Katy Tur Apparently Gets It: Conversation With Michael Mann - 7 Whole Minutes On MSNBC

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Above, Katy Tur makes a surprising expression of shock. (at about 1:55)

It seems she suddenly recognized the long-skewed priorities of the mainstream media, herself included, in treating climate change as one issue among many, – a priority only for, in Candy Crowley’s memorable formulation, “the climate people”.

YUBA CITY, Calif. — The main exhibit hall at the Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds here has become the home of last resort for 68 people who fled the fires that swept through a broad swath of forest and hill towns nearby. And some days, an ambulance shows up. A team of paramedics, wearing protective masks and disposable yellow plastic aprons, wheeled a sick man out of the exhibit hall Monday on a stretcher, another victim of the bitter repercussions of mass displacement that the Camp Fire has created. The outbreak of vomiting and diarrhea has carried on for days.

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New York Times:

Global warming is posing such wide-ranging risks to humanity, involving so many types of phenomena, that by the end of this century some parts of the world could face as many as six climate-related crises at the same time, researchers say. This chilling prospect is described in a paper published Monday in Nature Climate Change, a respected academic journal, that shows the effects of climate change across a broad spectrum of problems, including heat waves, wildfires, sea level rise, hurricanes, flooding, drought and shortages of clean water.

Such problems are already coming in combination, said the lead author, Camilo Mora of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He noted that Florida had recently experienced extreme drought, record high temperatures and wildfires — and also Hurricane Michael, the powerful Category 4 storm that slammed into the Panhandle last month. Similarly, California is suffering through the worst wildfires the state has ever seen, as well as drought, extreme heat waves and degraded air quality that threatens the health of residents.

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https://climatecrocks.com/2018/11/20/how-pointless-is-my-life-journalist-has-rare-moment-of-self-awareness-on-climate/#more-54482

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1. Trump fiddles while the US "Burns" (floods, hurricanes, flooding, disappearance of beaches, etc)

Is it too much to hope that Mar-a-lago will vanish with the beach? Don't know the actual geography, but one can hope.

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2. Katy is the best

She looked very concerned about this.

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3. She's been makiing forceful comments on climate change lately.

Apparently, someone in the media finally gets it.

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4. K&R for Katy Tur

She had a long interview with Bill McKibben yesterday. It was amazing to see.