China Joe Admin Won’t Call What’s Going On At The Border A Crisis

By William Teach March 14, 2021 – 9:31 am

Of course not, because they pretty much asked for this. Maybe they didn’t think it would be so bad, but, this is what they got. Of course, Dementia Joe probably has no idea what’s actually going on

The word the Biden administration won’t use when it comes to the border? ‘Crisis’

The Biden administration is facing what it admits is an “overwhelming” number of migrants at the southern border while scrambling to construct new facilities to hold child migrants — but it is doggedly refusing to describe the situation as a “crisis.”

Agents in the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas are encountering 1,500 migrants a day, overwhelming the sector — and Fox News on Saturday obtained exclusive photographs of a temporary outdoor processing site there in Mission, Texas.

This site is near the point of contact after the migrants illegally cross the Rio Grande River. There, they sort them among family units, unaccompanied minors and single adults and bus them to the appropriate destinations.

“Bus them.” Why? Send them away. Don’t let them in. We have no compelling need to bring them in. What happens if you show up at the White House and demand to be let in through the fencing? How about the Congressional buildings (main one and offices) surrounded by lots of fencing? CIA building? FBI? Fort Knox? Military bases? Only if you are authorized, if you are meant to be there. Why are we simply letting in people who will disappear into the US interior?

But the administration isn’t calling the situation a crisis.

“It doesn’t matter what you call it. It is an enormous challenge,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday, before saying: “We don’t feel the need to, you know, play games with what it’s called.”

While numbers have been increasing at the border for months, particularly of unaccompanied children (UACs) and family units, they have spiked since President Biden took office. The number of UACs in custody has tripled in recent weeks, while there were more than 100,000 migrant encounters in February.

The Biden administration has claimed it is moving to replace the “cruelty” of the prior administration with a more “humane” system and warned that will take time. But it has refused to acknowledge that there is in fact a “crisis” — preferring instead to describe it as a “challenge.”

It’s “cruelty” to not let people in who have no business here? Let’s see Democrats put them up at their own homes. You how not a crisis it is?

Mayorkas, who last week flat-out denied there was a crisis, this week emailed DHS staff urging them to volunteer to help CBP at the border amid what he described as “overwhelming” numbers.

“Today, I activated the Volunteer Force to support Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as they face a surge in migration along the Southwest Border,” Mayorkas said in an email to staff, seen by Fox News.

“You have likely seen the news about the overwhelming numbers of migrants seeking access to this country along the Southwest Border,” he said. “President Biden and I are committed to ensuring our Nation has a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system while continuing to balance all of the other critical DHS missions.”

So not a crisis that they activated the Volunteer Force. And we have a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system. People apply for work and other visas to come for a period of time. Others apply to become citizens, are accepted, and go through a long process. Rather than just bringing in people with limited skills, limited education, limited money, and often have lots of 3rd world diseases.

EDITORIAL: How the border crisis could define Biden’s presidency

Joe Biden has spent his first couple of months in office enjoying what his predecessor never had: a presidential honeymoon. Americans have rewarded Biden with early approval ratings of 60 percent or higher. He may be benefiting from the inevitable diminishing of the coronavirus as cases decline and more states reopen. Or the public may simply be relieved to have a president who isn’t perpetually in the spotlight, even if he doesn’t always seem aware of the fact he is president.

But no honeymoon can last too long, and Biden’s is coming to an end at America’s southern border, where a crisis is escalating. Eighty thousand people tried illegally to cross the border in January, double the figure of a year ago. In February, nearly 100,000 did the same. At current rates, the spring and summer may bring hundreds of thousands more. Caught off-guard, the Biden administration has scrambled to reopen ‘facilities for migrant children’. Just weeks earlier, Democrats had called such facilities American ‘concentration camps’.

America’s border has become the first serious failure of the Biden presidency. Texas congressman Vicente Gonzalez has warned that the rate new arrivals are being admitted at will invite thousands more to make the journey north, and will be ‘catastrophic’ for his district and the country. Gonzalez isn’t a white nationalist; he is a Hispanic Democrat.

In Tijuana, migrants have sported t-shirts and printed signs begging ‘Biden, Please Let Us In!’ And why shouldn’t they? It is exactly that kind of sentimentalism that will inevitably push Biden to do exactly that.We can all pretend to be merciful.

