Global Warming
Ready for Greta-Vision? BBC Producing Thunberg Documentary Series
Culture
February 12th, 2020 3:25 PM
“Dora the Extorter?” “Exploited Development?” “How I Nagged Your Mother?” Whatever the eventual title, be afraid. Greta Thunberg is headed for TV. During the BBC Showcase on Feb. 10, the network announced production of a docu-series on the life and and propaganda of the Swedish Scold.
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Harrison Ford Blasts ‘Son Of A Bitch’ Trump & Climate Deniers
Culture
February 12th, 2020 1:15 PM
Seems like it’s time for Han Solo to get back into his carbonite bath for a cool-down. He’s old and crotchety these days, and gets kind of hot under the collar when he doesn’t get his way.
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Voter Mocks CBS Host Over Climate Change: ‘You Gotta Be Kidding Me'
February 11th, 2020 4:17 PM
In a report for Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Tony Dokoupil went ice fishing with two New Hampshire voters, one Republican, one Democrat. Amid discussing the state’s upcoming primary, Dokoupil couldn’t resist using the mild weather to bring up climate change. He was promptly mocked by the GOP voter.
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Left-Leaning Documentaries Featured Prominently at the Oscars
Culture
February 9th, 2020 10:09 PM
Hollywood’s favorite 17-year-old climate change expert Greta Thunberg kicked off the documentary mash-up during the Oscars. She thanked David Attenborough for getting her interested in the environment through his documentaries. Attenbourgh’s latest documentary A Life on Our Planet, about how, according to the trailer “humans have overrun the world.”
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Disney+ Series Warns of 'Cataclysmic Demise of This Planet'
Culture
January 31st, 2020 9:01 PM
Disney’s new streaming service “Disney+” is still rolling out new original programming, and one of the newest ones for this year is Diary of a Future President. The series is a comedy following 12-year-old Elena Cañero-Reed (Tess Romero) as she navigates middle school and works to someday be president of the United States. As seen from the last attempt at a sitcom aimed at children, it was only a…
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'Blackish' Compares Greta Thunberg to Alexander the Great
Culture
January 28th, 2020 10:32 PM
Blackish is known for being a politically and racially charged show, and this week's episode was no different. In Tuesday's episode, "Adventure to Ventura," the show compares Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate change activist/fanatic, to Alexander the Great, one of the world's, well, greatest and most successful military commanders in history and the teenage inventor of Braille.
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PBS Science Reporter Blames Global Warming for Australian Wildfires
January 20th, 2020 7:37 PM
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, science correspondent Miles O'Brien blamed manmade global warming for the severity of the recent Australian wildfires, and talked up the possibility that Prime Minister Scott Morrison as well as the Rupert Murdoch-dominated media may be changing their climate "denier" views.
The Nation: Aussie Fires Demonstrate Sports at Risk of Destruction
Culture
January 20th, 2020 10:00 AM
The smoke and heat plaguing the ongoing Australian Open tennis tournament and threatening the health of contestants aren't just an unfortunate set of circumstances. Oh no, it's a matter of the sports world sticking its head in the stand and ignoring the world's ongoing climate catastrophe, writes The Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin.
Telemundo ahora culpa al suicidio y la violencia al cambio climático
Latino
January 17th, 2020 5:39 PM
Cuando Telemundo informa sobre el cambio climático, las declaraciones pueden llegar a ser ridículas e incluso aterradoras. Así que cuando el programa matutino de Telemundo "Un Nuevo Dia" dedicó un segmento a medias sobre cómo el cambio climático afectaba nuestra salud mental, no le sorprendió a nadie que el objetivo final era "hacer cambios radicales en la forma en que hoy nos comportamos con el…
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PBS Guest Argues Media Should Ignore Climate Skeptic 'Lies'
January 16th, 2020 5:08 PM
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co., PBS's Michel Martin interviewed Lee McIntyre -- author of the book Post-Truth -- with the two discussing perceptions that lying is more accepted from political figures than in the past because of the election of Donald Trump as President. Without any pushback from Martin, McIntyre argued in favor of journalists censoring the views of those they disagree with, …
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Ok, Boomer: NBC Blames Climate Change for Generational Divide
January 16th, 2020 3:27 PM
On Thursday, NBC’s Today show devoted a full segment to examining the popular “Ok, Boomer” meme on social media by talking to a group of teenagers and senior citizens about the generation gap. Amid other reasons for the divide, correspondents Savannah Sellers and Harry Smith touted climate change as a major cause of generational tension.
Telemundo Blames Suicide and Violence on Climate Change
Latino
January 16th, 2020 2:25 PM
When Telemundo reports on Climate Change, the statements range from laughable to terrifying. So when Telemundo's morning show “Un Nuevo Dia” made an incomplete segment on how Climate Change affects our mental health, it should not come as a surprise that the ultimate goal was to “Create radical changes on how we behave towards the planet.”
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CNN Touts Climate Alarmists Blaming Skeptics for Wildfires
January 14th, 2020 3:10 PM
On Friday's The Lead on CNN, host Jake Tapper ran a report by correspondent Will Ripley which promoted the alarmist view that global warming is to blame for the unusually bad wildfire season in Australia, and that skeptics deserve scorn for undermining the alarmists who are trying to cut carbon dioxide levels. More conservative-minded scientists who argue that the intensity of the wildfires is…
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BBC's 'Doctor Who' Depicts Earth Destroyed by 'Global Warming'
Culture
January 13th, 2020 9:48 PM
Over the weekend, the BBC's long-running science fiction television series, Doctor Who, ventured into promoting climate alarmism as the show depicted an uninhabitable futuristic Earth that has been destroyed by global warming because the human race refused to heed warnings that were raised by "every scientist alive."