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Here at @LearnTechUK about to discover how L&D can actively contribute to #sustainability and the green agenda. I know nothing about it - so I can’t wait for speakers Brittany Sage Brown @Brittany_Sage_B & Tess Robinson @tessrobinsonLAS to blow my mind. Bring it! #LT23UK #T5S1
Did you know that Louisiana in the US is the first place in the world to have climate refugees due to flooding. They may be the first but @tessrobinsonLAS tells us they won’t be the last. #LT23UK #T5S1 
We just got asked how people in the room feel about #climatechange. Here are some of the answers from Menti. #LT23UK #T5S1
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.🤔🤔🤔
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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.🤔🤔🤔
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.@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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Bravo, Mr. Holt! #EndClimateSilence
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.@chrislhayes covered the Dutch court case on @MSNBC @allinwithchris. He understood that this was a "landmark ruling."
Thank you for your excellent reporting, Mr. Hayes! #EndClimateSilence
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Thank you for your excellent reporting, Mr. Hayes! #EndClimateSilence
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September heatwave in California: Sunday temperatures expected to hit 43°C (110F) in much of the state, 49°C (121F) in Palm Springs, and 51°C (124F) in Furnace Creek, Death Valley. Wildfire risk would seem high once more.
New rapidly growing wildfire in California: 125,000 acres = 500 km².
Narrow escape
Finally got a chance to listen to @emorwee's Heated podcast with @AliVelshi.
Velshi was awesome—smart, honorable, and remarkably forthright—freely admitting that "our [mainstream] media is not built actually to acknowledge" the #ClimateEmergency.
Some takeaways in a thread...
Velshi was awesome—smart, honorable, and remarkably forthright—freely admitting that "our [mainstream] media is not built actually to acknowledge" the #ClimateEmergency.
Some takeaways in a thread...
Velshi sees the #ClimateSilence of TV news, rightly, as a symptom of the systemic power of the fossil-fuel industry, which makes its message simply what passes for news & information.
"You may not know you're getting [its message] all the time, but you're getting it."
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"You may not know you're getting [its message] all the time, but you're getting it."
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Compounding that, the punchy, visual, crisis-driven aesthetic of broadcast news has also seemed to constrain its capacity to cover climate.
"We have [ways] of doing things, and they don't lend themselves to large conceptual discussion."
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"We have [ways] of doing things, and they don't lend themselves to large conceptual discussion."
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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!
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We also ask reporters and producers not to suppress their efforts!
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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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The reporter was ordered to take their mention of climate change out.
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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/…
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@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/…
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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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@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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Hassan wasn't the only @nytimes reporter who failed to mention climate change.
@mihirzaveri wrote an entire piece veritably humming with #climatesilence.
nytimes.com/2019/03/16/us/…
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@mihirzaveri wrote an entire piece veritably humming with #climatesilence.
nytimes.com/2019/03/16/us/…
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Can we talk about the global "we"?
"We" is a big word in climate discourse. Just today I've seen a number of responses to #SR15 that use it, as in "we're fucking this up."
I'm here to say that this "we" is a fictional construct: ideological, obfuscatory, and dangerous.
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"We" is a big word in climate discourse. Just today I've seen a number of responses to #SR15 that use it, as in "we're fucking this up."
I'm here to say that this "we" is a fictional construct: ideological, obfuscatory, and dangerous.
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Who is this "we"? Does it include the nearly one billion people who live on less than 2 dollars a day?
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Does it include the +/- 5.5 billion people who live on between 2-10 dollars a day?
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1. I happened to listen to @NPR for a few hours this morning, and I heard three stories that are very much connected to #climatechange without anyone on the radio mentioning climate change even once.
It was surreal and disturbing.
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It was surreal and disturbing.
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2. The first story was about the current drought in Oregon. It focused on a rancher who is currently paying to have 18,000 gallons of water a day trucked in to water his livestock. (Yes, you read that right.)
3. The story discussed how much this water and its transport was costing the rancher; how long this drought has affected ranching in the West; and what the ranchers might do if the weather doesn't eventually return to normal (as if it would one day return to normal).
