We Are in a Climate Emergency, America': Anchorage Hits 90 Degrees for First Time

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

With Alaska in the midst of an unprecedented heat wave that experts say is driven by the climate crisis, Anchorage—the state's largest city—reached an all-time high temperature of 90 degrees on Thursday.
"At 5 pm [Thursday] afternoon, Anchorage International Airport officially hit 90 degrees for the first time on record," the Anchorage National Weather Service announced in a tweet early Friday.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/05/we-are-climate-emergency-america-anchorage-hits-90-degrees-first-time-recorded?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email


And as this happens, the US corporate media devotes less coverage to climate change, and Trump promotes coal.

[Mike Nelson]

1. Haven't seen it on news...

… MSNBC looks like all reruns... FOX won't play it up... have CNN on and they are all Trump & Biden.

[guillaumeb]

7. The corporate media has decided that it is not a story.

That leaves more time to cover Trump's tweets.

[theophilus]

15. Chris Hayes had a really good segment a few days ago. It should be on every day

and in clever ways. We are going down as a species....and not in a good way.

[guillaumeb]

17. And, like Nero, we are playing the violin as the earth burns.

Our children will suffer.

[theophilus]

20. WE will suffer. n/t

[MLAA]

31. And I think it will happen far sooner than most expect.

[tazkcmo]

2. But it's Clean Coal!

They wash it and everything!
















sarcasm

[guillaumeb]

8. Very true.

And they white wash the destruction that coal causes.

[tazkcmo]

21. Well played.

Unfortunately, you are correct.

[Sienna86]

3. What will it take for us to take action?

I do a lot, but we need someone who can inspire us as a nation to do everything we can in this crisis.

[triron]

5. Hillary had some ambitious plans to increase dependence on renewable energy,

but; alas, her emails and the Russians, etc.

[Buckeyeblue]

6. Jimmy Carter had a plan 40+ years ago...but then Iran and Ronnie.

[guillaumeb]

11. Yes, she did.

But, as you said, the emails.

And the fact that former energy lobbyists are running the country is ignored.

[guillaumeb]

9. It will take political will.

And politicians who are aware of the problem, and will do something.

[triron]

4. News media? Where are you?

[guillaumeb]

10. Covering the endless campaign.

And ignoring a true existential threat.

[demosincebirth]

12. Wow!

[guillaumeb]

13. In Chicago, the local weatherperson

simply reported the record breaking heat as something interesting, with no context or explanation.

[demosincebirth]

14. Must be a denier

[guillaumeb]

16. No, he has talked about climate change in the past,

but not in the last year.

As if ignoring it will make it go away?

[PSPS]

26. Was the station recently acquired by Sinclair? (Mostly ABC affilaites.)

[guillaumeb]

32. No, the FCC would not allow the sale.

Good question though.

[theophilus]

18. And the rain forest gets chopped down. Stupid, stupid humans. n/t

[guillaumeb]

19. To make way for cows

that McDonalds will turn into hamburgers.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

24. To plant more soybeans to sell to China...

... eom.

[spike jones]

22. If A Tree Falls in the forest does anybody hear -Bruce Cockburn 1989

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[IthinkThereforeIAM]

23. Denver had hail again today...

Last edited Sat Jul 6, 2019, 04:12 PM - Edit history (1)

... the fourth day this week that they had hail. The flowers I planted for her(my aunt) the past month are decimated.

[guillaumeb]

33. We had hail in early June.

It caused a lot of damage. But all of these unusual weather events are reported as simply unusual instances of weather, with no mention of climate change.

[triron]

25. The media is asleep.

[sheshe2]

27. Voting matters.

[True Dough]

28. Did anyone in this thread do a Google search?

Here's what I found:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/us/alaska-record-heat-trnd-wxc/index.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/anchorage-alaska-hits-90-degrees-record-shattering-heatwave-n1026876

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/weather/2019/07/05/with-a-high-of-89-anchorage-sets-an-all-time-high-temperature-record/

https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Anchorage-breaks-all-time-record-high-512239762.html

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/anchorage-hottest-day_n_5d1eefa4e4b04c4814117eb1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/07/05/record-crushing-heat-torches-alaska-anchorage-hits-all-time-high/?utm_term=.efdabc3e342d

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/05/738905306/it-was-a-balmy-90-degrees-yesterday-in-anchorage-for-the-first-time-on-record

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-hit-with-record-high-temperatures-and-wildfires-today-2019-07-05/

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/451773-anchorage-sets-record-with-first-90-degree-day


Seems to be a false narrative here in regards to the media ignoring the story.

[triron]

29. OK. But I haven't heard any pundit talking about it. How many viewers go the trouble you did?

[roamer65]

30. In 10 years, they will see 100 deg F.

Maybe sooner.