This is the most we've ever talked about climate change on American TV for years, just ever.

We had about six minutes and 23 seconds in 2018.

We just got seven hours in a row.

How a climate marathon on CNN advances the conversation about actual solutions.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Ladstone.

And why storm-wearied news consumers have followed Dorian with fear and frustration.

We deal in probabilistic forecasting, but people are used to deterministic forecast.

They want to know, is it coming or not?

And the glaring flaws in reporting on gun violence in America.

We continue to have the same conversation over and over,

trying to prevent 1% of people from dying

and not caring about the other 99%.

Some new ideas on an old argument coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

As Hurricane Dorian slams the United States after ravaging the Bahamas, the effects of climate chaos are once again devastating millions of lives.

Over the past few months, the mounting impact of the climate crisis has activists clamoring for the Democratic Party to hold a presidential

debate on the existential threat facing our planet.

We want to see a substantive debate on these issues, not just high-level talking points and

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