A week of plus 25 degree celcius weather is news on the west coast, which has been slow to see spring arrive this year. The morning news today reports that street vendors can’t keep bottled water in stock, air conditioner sales are up and forest fires are a concern. Slow news day.
I just found it amusing because the news cast carelessly commented on climate change in relation to the weather. Something along the lines of “oh yeah, well, you know…climate change”. I’m not sure if dismissive aknowledgement is helping to promote public awareness and climate action… or if the careless nature of the comment degrades the importance of being aware.
Thoughts?
I think it is ironic that the news media now so casually mentions climate change with almost every story about weird weather. As some of the climate scientists have said when the anti-global warming crowd pointed to cooler than normal weather, weather does not equal climate. The climate can change and still show variations above and below normal. It is nicely dismissive. And it doesn’t provide any historical context. It just is and we didn’t have anything to do with it and, more importantly, there is nothing we can do about it so we don’t have to do anything. Nice to get absolution without being required to change our behavior.