On the last Sunday of 2018 , Meet the Press , NBC ’s hour - long Sunday break of the day news show , did something unprecedented . It devoted an total hour to hash out mood alteration and feature actual policymakers and investigator with nary a denier in survey . Ironically , the episode also unwittingly shined a spotlight on how terrible video intelligence is at traverse clime modification in general , and showed that it still has a way to go .
The reasons for this sad land of affair are manifold , array from Republicans and fossil fuel interest group poisoning the well of mood preaching to political reporter ’ desire for mythical objectivity .
All that is what made Sunday ’s Meet the Press so jarring . In addition to referring to clime variety as a crisis , Chuck Todd also order “ [ w]e’re not go bad to give time to climate denier . ” NBC declined to comment on if this was a fresh standing rule or a one off for this episode , but it ’s rare to see such a absolved callout on telly news regardless . True to form , Todd ’s guests included Michael Bloomberg , Governor Jerry Brown , NASA scientist Kate Marvel , outgoing Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo , former Federal Emergency Management Agency head Craig Fugate , and former Undersecretary of Defense Policy Michèle Flournoy .
Their discussion followed grounds that will be mostly familiar if you ’re a veritable Earther lector . Theplanet is getting hot , we haveincreasingly throttle timeto destination it , climate change - fuel disasters are already taking a Heteromeles arbutifolia peopleandthe economy , the presidentdoesn’t have any cluewhat he ’s talk about and his actions areendangering this and next generations . My Canadian married woman regularly shows me clips from the CBC about clime change in an effort to douse on American news show . Watching Meet the Press , it feel like those CBC clips minus the delightful Canadian accents .
Still , in some ways , the Meet the Press episode was a bit of a bummer .
For one , it unintentionally made it clear how rare and generally bad goggle box insurance coverage of mood change is . The fact that a major Sunday show hash out clime change seriously is tidings shows just how scummy the bar is . In 2018 , this should be a hebdomadal natural event .
This deficiency of coverage is made more jarring by the fact there ’s strong interest in the matter . group at Yale and George Mason universities do mood polling , andthey foundthat fewer than half of Americans polled hear about clime alteration at least once a calendar month in the media despite the fact that two - thirds of respondents reporting that they were concerned in the topic .
The show ’s guests also left a moment to be desire , reflecting that the Beltway medium is still beholden to the condition quo . It certain would ’ve been nice to hear from an incoming member of Congress like Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez , Ilhan Omar , or Ayanna Pressley , a seated representative like Ro Khanna , or potential presidential prospect Cory Booker , all of whom are champions of the Green New Deal , a set of policy destination in line with the better usable scientific discipline . The only mention of the batch occur in the orifice segment . Instead of expanding on what could be the future of U.S. climate policy , Todd had on Curbelo who lose his election and whose bipartizan climate caucuswas fundamentally wiped out in the midterm exam election , and technocratically - disposed potential presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg .
Unfortunately climate change is n’t going away , so Todd and his fellow political reporters will have ample opportunities for continued class correction in 2019 .
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