WUWT:
From the “say anything” department, comes this email where the League of Conservation Voters asks Hillary’s campaign manager John Podesta to “…help us pressure the evening news programs at CBS, NBC, and ABC to make climate science central to their extreme weather coverage this year?”.
The second half of the email is a form letter, and it says:
This is ridiculous.
From record-breaking heat waves and massive wildfires to historic droughts and Superstorm Sandy, we’ve seen with our own eyes the increasing severity and frequency of extreme weather events this past year. Yet in reporting on these disastrous events, the nightly news programs at the major broadcast networks have largely ignored what is fueling this extreme weather – climate change.
As the effects of climate change cause hardship for families across America, we need better coverage if we want people to connect the dots and demand real action to curb global warming pollution.
I agree with the ridiculous part, though not in the way they want. For example, “global warming pollution”. WTF? It is unknown if Podesta took the bait or not, but I do know the link in the email to generate what looks like a letter from Podesta is still active at LCV. I followed it, and it generated this:
Apparently “global warming pollution” was too stupid to include in that letter. And it seems to not have worked, because in January 2014, Media Matters lamented that TV coverage still hadn’t met what happened in 2009, the year “ClimateGate” and the CopenHagen Climate Conference occured:
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