'The climate crisis demands substance,' writes critic LorraineAli. 'Social media and cable news demand spectacle. CNN's climate town hall illuminated the gulf between them.'
Two nights. Twenty contenders. Dozens of promises. One election that’s still 17 months away.
There was little political theater because there were no reality show-worthy insults or personal attacks. Everyone that walked on stage was at least professional enough to pay attention to the the true enemy: global warming. Had this been a forum of Republican candidates, it would have been an entirely different production, and likely a media spectacle. Fox’s “Climate Change: Another Obama Hoax?” town hall would start at the beginning. “Is global warming real?” Prove it, they might ask, in between news breaks showing homes underwater and trees splintered into popsicle sticks.
To be fair, the White House was focused on the storm, or at least their version of it. During an Oval Office briefing Wednesday, Trump showed a map of the National Hurricane Center forecast from last week that appeared to be doctored with black Sharpie to show that Alabama — a state that few, if any, meteorologists said was under threat — was in Dorian’s potential path.
The questionable map came after Trump incorrectly tweeted over the weekend that it was headed for Alabama. The National Weather Service in Birmingham, Ala., responded by tweeting “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east.”
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