Poll: Would you watch a cable news network devoted only to Climate Change?

[Mike 03]

In this scenario, our network is a news-style network that treats climate change stories of all kinds as important news and covers them the way the well-known news networks cover the stories they cover, devoting a little bit of time to each story, or more if a story is especially important. Think CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC.

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	I would probably watch Climate TV for several hours a day.
	0 (0%)
	I would probably watch Climate TV a little bit every day.
	6 (35%)
	I would probably watch Climate TV every once in a while.
	4 (24%)
	I would probably avoid Climate TV.
	5 (29%)
	I don't know whether I would watch Climate TV or not.
	1 (6%)
	Other (Please Explain)
	1 (6%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[sandensea]

1. I'd watch more often if they remembered to show lots of cute fauna

Vaquitas and orangutangs, especially.

Very adorable - and very endangered,

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Jesus. There is literally no place we can go without being reminded that we are seen as objects,

valued and judged by our bodies, our appearance.

Nowhere.

[sandensea]

6. Point well taken.

I shall edit the quip accordingly

[Kaleva]

3. I spend sometime most every day preparing to adapt to climate change

Anywhere from a few minutes a day to several hours.

I and my wife prefer to binge watch series on Netflix, Hulu and Prime and don't watch one particular channel.

[world wide wally]

4. Isn't that called The Weather Channel?

[Caliman73]

5. I voted not sure.

I might watch if they did segments on how to prepare for the worst of the consequences, but it would likely get depressing very quickly. I am sure there might be some audience for that, but I am not sure if an entire network devoted only to that topic would be feasible. I could imagine it getting very "reality show" like quickly.

[doc03]

7. It would be an improvement of the garbage they put on the History channel today, Pickers,

Mountain Men, Ancient Aliens, how about some real damn history!

[elocs]

8. I don't have cable.

If I did, I might watch a little bit.
But climate change is here and will only get worse. I don't see the nations of the world working together enough to even slow it down but sadly little is being done to deal with the negative consequences of global climate change.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. I don't watch TV news, so no.

[Sherman A1]

10. A cable channel about such a topic certainly would get my attention

A cable "news' channel would absolutely not do so as I avoid anything cable noise which is nothing more than talking heads filling airtime between ads for drugs we never knew we needed.

[Merlot]

11. If it included segments on innovation in energy, yes.

If it was just about how bad climate change is, probably not.

[Mike 03]

12. Thanks, I truly appreciate your responses.

I think it would be difficult to watch too much of Climate TV. I'd probably start out very excited about the idea of a channel devoted to this topic, and hope that it would inform people who are curious, or starting to worry about it, but feel like they can't talk about it in their circle of friends. They might watch this and learn something. But I agree with the posters who said it could rapidly get upsetting. Those of us who read a lot about it know the basics of what is happening now, and what is likely going to happen.

Someone on DU (I think, or maybe I heard this from my mother) posted something interesting Chris Hayes said: essentially, as vitally important as climate change was, it was "ratings death." Some people are fearless about reading everything they can get their hands on; for others of us, we can digest a bit each day before it gets a little overwhelming. But we may change and adapt as necessary. It might become necessary to think about this most of the time.

Thanks again!