Environmentalism: This week, the southwest was hit with an earth-scorching heat wave, with temperatures well above 100 in some areas.
Normally that would cause every news organization to trot out "global warming is killing us" stories. But not this time.Maybe they've caught on to the fact that the public has tuned out.
It wasn't long ago when the mainstream press took every opportunity, no matter how weak the connection, to blame bad things on global warming.
So far, at least, we haven't found one major story using the heat wave gripping the southwest to sound the alarm about global warming.
This lack of alarmism has not gone unnoticed.
Writing at the New Republic this week, Emily Atkin complained that despite record-breaking heat and a wildfire season that, she says, is already worse than usual, "there's no climate connection to be found in much news coverage, even in historically climate-conscious outlets like NPR and The New York Times."...
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