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Instead of informing viewers about how the recent heat and wildfire events in Asia, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest are a stark reminder of the profound changes being driven by anthropogenic global warming, national TV news shows’ lack of coverage of these extreme weather events demonstrated how far broadcast and cable news still needs to go to provide consistent and substantive coverage of climate change. As the United States moves into extreme weather season, which includes the beginning of the 2023 hurricane season on June 1, it is imperative that major news networks expand and deepen their extreme weather coverage. This is especially important considering the role a potential El Niño could play in fueling storm formation and driving global temperatures to record levels, and how those developments could be weaponized by professional climate skeptics. ....
Much of 2022’s extreme weather coverage from national TV news outlets failed to connect the consequences of climate-driven events such as wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves, and megadroughts to their primary cause: global warming induced primarily by the burning of fossil fuels. Corporate broadcast and cable TV news reporting on extreme weather events in 2022 too often neglected to connect these disasters to the climate crisis, allowed systemic failures that are exposed by extreme climate events to go unchallenged, and failed to demand accountability for those exacerbating climate change, as well as its impacts and injustices. A roundup of this year’s extreme weather coverage found that national TV news shows mentioned climate change in only 17% of segments about mid-June’s multiple concurrent extreme weather events, while broadcast and cable coverage of Yosemite National Park’s Washburn Fire from July 9-11 mentioned climate change in just 37% of segments. Similarly, only 32% of ....