But the difficult truth is that no act of God created the disaster at the border. It is a wholly human mess, created by America’s leadership class. Migrants have discovered that if they arrive at the border and say the right words about violence in their perpetually violent home countries, they will be freely admitted without fear of deportation. Once inside the country, they can benefit from a glacial asylum-review process, and even if their petition is rejected, they had little to fear from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Here’s What To Blame For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach March 13, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Interestingly, and, as usual, climate cultists never actually blame themselves. It’s always Big Things that they engage in but won’t themselves give up

5 causes of climate change: From fossil fuels to capitalism

In the midst of a global pandemic, some find it difficult to think about anything else. We’re already living a once-in-a-lifetime event, right, so why should any other issue take political precedence? Unfortunately, the problems that existed before coronavirus haven’t gone away. Climate change is one key example.

Before Donald Trump, the United States wasn’t exactly the pinnacle of environmentalism. But under the former president, the U.S. took major steps back. Notably, Trump did away with numerous environmental policies and withdrew from the Paris climate accords. So when President Biden took office in January 2021, he inherited not only the ongoing pandemic, but a worsening climate crisis, too.

#TrumpDerangementSyndrome

So, what can the government actually do? While taking individual action isn’t bad, focusing on that alone allows big players to shirk responsibility. They keep on with business as usual, while we’re all too busy policing each other for using disposable straws. Really, the responsibility for climate change extends far beyond you and me. Let’s break down some of the five major causes of climate change to see what I mean.

  1. Fossil fuel extraction (this is an obvious one, but, notice that most Warmists refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels)
  2. The U.S. military (because, of course Warmists hate the U.S. military. They’re fine with China’s)
  3. Mass agriculture (you know, how all these Warmist urban dwellers are able to eat without doing anything but going to the store/restaurant)
  4. Deforestation (let’s tear down all the giant buildings in urban areas and replace them with trees (BTW, deforestation is actually an environmental issue, and I despise deforestation))
  5. Honestly, capitalism

Let’s see that last one, which is really the point

I’ve listed out some major players in climate change, but let’s be real. Capitalism is the driving force behind each and every thing that I mentioned.

Capitalism is the reason that countries prioritize big business over people’s lives. It’s the reason that countries in the global south, who are the least responsible for climate change, continue to bear the brunt of its effects while a select few in the global north profit. As science journalist Matt Simon wrote in Wired, “Capitalism has steamrolled this planet and its organisms, gouging out mountains, overexploiting fish stocks, and burning fossil fuels to power the maniacal pursuit of growth and enrich a fraction of humanity.”

Sure, we all have individual things we can do to lessen our carbon footprint. And certainly, we need to re-examine how we live our daily lives. We need to think about our relationship to the land, other people, and the non-human animal species who are also being devastated by this crisis. However, if we remain focused on individual actions, then we will be consumed by a monster much bigger than us.

See, it’s cool for people to engage in capitalism itself, it just needs to have the big companies (which is weird, since so many, especially the giants, are Democratic Party donors) cut down and controlled by government. And the true, ultimate point?

Instead, we must be a collective, big enough to take on anything, while understanding that confronting climate change means that the U.S. and other Western countries must reimagine their economic structures overall. To put it simply: Ending climate change necessitates an end of capitalism.

Surprise?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 13, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible processing plant which might possibly be fossil fuels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on those mostly peaceful protesters starting fires in the Portland federal courthouse. With people in it.

Doubleshot below the fold, check out Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Ilhan Omar wanting to take your rental property.

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Surprise: COVID Continues To Fall In Open Florida

By William Teach March 13, 2021 – 10:30 am

Florida and Governor Ron DeSantis have taken a lot of grief from Democrats for the way they’ve handled things during COVID. They were one of the least strict states. They never had a statewide mandate for masks, and DeSantis suspended all fines and penalties associated with not adhering to COVID-19-related restrictions on Sept. 25, hindering local leaders from enforcing their mandates. They’ve kept as much of the state open as possible. They really didn’t stop spring breakers last year, and you can bet if there had been big outbreaks it would have made the news. Same with this year. So, obviously, doom, right?

