We’re missing the huge climate story unfolding right now

By Felicity Duncan

I read a sobering article on The New Republic over the weekend and I highly recommend it. In the article, science reporter Emily Atkin outlines some of the extraordinary climate events that have been taking place worldwide in the last few weeks — wildfires in Greece and Sweden, deadly heatwaves in Japan and California, drought in formerly rain-soaked Oregon.

More chillingly, she notes how few media outlets have joined the dots on these stories for their readers. Scientists and climate models agree that these weather events are related, extreme, and linked to human-induced climate change. Yet almost no media outlets are talking about them as if they are connected. It's as if the media were covering outbreaks of Ebola in twenty countries and not acknowledging that they are all part of the same plague. 

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