Will Climate Break Through in Big Media's Elections Coverage?: Common Dreams (excerpt)

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"With fewer than 100 days remaining before Election Day, journalists at some of America's leading news organizations are working with their own newsrooms and others to make sure voters and the public at large understand what's at stake.

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Mark Hertsgaard

Looming climate catastrophe

On November 4, the United States will officially leave the Parisclimate accord. The accord, agreed upon five years ago by virtually every country on earth, commits governments to keeping global temperature rise "well below" 2 degrees Celsius—a sensible ambition considering the record heat waves, hurricanes, and other forms of climate chaos now erupting around the world after "only" 1 degree of warming. Whether the US departure from the accord is sustained (in the event that Republican president Donald Trump is re-elected) or reversed (if Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins) is one of many reasons why the 2020 US election is, as much as anything, a climate-change election.With fewer than 100 days remaining before Election Day,

Looming climate catastrophe

journalists at some of America's leading news organizations are working with their own newsrooms and others to make sure voters and the public at large understand what's at stake.

"It's not our responsibility to tell people who to vote for, but it is important to lay out the consequences of what those decisions are, and that we can do very, very clearly," Al Ortiz of CBS News said at a July 30 "Talking Shop" webinar of Covering Climate Now.  "

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Saturday, August 08, 2020

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Covering Climate Now

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