>>> IF YOU WERE TO SAY TO ME,
CHRIS, WHOS THE ABSOLUTE LAST
PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO ANYONE
SHOULD TRUST TO RUN A WEATHER
CHANNEL, I WOULD BE HARD PRESSED
TO THINK SOMEONE WORSE THAN
RUPERT MURDOCH, THE OWNER OF FOX
NEWS.
BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT MURDOCH
PLANS TO DO WITH THE FOX WEATHER
CHANNEL, A 24 HOUR STREAMING
CHANNEL LATER THIS YEAR.
URN DOUBTEDLY MURDOCH WILL TRY
TO DO FOR THE EARTHS CLIMATE
WHAT HES DONE FOR DEMOCRACY.
ITS NOT LIKE IT WOULD BE
SOMETHING NEW FOR THEM.
>> IF YOU WANT TO MAKE ELECTRIC
CARS THE CHOICE FOR AMERICANS,
YOU DONT TRY TO HIT THEM WITH
GUILT AND VIRTUE SIGNALING AND
TRYING IT TO A CLIMATE CRISIS
THAT DOES NOT EXIST.
>> THIS UNHOLY ALLIANCE IS
BETWEEN THE UNIONS, WHICH ARE
THEIR TRADITIONAL BASE, AND THE
RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS WHO
ARE DEMANDING WE CHANGE EVERY
ASPECT OF OUR LIVES AND UNDERCUT
OUR ECONOMY SO WE CAN FIGHT THE
WEATHER.
>> ACTING LIKE THE WORLD IS
GOING TO BLOW UP IN 12 YEARS
BECAUSE COWS ARE FARTING
SOMEWHERE IS THE DUMBEST THINGS
IVE EVER HEARD.
>> YOU KNOW WHAT GREENHOUSE GAS
EMISSIONS ARE?
YOU EVERY DRIVE BY THE ROAD AND
SEE A GREENHOUSE AND FLOWERS ARE
GROWING AND TOMATOES ARE
GROWING?
ITS CALLED THE ATMOSPHERE.
COMMIT
CARBON DIOXIDE IS NOT POLLUTION.
>> RUPERT MURDOCH AND HIS MEDIA
CONGLOMERATE HAS BEEN CRUCIALLY
IMPORTANT TO CLIMATE DENIAL
ACROSS THE ENTIRE
ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD ON THREE
CONTINENTS.
AFTER AUSTRALIA WAS DEVASTATED
BY WILDFIRES THAT BURNED 46
MILLION ACRES IN 2019 AND 2020,
THAT COUNTRYS FORMER PRIME
MINISTER CALLED MURDOCH OUT FOR
HIS PART IN THE DISASTER.
>> THE REALITY IS NEWS CORP AND
MURDOCH HAVE DONE ENORMOUS
DAMAGE TO WESTERN DEMOCRACY AND
IN PARTICULAR TO THE UNITED
STATES AND AUSTRALIA AND IN
PARTICULAR ON THE SUBJECT OF
GLOBAL WARMING.
THE CAMPAIGN ON CLIMATE DENIAL
IS JUST STAGGERING, AND ITS
DONE ENORMOUS DAMAGE TO THE
WORLD, YOU KNOW, TO THE GLOBAL
NEED TO ADDRESS GLOBAL WARMING.
>> IN FACT, MURDOCHS NEWS CORP,
WHICH IS AMONG THE LARGEST MEDIA
COMPANIES IN AUSTRALIA, WAS
FOUND TO BE PART OF ANOTHER WAVE
OF MISINFORMATION.
AN INDEPENDENT STUDY THERE FOUND
ONLINE BOTS AND TROLLS
EXAGGERATING THE ROLE OF ARSON
IN THE FIRES AT THE SAME TIME
THAT AN ARTICLE IN HIS
NEWSPAPER, THE AUSTRALIAN,
MAKING SIMILAR ASSERTIONS BECAME
THE MOST POPULAR OFFERING ON THE
NEWSPAPERS WEBSITE.
ITS REALLY NOT A STRETCH TO SAY
RUPERT MURDOCHS MEDIA EMPIRE
RIGHT UP THERE WITH THE WORLDS
FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES STOPPED US
FROM TAKING ACTION ON CLIMATE
CHANGE SOONER, CONTINUES TO
BLOCK US, AND WERE NOW DEALING
WITH THE FALLOUT.
THE MONTH OF JUNE HAD RECORD
SETTING HEAT.
IT WAS THE HOTTEST ON RECORD IN
BOSTON.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, HAD ITS
HOTTEST DAY EVER.
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, TIED
ITS RECORD.
THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CRAZY
TEMPERATURES WE SAW IN THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST THAT REACHED
WELL OVER 100 DEGREES AND THE
HOTTEST DAY EVER IN THE HISTORY
OF CANADA IN A TOWN THAT WAS
BURNED TO A CRISP LITERALLY TO
THE GROUND JUST A DAY AFTER OR
SO IT SET THE RECORD.
BUT IT WAS NOT JUST NORTH
AMERICA, NO, NO, NO.
METEOROLOGIST SCOTT DUNCAN
SHARED THIS HEAT MAP OF
SCANDINAVIA SHOWING A NORWEGIAN
TOWN FAR ABOVE THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
MEASURING OVER 34 DEGREES
CELSIUS OR MORE THAN 93 DEGREES
FAHRENHEIT, THE HIGHEST
TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED AT
THAT LATITUDE.
SO ONE CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW
WEATHER CHANNEL PRACTICING
CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL WOULD
APPROACH THESE STORIES.
HOW WOULD THEY EXPLAIN THE
INSANE HEAT IN PORTLAND AND
SEATTLE?
WHAT SHADES OF BLUE WOULD THEY
USE TO DESCRIBE THE TEMPERATURE
IN SCANDINAVIA RIGHT NOW?
WOULD THEY ATTEMPT TO CREATE A
NEW REALITY WHERE THE WORLD IS
NOT REALLY GETTING HOTTER?
THERE IS SOMETHING COMFORTING
ABOUT THAT SPECIFIC DELUSION, A
WORLD THATS NOT GETTING HOTTER.
BUT THATS NOT THE WORLD WE LIVE
IN.
THE WORLD WE LIVE IN IS GETTING
HOTTER.
THE WORLD WE LIVE IN IS BEING
RAVAGED BY THAT HEAT.
THAT HEAT WILL CAUSE
INCALCULABLE HUMAN MISERY, AND
THAT MISERY IS THANKS IN LARGE
PART TO RUPERT MURDOCH AND HIS
LIFES WORK.
MURDOCH IS 90 NOW, SO HE WILL
NOT BE HERE TO SEE ALL OF WHAT
HE PUT INTO MOTION.