Wataru Tenkawa 天河航 on Nostr: "As extreme weather becomes more commonplace and climate change raises temperatures ...
"As extreme weather becomes more commonplace and climate change raises temperatures around the globe, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the nation’s roughly 2,000 television meteorologists to stay above the fray.
Consider the case of Chris Gloninger.
An award-winning TV weatherman, Gloninger moved to Iowa in 2021 to take the job of chief meteorologist at KCCI, the CBS affiliate in Des Moines. His new bosses were explicit: They wanted him to talk about climate change.
But many of Gloninger’s conservative viewers felt differently. As he began making the connection between extreme weather and human-caused global warming on the air, he began getting hate mail and even a death threat.
As my colleague Cara Buckley recounts in an article she just published, Gloninger began to feel unsafe and eventually moved back to Massachusetts."
#ClimateChange
TV Weather Gets Political https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/climate/tv-weather-gets-political.html
Consider the case of Chris Gloninger.
An award-winning TV weatherman, Gloninger moved to Iowa in 2021 to take the job of chief meteorologist at KCCI, the CBS affiliate in Des Moines. His new bosses were explicit: They wanted him to talk about climate change.
But many of Gloninger’s conservative viewers felt differently. As he began making the connection between extreme weather and human-caused global warming on the air, he began getting hate mail and even a death threat.
As my colleague Cara Buckley recounts in an article she just published, Gloninger began to feel unsafe and eventually moved back to Massachusetts."
#ClimateChange
TV Weather Gets Political https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/climate/tv-weather-gets-political.html