First, Maui, then Florida, and now Morroco disasters dominate the news. The media quickly linked the first two disasters to climate change. This analysis isn’t surprising; we link almost every crisis to climate change. However, connecting a 6.8 magnitude quake to climate change is a stretch.

Never fear; journalists can take courses and attend seminars at the “prestigious” Columbia Journalism School. According to the school’s website, “Columbia Journalism School has been training its students to become leading climate change reporters. With changes in the climate endangering lives, ecologies, and economies at global and local levels, the work of journalists is vital for effectively and accurately explaining the science and implications of climate change to the public.” 

If you are not enrolled, you can attend its seminars. A series is coming up, “Climate Changes Everything – Creating a Blueprint for Media Transformation,” to be held September 21 and 22, 2023. The tagline reads: “Join leading journalists from around the world for an unprecedented conversation about how to cover a world on fire.” With the proper training, almost anything can be tied to climate change. Maybe even earthquakes. If there is a way, they’ll find it.

 Have you wondered how the progressive media and politicians always seem on the same page? Academic and other elite gatherings are a great place to get everyone to align. They can discuss the latest scholarly papers at the gatherings, often appearing in prestigious journals. Of course, these have trained editors.

Those papers have to support your positions. No problem. Scientists and others know their papers have little or no chance of making it into “prestigious journals” unless they’re tailored to the views of progressive editors.

Patrick T. Brown tells us how he had to adjust his work to get it into a journal. Mr. Brown explains, “So why does the press focus so intently on climate change as the root cause? Perhaps for the same reasons I just did in an academic paper about wildfires in Nature, one of the world’s most prestigious journals: it fits a simple storyline that rewards the person telling it.”