It’s more that the owning family is incredibly wealthy, and believes in regularly presenting their viewers with right-wing views.

They actually brought in somebody who isn’t a regular columnist to make this claim; even Dowd isn’t this bonkers.

Definitely want a hard block like other platforms. The fact that ‘block’ is treated as ‘mute’ is really damaging in terms of enabling harassment.

Here’s a gift link you can edit into your post so people don’t hit the paywall

critically thinking

A lot of people don’t, and it’s generally hard to do when looking at TV instead of a printed article.

Now you work to change the rules of society so that we can stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and limit the amount of additional warming we see.

Being colder than historic averages is pretty unusual at this point

In the US there are a bunch (all Democrats) who reject oil company executive and lobbyist money

Emissions haven’t been constant over those few decades; fossil fuel burning has been rising about 3% each year, so that half the cumulative CO2 emissions since the industrial revolution have happened since the early 1980s.. That’s what took us from “predicted change” to “crisis” now instead of at some earlier time.