COVID cases continue to fall in Florida despite variants, hinting that America could avoid a ‘4th wave’

Ever since U.S. COVID-19 cases started their precipitous post-holiday decline, Americans have been anxious about the threat of yet another hurdle on the long road to recovery: a possible “fourth wave” of infections driven by the newer, more contagious U.K. variant known as B.1.1.7. Experts, meanwhile, have been watching Florida as a bellwether — the place where a fourth wave would probably crash first.

After all, Florida has more documented B.1.1.7 cases than any other state. It’s also rolled back precautions more quickly than most. If a spike is coming, the thinking went, Florida is where it would start.

Except … it hasn’t started yet.

Quite the opposite, in fact. After peaking on Jan. 8 at just under 18,000, Florida’s average daily case count has fallen by nearly 75 percent; today it’s down to 4,800. Hospitalizations have declined by half over the same period, as has Florida’s positivity rate (which now stands at 5.9 percent). And while other states such as New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee and Idaho are starting to see cases plateau — or even inch upward — as residents relax and restrictions are loosened, Florida’s case and hospitalization numbers have continued to fall by about 10 percent each week.

“We have a bellwether to know if the B.1.1.7 strain will hit the US — Florida,” Dr. Eric Topol of Scripps Research wrote earlier this week. “And there’s no sign of any increase in cases. All good so far.”

It’s probably helpful if the Blue staters stay in their own blue cities, rather than escaping and traveling and bringing COVID with them, as happened early on in the first few months of 2020. But, Florida haters (because it’s a Republican state) really, really want Florida to tank (which would mean people getting sick and dying) for political purposes

The key phrase, as always during this unpredictable pandemic, is “so far.” Just because a variant-driven fourth wave hasn’t yet struck Florida (or the U.S. as a whole) doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t, and nothing heightens the risk of another surge more than reckless, maskless indoor gatherings — at full-capacity restaurants; at crowded bars; at private parties — with lots of unvaccinated people. Events such as this week’s 300,000-person motorcycle rally in Daytona Beach are still risky. Like all Americans, Floridians should proceed with caution.

First, if people want to take that risk, that’s on them. It’s not government’s place to restrict freedom, even if it’s people making poor choices. Me, I wouldn’t go there. I’m fine with social distancing, no touching, washing hands a lot, don’t touch face (which is why I’m OK with a mask, because I’ll touch my face a lot during the day). That’s me. If you want to do different, OK with me, just don’t get in my space. I’ll avoid those situations.

But, what happens when there is no big spread? You won’t hear a peep out of the news.

Of course, Floridians have for months enjoyed more “freedom” to crowd indoors (without masks) than many of their fellow Americans, a fact that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis takes pride in. But that only strengthens the case for fourth-wave optimism. If a state with a lot of B.1.1.7 and not a lot of restrictions is still doing OK, shouldn’t the rest of the country take that as a sign of hope?

The tentative answer is yes. America’s overall immunity numbers are almost identical to Florida’s: 30 percent infected, 19 percent vaccinated, about 40 percent protected to some degree. Spring is 10 days away; the weather will only get warmer. And cases and hospitalizations continue to fall nationwide by 10 to 15 percent a week.

So, perhaps lockdown didn’t work, and DeSantis was right.

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Surprise: Whistle Blowers Say US Should Move Money Out Of Green Climate Fund

By William Teach March 13, 2021 – 7:35 am

Gee, who would have thought that a United Nations program/fund would have such a problem, especially when it involves climate cultists?

Green Climate Fund whistleblowers urge US to take its money elsewhere – until ‘toxic’ workplace is fixed

John Kerry is promising the US will “make good” on its contribution to the Green Climate Fund.

The presidential climate envoy is seeking to rebuild bridges with the rest of the world after Donald Trump reneged on US climate commitments.

Delivering a $2 billion outstanding pledge to the UN-backed climate fund, for distribution to projects in developing countries, is widely seen as a good place to start.

Campaigners are calling on the Biden administration to commit a further $6bn to the fund. Yannick Glemarec, executive director of the fund, says US reengagement “will send an extraordinarily positive signal” and allow it to accelerate support for the green recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

Or, we could spend that money on American citizens who are suffering during a global pandemic. We could spend it on fixing lots of the infrastructure. We could spend it on research and development for renewables, making them more effective. We could spend it on the homeless. We could send every single American a Kindle Paperwhite and a years worth of Kindle Unlimited. At least those are real issues.

