Cable News Begins Mush-Mouthed, Halting Acknowledgement Of Climate-Hurricane Links

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Since then, cable news networks have awakened a bit from their climate nap. On Wednesday, CNN's Jake Tapper at least tried to question White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on the climate-hurricanes link. Mulvaney rejected any such discussion, pleading the climate equivalent of Taking the Fifth Amendment on the topic.

This is at least a feeble improvement from a few days earlier, when CNN's Chris Cuomo abruptly shut down a head of state, Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda, who tried to raise the role of climate change in the utter demolition of human structures on the island of Barbuda.

"There's a broader discussion to be had, that is true," said Cuomo, before kicking the discussion back to a commercial break and more wall-to-wall coverage of wreckage shots.

As a rule as firm as unwritten rules get, cable news anchors don't shut down heads of state when they raise what they feel is an important point.

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http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2017/sept/UPDATE-TV-News-plays-catch-up-on-the-climate

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1. It's called a stupiphany

When that which is obvious to the world at large, suddenly becomes obvious to you as well...

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2. I was watching coverage of Irma just before it was to hit the Keys.

The host that hour was filling in time an ask the on set Weather guy about Climate change as the unspoken major issue. The weather guy would not even discuss the topic.

You would have though that the Host had lobed a dog turd on the floor.

This was on MSNBC. I was streaming because I no longer take cable, and I did not recognize or remember the hosts name.