How it starts
The Climate Reality Project, an activist group founded by former Vice President Al Gore in 2006, has decided it needs to dictate to the news networks how to report on climate.
In an online petition, it seeks the public to force ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and Fox News to change their ways. They’re not calling it a crisis or an emergency, you see.
“When stronger storms and hotter wildfires leave millions homeless, it’s a crisis,” the organization said. “When runaway global warming threatens our food and water, it’s a crisis. When our kids walk out of school because their future is at stake, it’s a crisis. But the coverage we see on television doesn’t match the reality outside our windows.”
Only 3.5% of news segments use the right words, the group maintained. It also likes the term “urgent, existential threat.”