But the latest staff survey results, presented internally last month and seen by Climate Home News, show faith in the fund’s leadership is at rock bottom. Views of the senior management team were 24% favourable, 40% unfavourable.

Unless there is urgent reform, whistleblowers tell Climate Home News, the money would be better directed elsewhere. 

Three employees of the GCF secretariat who quit in 2019 and 2020 cite concerns about a lack of integrity in vetting projects and abuses of power creating a hostile working environment. This, they say, affects the quality of projects on the ground.

“Sincerely, I don’t think that the GCF, the way it is managed today, is a good channel for climate finance,” says Pierre-Daniel Telep, a German national with Cameroonian heritage who worked on renewable energy projects at the fund for two and a half years.

The UN isn’t particularly known for their integrity when it comes to projects and spending. Especially when it comes to money given from nations where there are no strings attached, since it is deemed that the 1st World nations owe it to the developing nations

Some of the most problematic bids came from countries hosting GCF board meetings and expecting to secure multi-million-dollar investments in return. 

Bahrain put in a bid for $32 million ahead of hosting one such meeting in October 2018. Despite oil export wealth putting it in the World Bank’s “high income” bracket, it is classed as a developing country under the UN climate convention – and therefore eligible for international climate finance. 

And they ended up getting money. Not $32 million, but, about $3 million. No need.

Then there are concerns about the workplace culture. 

In August 2020, the Financial Times reported on a wave of misconduct allegations at the fund. It cited the Re-Green Initiative – a network claiming to represent staff – and interviews with 17 current and former employees who remained anonymous. 

Complaints to the fund’s Independent Integrity Unit (IIU) nearly doubled to 40 in 2019, with 24 categorised as staff misconduct. Subsequent analysis by the IIU found that while the overall complaint rate was within range of similar institutions, the rate of misconduct allegations was significantly higher: 7.5 per 100 staff, compared to 1.8 at the World Bank and 2.8 at the Asian Development Bank. 

In fairness, most of these people are hardcore leftists who whine about everything, conflate minor things into mountains. “Triggered”. Offended. So, I’d take that with a grain of salt.

The 2020 staff survey included new questions designed to “probe pain points” identified through a series of “safe space” meetings. It showed there was a long way to go to regain staff trust: only one in three respondents (31%) said they believed action would be taken to address the problems identified.

If you need safe spaces, you perhaps should go work elsewhere. And the worker bees are not in charge, no matter what they think.

For the whistleblowers, fixing the “toxic” workplace culture needs to come first. 

“Personally, I think if the US really cares about climate and not the political angle… a better investment could be something more effective, more nimble, more professionally managed,” says Telep. 

Personally, I think the US should use it’s money on it’s own people.

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Former State Department Investigator Claims COVID Could Have Come From Chinese Bioweapon Research Accident

By William Teach March 13, 2021 – 7:11 am

Something? Not something? It wouldn’t be the first time a virus was released unintentionally from the Wuhan facility. The whole “someone ate a bat or pangolin or something and created a whole new virus” was always a little sketchy, especially when it targeted the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions, but not the very young. And spread around the world very quickly. And one that has quickly created multiple variants in short order. The WHO and the China lovers keep searching for clues to avoid blaming China. Of course, in fairness, it could just be some bad circumstances. But

Former top State Dept investigator says COVID-19 outbreak may have resulted from bioweapons research accident

As top U.S. officials prepare to meet their Chinese counterparts for their first face-to-face meeting during the Biden administration, the State Department’s former lead investigator who oversaw the Task Force into the COVID-19 virus origin tells Fox News that he not only believes the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but that it may have been the result of research that the Chinese military, or People’s Liberation Army, was doing on a bioweapon.

“The Wuhan Institute of Virology is not the National Institute of Health,” David Asher, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute told Fox News in an exclusive interview. “It was operating a secret, classified program. In my view, and I’m just one person, my view is it was a biological weapons program.”

Asher has long been a “follow the money” guy who has worked on some of the most classified intelligence investigations for the State Department and Treasury under both Democratic and Republican administrations. He led the team that uncovered the international nuclear procurement network run by the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, AQ Khan, and uncovered key parts of North Korea’s secret uranium enrichment. He believes the Chinese Communist Party has been involved in a massive cover-up during the past 14 months.

