Not many people know that
By Paul Homewood
I've been following Covering Climate Now for some time.
They were founded to influence journalism worldwide to advance the alarmist agenda by essentially spreading lies:
Covering Climate Now supports, convenes and trains journalists and newsrooms to produce comprehensive climate coverage that engages audiences.
Founded in 2019 by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation magazine in collaboration with the Guardian and WNYC, CCNow invites journalists around the world to transform the way our profession covers the defining story of our time. If news outlets around the world do not dramatically improve and expand their climate coverage, there simply will not be the public awareness and political will needed to address the crisis.
With hundreds of partner news outlets from over 60 countries reaching billions of people, CCNow helps journalists produce more informative and engaging coverage of the climate crisis and its possible solutions.
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This is her most recent letter:
The violence of climate change
Climate change often manifests itself in violence, and violence often reinforces climate change. The last few weeks have illustrated both sides of this grim coin. Intensified by super-hot seawater, hurricanes Helene and Milton caused death and destruction in the southeastern United States. On the other side of the world, the massive amounts of oil burned by tanks, planes and other equipment in the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East and Central Africa have released even more heat-trapping pollutants.
Helping viewers understand the connections between climate change and war presents challenges for journalists. Today, when hurricanes or missiles kill people or destroy homes, it understandably feels more urgent to describe these horrors than to explain their underlying causes and effects.
On October 7, Ukraine bombed a major Russian oil terminal in Crimea, releasing towering clouds of black smoke with high carbon content. Israel expanded its war from Gaza to Lebanon and was reportedly considering an attack on Iran's vast oil fields. The Sudanese military bombed a market in Khartoum, adding 23 deaths to a war that has killed tens of thousands of people. Rebel attacks continued in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where years of conflict have displaced a staggering eight or more million people.
In May, a Covering Climate Now press conference explained that modern war carries an immense, if often hidden, carbon footprint. Neta C. Crawford, a 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 bombing. Indirect emissions, such as the loss of carbon sinks through the destruction of forests or wetlands, also play a role. “War causes climate change more than the other way around,” Crawford said.
The destruction of urban areas causes both direct and indirect emissions. Rawan Damen, the director general of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, called on news organizations to make clear that the war in Gaza is not only killing but also “uprooting” men, women and children.[s] The trees, the greenhouses, the farms… the entire ecosystem of the place is being lost before our eyes.” Rebuilding areas devastated by war is another source of emissions, which, as panelist Ellie Kinney from the Conflict and Environment Observatory added, makes green recovery plans crucial makes meaning.
Yet the role of war as a driver of climate change is obscured by a gaping loophole in international governance. As Chelsea Harvey reported in Politico's E&E News following the CCNow press conference, “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.” According to calculations by Crawford, the U.S. military is the world's largest annual carbon emitter, with hundreds of bases abroad and a budget larger than the military budgets of the next nine countries combined.
Journalism alone cannot stop war or climate change. But our reporting can make clear how these two instruments of violence could reinforce each other and perhaps also be defused.
https://mailchi.mp/coveringclimatenow/the-violence-of-climate-change?e=26b08cfb8d
In short, they didn't care how much death and suffering there was in these wars. Your only real concern is CO2 emissions!
What scum!
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