<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 1.05; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 100;">Columbia Journalism Review Oct 12 2018</span></h1><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><h1 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 1.05; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-weight: 100; font-size: 14px;">Yes, Hurricane Michael is a climate change story</span></h1><div class=""><a href="https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/hurricane-michael-climate-change.php" class="">https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/hurricane-michael-climate-change.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">1st 2 paragraphs</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14.4px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 1.6; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.05em;">THE FEROCITY OF HURRICANE MICHAEL</span> came into view on Thursday as images of devastation filtered out of the Florida panhandle. Stories on the storm’s trail of ruin appear on the front pages of today’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/us/hurricane-michael-florida-assessment.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(242, 76, 47); transition: all 0.1s ease-out 0s; text-decoration: none !important;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">New York Times</em></a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/floridas-forgotten-coast-devastated-by-historic-hurricane-michael/2018/10/11/ef9d127a-cd6f-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html?utm_term=.d9b973effb16" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(242, 76, 47); transition: all 0.1s ease-out 0s; text-decoration: none !important;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">Washington Post</em></a>, and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/now-a-tropical-storm-michael-leaves-devastation-in-florida-1539260209" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(242, 76, 47); transition: all 0.1s ease-out 0s; text-decoration: none !important;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">Wall Street Journal</em></a>. In a helicopter above Mexico City, Florida, CNN’s Brooke Baldwin captured <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/10/11/brooke-baldwin-hurricane-michael-damage-helicopter-view-vpx.cnn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(242, 76, 47); transition: all 0.1s ease-out 0s; text-decoration: none !important;">footage of a city flattened</a> by Michael’s powerful winds.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14.4px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 1.6; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Reports on the immediate aftermath are vital to understanding the storm’s impact, but all of those mentioned above failed to include</span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"> any </span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">mention of climate change. </span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">This is particularly disappointing</span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> because, just days before Michael made landfall, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report with a dismal assessment of current global conditions and a warning that the future, soon approaching, is much </span><a href="https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/climate-change-report.php" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; color: rgb(242, 76, 47); transition: all 0.1s ease-out 0s; text-decoration: none !important;">more dire than previously feared</a><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></p></div><div class=""><b class="">Closing paragraphs</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14.4px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 1.6; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">As our understanding of the impact of climate change expands, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">some </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">journalists have taken up the challenge of bringing the topic into the discussion of storms like Michael. “</span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/10/health/sutter-natural-disaster-hurricane-michael/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; color: rgb(242, 76, 47); transition: all 0.1s ease-out 0s; text-decoration: none !important;">Hurricane Michael isn’t a truly ‘natural disaster,’</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> John D. Sutter, a CNN investigative reporter, wrote. “Neither was Harvey in Houston. Nor Maria in Puerto Rico. Yet we continue to use that term. Doing so—especially in the era of climate change—is misleading if not dangerous.” </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14.4px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 1.6; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In Thursday’s </span><em class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">Times</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, Henry Fountain, a climate reporter, explained the “</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/climate/hurricane-michael-climate-change.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; color: rgb(242, 76, 47); transition: all 0.1s ease-out 0s; text-decoration: none !important;">triple threat from climate change: more rain in larger storms on rising seas.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">” </span><em class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">The Atlantic</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">’s Robertson Meyer explained how Michael’s sudden growth could be tied to rising sea levels and warming waters, writing that “scientists won’t formally know whether climate change played a role in Michael’s rapid intensification for several months. But local weather experts have already said </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/hurricane-michael-florida-panhandles-worst-case-scenario/572671/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; color: rgb(242, 76, 47); transition: all 0.1s ease-out 0s; text-decoration: none !important;">Michael is exactly what they would expect to see in a climate-changed world.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">”</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14.4px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 1.6; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Writing on the UN report, the <em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">Post</em>’s Margaret Sullivan argued that “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-planet-is-on-a-fast-path-to-destruction-the-media-must-cover-this-like-its-the-only-story-that-matters/2018/10/08/f806a7f0-caea-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html?utm_term=.50edaf454226" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(242, 76, 47); transition: all 0.1s ease-out 0s; text-decoration: none !important;">when it comes to climate change, we—the media, the public, the world—need radical transformation, and we need it now.</a>” That transformation could include reporting on climate changes impact on any number of issues, from the economy to immigration to warfare. With the country focused on coverage of Michael’s destruction, the opportunity to bring climate change into the discussion is there for the taking, and it shouldn’t be ignored.</p><div id="mc_embed_signup" class="hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 40px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; background-color: rgb(242, 76, 47); font-family: "Lyon Text Web"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><center class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"></center></div></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"></div></div></div></div><div class="">
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