Why won’t US TV news say ‘climate change’?

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/02/us-media-hurricane-ida-climate-change

Mark Hertsgaard

It’s media malpractice not to mention that burning fossil fuels drives extreme weather events like Hurricane Ida

Jerilyn Collins returns to her destroyed home to retrieve medicine for herself and her father in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, Louisiana.
Jerilyn Collins returns to her destroyed home to retrieve medicine for herself and her father in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, Louisiana.Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

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About this contentThu 2 Sep 2021 06.00 EDT

The climate emergency is exploding in various parts of the world this week, but climate silence inexcusably continues to rein in much of the United States media.

Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people in Louisiana without running water, electricity or air conditioning amid a heat index topping 100F. The Caldor firedestroyed hundreds of housesand forced mass evacuations around Lake Tahoe in California. Abroad, vast swaths of Siberia were ablaze while drought-parched Madagascar suffered what a United Nations official called the first famine caused entirely by climate change.

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