During coverage of the recent catastrophic flooding across the Northeast, major TV news networks mostly largely ignored clear climate signals linking the historic extreme weather event to global warming. Over a three-day period from July 9-12, a Media Matters analysis found: National TV news broadcasters ABC, CBS, and NBC and major cable news networks CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News covered the Northeast flood event for more than 5 hours and 41 minutes across 171 segments. Only 10% of the 171 segments and weathercasts about the Northeast flood event across national TV news mentioned the role climate change played in the flooding. Major cable news networks – CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC – aired 4 hours and 27 minutes of coverage across 121 segments or weathercasts about the Northeast flooding, and 16 segments mentioned climate change. MSNBC mentioned the connection between the extreme flooding and climate change 10 times, and CNN mentioned it 6. (Fox’s coverage mentioned cl