Guys, we reaaaaaaaally sold Tomorrowland short.
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If you google “NBC climate reporter,” the first person to come up is Chase Cain.
For nearly eight years, the veteran meteorologist covered the most existential threat to humanity for one of the country’s biggest broadcast networks, traveling to Antarctica, reporting from inside the Palisades fire, and earning lots of big awards along the way.
But Cain isn’t an NBC climate reporter anymore, he tells HEATED in an exclusive interview. Last week, the veteran journalist resigned, citing burnout from near-constant internal fighting to get important climate stories on air—stories that he says were routinely deprioritized, buried late in newscasts, or cut entirely.
“It just really got to that point where I was just kind of exhausted by the sales, by the constant trying to explain and remind, like, hey, this is important. Please run this story,” Cain told HEATED. “It just wore on me after a while.”
In our conversation, Cain talks about the subtle ways climate coverage is suppressed at NBC—not through explicit directives, but through a thousand small cuts over time. HEATED podcast producer Tracy Wholf, a veteran of both CBS and ABC, shares similar experiences. ”The networks, I think, are bending the knee to the current political atmosphere,” she says.
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#Old #Growth #Forests - and other #vital #ecosystems - must be #protected from the #false #promises of the #ForestBiomass #industry.
Keeping an eye on the forest biomass export industry - Stand.earth
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Protect these California ecosystems from destruction by oil and gas!
Public Lands Need Protection, Not More Oil and Gas Pollution
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Sign your name to call for a global fossil fuels nonproliferation treaty!
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US forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once
Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill.
This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East. On Wednesday, Washington, D.C., residents walked around in shorts in record-breaking 86 degrees Fahrenheit (about 30 C). On Thursday, it snowed.
“All of the country, even if you’re not necessarily seeing extremes, are going to see generally changing from cold to warm, or warm to cold to warm,” said meteorologist Marc Chenard of the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.
Former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist Ryan Maue said he expects extreme weather in all 50 states.
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The title is definitely click-baity–this does talk about boomers’ buying preference for a bit, but like…after extensively covering how auto makers aggressively lobbied for loopholes and advertised suvs as safe, and also makes it pretty clear that successive generations’ buying preference is no better–but pretty interesting video for the info on the auto makers, yeah.
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How do you keep on living and wanting to live when everything around you feels as if it is pointing to an accelerating end of the world scenario? Like literally all of the evidence on climate change and societal collapse are pointing in one direction…
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The new Climate Change Zodiac Sign Seasons
Capricorn: Winter
Aquarius: Winter
Pisces: Spring build up
Aries: Spring
Taurus: Spring Half Summer
Gemini: Peak Summer
Cancer: Peak Summer
Leo: Peak Summer
Virgo: Peak Summer
Libra: Late Summer
Scorpio: Ending of Summer start of Autumn
Sagittarius: Winter
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California is doing all this. No Central valley cold humid foggy wetlands, no pulling storms from the Pacific ocean. California wetlands can lower Californias 100°f climate and drop it to 80°f, cause wind, and attract cold pacific storms to come in and drench the dry West and refill in the Atlantic. California can make winters longer, wetter and colder. California Central Valley Conservative Tradional farmers are preventing wetland restorations. They are not pushing to grow elsewhere like coastal and Sierra hills.
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History really does repeat itself…
This day last year, we had a dangerous snowstorm and now the same thing is happening today. Uncanny, eh?
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On 1 June 2017, then-US President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the agreement.[40] Since the agreement entered into force in the United States on 4 November 2016, the earliest possible date it could notify its intention to withdraw was 4 November 2019.[41][42] If it had chosen to withdraw by way of withdrawing from the UNFCCC notice could be given immediately, since the UNFCCC entered into force for the US in 1994. In both cases, withdrawal would be effective one year later. According to a memo obtained by HuffPost believed to be written by US State Department legal office, any “attempts to withdraw from the Paris Agreement outside of the above-described withdrawal provisions would be inconsistent with international law and would not be accepted internationally.”[43][44] On August 4, 2017, the Trump administration delivered an official notice to the United Nations that the US intended to withdraw from the Paris Agreement as soon as it was legally eligible to do so.[45] On 4 November 2019, the United States notified the depositary of its withdrawal from the agreement, which became effective one year later.[37]
In one of his first executive actions, President Joe Biden signed an order for the United States to rejoin the agreement.[46][47] Joe Biden was greeted by French President Emmanuel Macron with a “Welcome back to the Paris Agreement!”.[48] On January 20, 2025, shortly after his second inauguration, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Putting America First In International Environmental Agreements”, to withdraw the United States from the agreement for a second time.[49]
Set him on fire