“And if you believe, as I do, that this might have been a weapons vector gone awry, not deliberately released, but in development and then somehow leaked, this has turned out to be the greatest weapon in history,” Asher said during a panel discussion at the Hudson Institute: The Origins of the COVID-10: Policy Implications and Lessons for the Future. “You’ve taken out 15 to 20 percent of global GDP. You’ve killed millions of people. The Chinese population has been barely affected. Their economies roared back to being number one in the entire G20.”

There is that one thing, that, supposedly, Chinese were barely effected. Which could be mule fritters, China could be hiding the numbers. Or, did they have vaccines ready after a leak? Was it designed to not effect Chinese? COVID barely touched Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan, nations with people’s closest genetically to Chinese. Again, it could just be happenstance.

At first, China said the COVID19 virus originated in the Wuhan Seafood Market – but the problem with China’s theory: the first case had no connection to the market. Last fall the US obtained intelligence that indicates there was an outbreak among several Wuhan lab scientists with flu-like symptoms that left them hospitalized in November of 2019 – before China reported its first case. Asher and the other Hudson Institute panel experts said that in 2007, China announced it would begin work on genetic bioweapons using controversial “gain of function” research to make the viruses more lethal.

Realistically, we may never know. But, remember, sometimes the most simple explanation is the correct one.

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Your Fault: Climate Crisis (scam) Could Lengthen Hottest Temps By 6 Months

By William Teach March 12, 2021 – 3:00 pm

We could have endless summer (which also causes massive cold spells and Bad Weather snow), all because you like your burgers

Endless Summer? Climate Crisis Could Lengthen Hottest Temperatures by Six Months

Six months of summer may sound like a school child’s fantasy, but it could be a very real, and very serious, impact of the climate crisis.

A study published in Geophysical Research Letters last month found that summer in the Northern Hemisphere could last nearly six months by 2100 if nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And this could spell “increased risks to humanity,” the study authors warned.

“A hotter and longer summer will suffer more frequent and intensified high-temperature events – heatwaves and wildfires,” Congwen Zhu of the State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather and Institute of Climate System at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, who was not involved with the study, said in an American Geophysical Union (AGU) press release.

The research was based on the observation that summers are already getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere.

Zoinks! Who would think that summers are getting longer during a typical Holocene warm period? Like previous ones.

So Guan’s team looked at climate data from 1952 to 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere. They defined summer as when temperatures began to be 25 percent hotter than during the rest of the year, and winter as when temperatures were in the coldest 25 percent of the year. What they discovered is that seasons are already shifting:

The new study found that, on average, summer grew from 78 to 95 days between 1952 to 2011, while winter shrank from 76 to 73 days. Spring and autumn also contracted from 124 to 115 days, and 87 to 82 days, respectively. Accordingly, spring and summer began earlier, while autumn and winter started later. The Mediterranean region and the Tibetan Plateau experienced the greatest changes to their seasonal cycles.

Consider that from 1952 to about 1978 the Earth was going through a slight cooling period (to the point some where fearmongering about a coming ice age, if you recall), so, it’s not hard to see how it increased. But, especially since they simply set the terms of how they wanted the study to come out in support of the climate cult.

The researchers then used climate models to predict how the length of seasons would change in the future based on how swiftly we act to reduce emissions. They found that, in a business-as-usual scenario, summers would extend nearly six months while winters would last fewer than two.

So, they looked into their crystal ball to make prognostications. Science!

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 12, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow due to Other People refusing to accept a carbon tax, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on a top Biden economic policy advisor being linked to Kashmiri extremists.

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USA Today Gaslights With Claim Cops Kill One Black Woman A Day

By William Teach March 12, 2021 – 10:30 am

And they’re all like Breonna Taylor. Which is an interesting hot take, since Taylor had a long relationship with a big time drug dealer with plenty of violence in his background and Breonna was the one who was handling all the drug money

Black women like Breonna Taylor die every day at the hands of police. It’s time we said their names.

No one sets out to be a Black Lives Matter martyr. But somewhere along the way last year, as masked marchers from Louisville to Las Vegas chanted her name, Breonna Taylor became a symbol of change.

Using a criminal as your martyr is probably not the best, eh?

