Hate to Say We Told You So, with Brian Kahn

Climate disasters are piling on top of the pandemic and ongoing nationwide civil rights protests, but you wouldn't necessarily know it from reading or watching the news. Brian Kahn, managing editor at Earther, joins us to talk about why so many outlets have a hard time applying a climate lens to stories that aren't about emissions or weather, the storytelling talents of climate deniers, and the need to undo decades worth of bad climate coverage that prioritized the appearance of objectivity over the truth.
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Articles discussed:
This Is What Climate Change Looks Like in an Era of Covid-19 
The surprising reasons why people ignore the facts about climate change
The curse of ‘both-sidesism’: How climate denial skewed media coverage for 30 years
Two Tropical Cyclones Could Make US Landfall This Weekend
Corporate TV news needs to break its cycle of shallow coverage of extreme weather
Corporate broadcast TV news fails to connect extreme heat to climate, COVID-19, or racial injustice
Climate Science Has a Blind Spot When it Comes to Heat Waves in Southern Africa
The World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Is on Fire 
As Climate Change Burns Arizona, State Has More Imprisoned Firefighters Than Employees
Accepting Death by Coronavirus or Climate Crisis Is Not an Option
Trump's Racist Coronavirus Response Foreshadows Injustice to Come
How The Fossil Fuel Industry Funds The Police 
Big Oil