Climate: Media speculates on Maui Fires
What was the cause of the devastating Maui fires? At this point, no one knows. But media has no trouble speculating!
Social: I logged into Twitter after being off since April *
The ratio of idiocy to intelligent thought on Twitter seems awfully high, too high to spend time there.
Media, climate: 100% of news stories must have a ClimateCrisis angle!
The journalism style guide mandates 100% of stories be tied to the ClimateCrisis. So here we are – Barbie’s fictional home must be redesigned to survive the ClimateCrisis. Seriously!
Media: Story contradicts itself in the first 3 bullet points!
Reporter self destructs in just 3 sentences, writing contradictory statements. The FAA temporarily suspended flights at Phoenix due to a telecommunications problem at Albuquerque Center located in New Mexico, having nothing to do with heat in Phoenix. But the reporter, incredibly, tries to link the temporary ground stop to temperatures in Phoenix. Oh my.
Media and the panic over malaria
Several cases of malaria have been identified in the U.S. From the media reporting, you might think this is a crisis and this has never happened before. Indeed, the new cases are because of climate change. Except this is a super exaggeration: the first case of malaria in what would become the U.S. was reported in 1492. The CDC was founded in 1946 for the purpose of eliminating malaria from the U.S., particularly the Southern states – this is why it’s HQ is in Atlanta, GA.