What California’s dying sea lions have to do with Tuesday’s election
What California’s Dying Sea Lions Have to Do with Tuesday’s Election
When a Marin County resident called the Marine Mammal Center about a sick sea lion, staff had already taken 500 calls that day. Marine mammals have been dying along California’s coast since last year, and the cause is the ocean itself. Warming water and vanishing ice have crashed the small prey that sea lions and gray whales depend on, and starvation is spreading. Now a persistent marine heat wave off the central and southern coast is being compounded by a historic El Niño. Sea lions can’t vote for the ocean, but we can, and the candidates who treat climate change as a real threat will decide how many more wash ashore.
Major news outlets and Democrats are pretending weather isn’t affected by climate
Along with ongoing coverage of the latest bombings and missile and drone attacks in Iran and the oil-rich Gulf states, extreme weather events are also providing lead segments on evening news programs this summer. What you don’t see in much of the TV coverage, at least not since the beginning of President Trump’s second term as president, is any mention of climate change. Without that link, watching people like ABC’s David Muir on “the most watched newscast in America” ask network meteorologists to explain the conditions — but never the causes of their nightly footage of burning, flooding landscapes and traumatized people — is excruciating.
