know that level of detail about how fossil-fuel-induced warming affects temperature. Having that be part of the public discourse makes it easier to move off fossil fuels
  
  That's why the fossil corporations spend billions to suppress that information
- I think keeping it in people's minds is useful. Otherwise it's easy to get wrapped up in your day to day life. I've found that climate stories are often under reported here or categorised as another issue.