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Paul Homewood
I've been following Climate Now for a while.
They were founded to influence journalism around the world, essentially by telling lies to advance an alarmist agenda:
Cover climate support now, convening and training journalists and newsrooms to produce rigorous climate reporting that engages audiences.
CCNow, co-founded in 2019 by the Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, The Guardian and WNYC, invites journalists around the world to change how our profession covers the defining stories of our time. Unless news media around the world dramatically improve and expand climate coverage, there simply won’t be the public awareness and political will needed to address the crisis.
and Hundreds of partner news media CCNow, from more than 60 countries and reaching billions of people, helps journalists produce richer, more engaging coverage of the climate crisis and its potential solutions.
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Here is their latest letter:
The violence of climate change
Climate change often manifests itself in violence, and violence often exacerbates climate change. Recent weeks have illustrated both sides of this grim coin. Fueled by superheated water, Hurricanes Helen and Milton caused death and destruction across the southeastern United States. On the other side of the world, the vast amounts of oil burned by tanks, planes and other equipment in wars in Ukraine, the Middle East and Central Africa have released even more heat-trapping pollution.
Helping audiences understand the connection between climate change and war is a challenge for journalists. Today, when hurricanes or missiles kill people or destroy homes, describing these horrific events understandably seems more urgent than explaining their root causes and consequences.
October 7, Ukraine bombed A major oil terminal in Crimea, Russia, has released a towering plume of black carbon smoke. Israel has expanded its war from Gaza to Lebanon and is reportedly considering an attack on Iran's vast oil fields. Sudanese troops bombed a market in Khartoum, killing 23 people in a war that has killed tens of thousands. Rebel attacks continue in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where years of conflict have left a staggering figure of eight or more people displaced.
May, covering climate press conference explained Modern warfare has a huge, albeit often hidden, carbon footprint. Neta C. Crawford, professor of international relations at the University of Oxford, emphasized the role of direct emissions, such as the carbon dioxide released by the Russian oil terminal explosion. Indirect emissions, such as the loss of carbon sinks when forests or wetlands are destroyed, are also important. “War is more likely to cause war than climate change,” Crawford said.
Damage to urban areas causes direct and indirect emissions. Rawan Damen, director-general of the Arab Association of Investigative Journalists, urged news organizations to clarify that the war in Gaza not only killed men, women and children but also “uprooted them.”[s] Trees, greenhouses, farms…the entire ecosystem of this place is disappearing before our eyes. Ellie Kinney, a team member at the Observatory on Conflict and the Environment, added that rebuilding areas devastated by war is another source of emissions, making green recovery plans vital.
Yet the role of war as a driver of climate change is obscured by huge gaps in international governance. as chelsea harvey report Politico's E&E News wrote after the CCNow press conference: “The United Nations does not require countries participating in the Paris climate agreement to report the carbon emissions of their troops, aircraft or warships and weapons.” The U.S. military has hundreds of overseas bases and budgets exceeding The military budgets of the remaining nine countries are even larger. mergedthe world’s largest single annual carbon emitter, Crawford calculate.
News alone cannot prevent war or climate change. But our reporting can clearly show how these two tools 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 couldn't care less about all the death and suffering in these wars. The only thing they really care about is carbon emissions!
What a scum!
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