Because not many people know about it
By Paul Homewood
I have been following Covering Climate Now for some time now.
They were created to influence journalism around the world, to push an alarmist agenda, basically, to lie:
Covering Climate Now supports, mobilizes, and trains journalists and newsrooms to produce compelling climate coverage that engages audiences.
Founded in 2019 by the Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation magazine in association with the Guardian and WNYC, CCNow calls on journalists everywhere to transform the way our profession covers the clear stories of today. Unless news outlets around the world step up and expand their climate coverage, there will not be the public and political awareness needed to address the crisis.
with hundreds of partner news from over 60 countries reaching a billion people, CCNow helps journalists produce more informative coverage and attract attention from the climate crisis and potential solutions.
As the climate crisis accelerates and the journalism landscape rapidly evolves, we invite all journalists and newsrooms around the world – newsletters as well as newspapers, social media as well as television, independent investigative sites as well as reader-funded non-profits – to join the Covering Climate Now community and help your fellow journalists produce incredible work that engages audiences, has the power to hold you accountable, and inspires change.
To learn more about the establishment of CCNow, see these pieces by our co-founders, Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope: “A New Beginning for Climate“and”The Media Is Satisfied While The World Burns.” For media inquiries and to view news coverage of CCNow, please visit us media page. Check out our FAQs hereand contribute to support CCNow mission.
Here is the latest message:
Climate Change Violence
Climate change often manifests as violence, and violence often exacerbates climate change. The past weeks have illustrated both sides of this bleak coin. With extremely warm ocean waters, Hurricanes Helene and Milton caused death and destruction in the southeastern US. On the other side of the world, large amounts of oil burned by tanks, planes, and other equipment in the war in Ukraine, the Middle East, and central Africa are releasing even more pollution.
Helping audiences understand the connection between climate change and war is a challenge for journalists. When a hurricane or a missile kills people or destroys a house today, describing the horror seems more important than explaining the cause and effect.
On October 7, Ukraine bombed Russia’s main oil terminal in Crimea, unleashing high black plumes of carbon-dense smoke. Israel is expanding its war from Gaza to Lebanon and is reportedly considering an attack on Iran’s vast oil fields. The Sudanese military bombed a market in Khartoum, adding to 23 casualties in a war that has killed tens of thousands. Rebel attacks continue in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where years of conflict have displaced 8 or more million people.
In May, a Covering Climate Now press briefing explained that modern warfare carries a huge, though often hidden, carbon footprint. Neta C. Crawford, professor of international relations at the University of Oxford, highlighted the role of direct emissions, such as carbon dioxide released by the bombing of Russian oil terminals. Indirect emissions, such as the loss of carbon sinks when forests or wetlands are destroyed, are also important. “War causes climate change more than any other way,” Crawford said.
Degradation of urban areas causes direct and indirect emissions. Rawan Damen, director general of Arab Journalists for Investigative Journalism, called on news organizations to make it clear how the war in Gaza is not only killing men, women, and children, but also “taking away trees, greenhouses, farms … the entire ecosystem where it disappeared before our eyes.” Reconstruction of war-torn areas is another source of emissions, added panelist Ellie Kinney of the Conflict and Environment Observatory, making green recovery plans critical.
However, the role of war as a driver of climate change is obscured by gaps in international governance. As Chelsea Harvey reported in Politico’s E&E News following a CCNow press briefing, “Nations participating in the Paris climate agreement are not required by the United Nations to report carbon emissions from their armies and aircraft or warships and weapons.” The US military, with hundreds of overseas bases and a budget larger than the military budgets of the next nine countries combinedis the world’s largest annual carbon emitter, Crawford calculate.
Journalism alone cannot end wars or climate change. But our report can explain how these two instruments of violence reinforce each other and, perhaps, how they can be defused.
https://mailchi.mp/coveringclimatenow/the-violence-of-climate-change?e=26b08cfb8d
In short, they cannot give a toss about all the death and suffering in this war. The real concern is carbon emissions!
What scum!
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