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It's Getting Hot in Here (pt 2)
Author: BobR    Date: 07/07/2021 13:28:27

(Note: this blog is a sequel to a blog post from 2017...)

It is HOT outside. It feels like we're trapped beneath Satan's ball-sack. At the same time, there are plenty of other areas of the country that would LOVE to be in the low 80s first thing in the morning. The entire west coast is baking in record temperatures. Farther afield in Pakistan, there are areas that have "tempuratures beyond what the human body can handle" (spoiler alert: that's about 122F / 50C).

It's not that this could have been predicted or prevented, right? Oh wait - it was. Back then we called it "global warming" (the cause), which was later replaced with "climate change" (the effect) because the former description was "anti-business" (seriously - it's likely a factor why we ended up with Dubya instead of Al Gore).

As we stand at the edge of the precipice, looking down on a potential death spiral of melting polar ice, rising seas, and permanent destruction of our client, cooler heads are necessary (isn't it ironic - dontcha think?). Instead, we had four years of rolling back environmental protections, opening pristine wildlife to drilling, and the dumbing down of the Republican party (which - arguably - has been going on for more than 4 years, but the last 4 have been particularly agregious).

Now for the frosting on the melting ice cream cake, that bastion of journalistic malfeasance FOX "News" is starting its own weather channel:

Later this year, Rupert Murdoch is set to debut Fox Weather, a 24-hour streaming channel that promises to do for seven-day forecasts what Fox has done for American politics, financial news and sports.

[...]

Sean Hannity will not be giving a forecast (yet). But Fox Weather, which will be funded by advertisers, is aggressively poaching star meteorologists from Houston, Seattle, St. Louis and other markets. It is also taking a run at major talent at The Weather Channel, with several Hollywood agents recounting frenzied bidding wars. A top Weather Channel meteorologist — Shane Brown, whose title was “senior weather product architect” — defected to Fox last month despite efforts to keep him.

[...]

Climate change is a broad-based concern. A Pew Research survey in April found that 59% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents believed that human activity contributes to climate change. (The figure is 91% for Democrats and those with Democratic-leaning views.)

Still, some of Fox News’ conservative commentators, including Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson, have a track record of downplaying, if not denying, the threat of climate change.

[...]

Referring to Fox Weather, he added: “How do you address the fact that weather changes are caused to some degree by humans when you have a media property with a history of challenging that fact?”

As if America wasn't already in trouble because a cable channel is allowed to call itself "news", when it is clearly propaganda, now this. We're in big trouble.

 
 
 

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