Show threadBrad JohnsonOct 16, 2024

The short explanation is that the US is a petrostate.

Fealty to fossil-fuel polluters has little to nothing to do with what voters want.

The fealty is structural, embedded in our institutions - industrial and military of course, but also academic, journalistic, cultural, financial.

#climate #uspol #kamalaharris #gop #trump #climatesilence #fossilfuels #bigoil

Brad JohnsonOct 16, 2024

good reporting by KFile such as it is but it fails to explain *why*.

It's why McCain went from championing strict climate legislation in 2004 to picking Palin as a running mate in 2008.

Why Obama talked about shutting down coal companies in 2008 to climate silence in 2012.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/harris-oil-companies-emissions-kfile/
#climate #uspol #kamalaharris #mccain #gop #obama #climatesilence

KFile: Kamala Harris pledged to prosecute oil companies over emissions. Now, she’s praising their record US production

When Kamala Harris ran for president in 2019, she repeatedly warned oil companies they should be prepared to face hefty fines and even criminal prosecution under a future Harris administration for their role in contributing to climate change.

CNN
Brad JohnsonOct 8, 2024

boy does the New York Times work hard to not say "fossil fuels" these days.

Watch out for those "human-caused forces that have been bringing abnormal heat"!

lol.
#milton #climatesilence #climatechange #fossilfuels
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/07/climate/gulf-mexico-ocean-temperature.html

See the Ocean Heat Fueling Hurricane Milton, in One Chart

The waters of the Atlantic Ocean have been abnormally warm, providing copious amounts of energy that can intensify storms.

The New York Times
Doug BostromJul 22, 2024

“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like [it] is putting forward any message,” director Lee Isaac Chung, who grew up in Oklahoma’s tornado belt, told CNN. “I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.”

Strange day when a film director says films are best when empty of meaning.

Twister 2O24 is crafted to convey only empty visceral sensation? Lifetime is a budget. Why spend 122 minutes on nothing?

#ClimateSilence

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/20/hollywood-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?

Twisters is the latest in a long line of movies that fail to address the environmental emergency – experts say it’s a missed opportunity

The Guardian
Brad JohnsonJun 27, 2024

In today's Hill Heat: Long-time federal prosecutor Cindy Cho, in a prosecutorial memorandum, lays out the case for charging oil majors with second-degree murder or reckless manslaughter for the July 2023 Southwest heat wave, with Maricopa County alone recording 403 heat-related deaths.

#climate #summerofheat #fossilfuels #uspol #debate #climatesilence

https://hillheat.news/p/keep-cool

We have to keep our cool

Climate homicide, disorderly conduct, and certified gaslighting

Hill Heat
Brad JohnsonMar 1, 2024
The inset NYT story on climate change fueling the catastrophic Texas wildfires somehow manages to not mention that it's Texan fossil fuels causing climate change.
#climatesilence #nytimes #wildfires #txwx
Kent PitmanAug 19, 2023

Maui wants answers.
Such vast death. Why no alarms?
They would have acted.
We boiling frogs feel for Them,
Shush, Climate! We want to hear.

#tanka (5-7-5-7-7 extended #haiku / #senryu) #poem
#climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateSilence #Maui #Lahaina #ClimateMessaging

Doug BostromJul 16, 2023

"KCCI assigned a security detail to Gloninger but also, he said, “told me to dial down the climate stuff a bit”."

If you follow the money it's arguable that this is the end result of a calculated campaign of terrorism conducted by the fossil fuel industry in the interest of prolonging monetization. There's an anger factory operated by FF interests.

Every day of #ClimateSilence is money banked.

#HydrocarbonTerroristCampaign

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/chris-gloninger-tv-weather-man-climate-crisis

‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis

Chris Gloninger wove the reality of global heating into his forecasts in the conservative heartland of Iowa. Not everyone was receptive

The Guardian
Brad JohnsonApr 4, 2023
time for me to trot out what I wrote in ... 2010
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/if-doctors-were-climate-scientists-wed-be-dead-1c33fbab8ae5/
#climatescience #climate #tornadoes #climatesilence #wx
If Doctors Were Climate Scientists, We’d Be Dead

Show threadBrad JohnsonApr 4, 2023

Here's an example of bad climate reporting by NYT's Soumya Karlamangla - repeatedly frames the consequences of humans burning fossil fuels on our climate (in this case, a season of extreme precipitation refilling California's Tulare Lake) as the fault of "nature".

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/tulare-lake-california-storms.html
#climatesilence #climate #tularelake #cawx #california

Tulare Lake Returned in the Central Valley After California Storms

A barrage of storms has resurrected what was once the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River, setting the stage for a disaster this spring.

The New York Times