Should ‘Climate Change’ be ‘Climate Crisis?’
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The biggest story of modern times is bad for audience ratings. To save money, news outlets are hiding the truth of environmental disaster. A new playbook, “Covering Climate Change” says dire scientific warnings are not “alarmism,” but needed to inspire public demands for action.
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| 0:00.0 | Carolinas are being swamped by these heavy rains and high winds from Hurricane Florence. |
| 0:09.7 | The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate. |
| 0:14.5 | I don't think it's a hoax. I think there's probably a difference, but I don't know that it's man-made. |
| 0:19.8 | Experts say that we have until 2030 to avoid catastrophe. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the point's climate change update. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Warren Alney. |
| 0:27.6 | Teenagers around the world are mobilizing to demand action on climate change. |
| 0:31.6 | One leader is the Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg, who's called for repeated school strikes |
| 0:36.6 | in 110 countries. |
| 0:39.3 | She's urging people her age to show up outside houses of Parliament and other places |
| 0:43.3 | where national and international policies are made, and after all, science has demonstrated |
| 0:49.3 | it's hers and their future that faces catastrophe. |
| 0:53.3 | Many Americans grew up watching Bill Nye, the science guy. |
| 0:57.7 | He says now that it's about time for them to pay more attention. |
| 1:02.5 | On HBO's last week tonight with John Oliver, |
| 1:05.5 | he used language that many listeners might think is not fit for children, |
| 1:10.1 | but that's not who he's talking to. |
| 1:12.8 | By the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, |
| 1:15.2 | the average temperature on Earth |
| 1:16.7 | could go up another four to eight degrees. |
| 1:19.3 | What I'm saying is the planet's on fucking fire. |
| 1:23.3 | There are a lot of things we could do to put it out. |
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