Taylor’s fate was sealed in the wee hours of March 13, 2020, when three Louisville Metro Police officers burst into the 26-year-old’s apartment on a no-knock warrant, firing 32 bullet rounds and killing the emergency room technician as she stood in her hallway with her boyfriend, who survived.

Now her death is bringing new life to the stories of other Black women who have died at the hands of police or in police custody, those whose names and identities have largely gone unknown and unacknowledged.

While the names of too many Black men and boys killed by police – Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice – are widely known, Black women’s cases have rarely garnered national attention.

Probably because there aren’t that many. And a lot of the men were criminals attacking the police

There’s not a lot of data on the police-involved deaths of Black women; no national registry exists. But The Washington Post has noted nearly 250 women, including 48 Black women, have been shot and killed by police since the newspaper began tracking police-involved shootings in 2015.

So, according to the article the headline is 100% a lie. 48 in 6 years is rather below the threshold of one a day, right? And nowhere in the rest of the screed, which is less an article and more a propping up of the #SayHerName movement, along with the normal hatred for police, is the headline backed up. 48 in 6 years is not many. And, most of them were involved in criminal activity and/or attacking police officers. This is the height of journalistic malpractice.

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Bummer: It’s Mostly White Men Talking About Climate Apocalypse On TV

By William Teach March 12, 2021 – 7:36 am

Obvioiusly, climate change is raaaaacist and seeeeexist

Who’s talking about climate change on TV? Mostly white men.

If you watched news about climate change on TV last year, chances are you saw a white man on-screen.

According to an analysis published this week by Media Matters For America, a nonprofit media watchdog, people of color made up just 8 percent of guests interviewed or featured in the major broadcast networks’ climate coverage in 2020 — we’re looking at you, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox Broadcasting Company. Women were also less likely to be in front of the camera, comprising 28 percent of guests.

Could it be that “people of color”, by which Media Matters means black people, really just do not care about the climate scam? That it’s not something they’re interested in? That, perhaps, especially in 2020, they were more interested in other issues, like police reform? Why are all these white people, especially white males, always trying to force others to be a part of their cult?

The total amount of time that these broadcast networks spent on the climate crisis was down 53 percent compared to 2019. Climate-related segments claimed 112 minutes of airtime over the course of the year, less than your average movie. That’s not because there weren’t worthy stories — wildfires blazed, the Arctic lost historic amounts of ice, and 2020 was tied for the warmest year on record — but likely because the pandemic consumed our lives. The study found that broadcast coverage rarely mentioned the connections between coronavirus and climate change, such as how both disasters disproportionately impact people of color and lower-income communities.

Well, gee, the pandemic was just so inconvenient for the Cult of Climastrology, what with all the people getting sick, people dying, people losing their jobs and businesses.

The underwhelming representation of people of color isn’t new. 2020 marks the fourth consecutive year — as long as Media Matters has been tracking the numbers — that less than 10 percent of network television’s climate guests were people of color. Only six women of color were featured out of the total 89 guests the report identified.

“This lopsided representation flatly ignores the reality that, due to historical and current injustices, climate change disproportionately affects communities of color,” the report’s authors write.

White people telling black people they should care, and black people continuing to not care. Rather white privilege of these climate cultists, eh?

Why, then, have people of color and women repeatedly been underrepresented in broadcast television? Allison Fisher, the director of Media Matters’ climate and energy program, suggested that television news outlets often don’t make the effort to speak to frontline communities, relying on climate scientists and politicians instead. In 2020, a presidential election year, politicians were the most common guests for climate change segments. While climate activists were more commonly featured in prior years, broadcast TV only featured one activist guest this past year — Greta Thunberg, the small but mighty Swedish activist.

Wow, that was patronizing. They totally discount what POC want to think for themselves, that they are not allowed to make their own decisions, that they must think in a certain way, if only the Credentialed Media would talk to them more.

The problem runs deeper than television — it’s partly a reflection of diversity issues in climate science, advocacy, journalism, and politics. Although numbers have ticked up in recent years, people of color still make up a very small percentage, sometimes less than 10 percent, of top environmental groups’ staff, according to Green 2.0, a nonprofit watchdog. If the people leading the most well-known organizations are consistently white men, Fisher said, they’re going to be the ones featured on television.

Did anyone consider that POC might not want to be involved? That they don’t care about those subjects or want to work in those industries? That, perhaps, they care about other things?

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