Is Nepal a Turning Point in Climate Coverage?

Is Nepal a Turning Point in Climate Coverage?

It’s been slow coming, but news coverage of climate change may at last be turning a corner. For years, reporting on climate-related disasters—the superstorm Hurricane Helene that blasted the Southeastern U.S. in 2024, the mega-fires that torched Los Angeles in 2025, the record heat that has scorched Europe and Asia in 2026—rarely mentioned the words “climate change,” despite overwhelming scientific evidence linking such extreme events to human-c…

Nepal tragedy offers a lesson in where climate priorities should lie

The catastrophe on the Nepal-Tibet border is another terrible warning of the dangers facing communities living beneath the world’s great mountain ranges. It is tempting to view every such event through the prism of climate change or unknown factors. The lack of clarity, however, should not obscure the disaster’s larger lesson. On Aug. 26, a massive collapse of rock and glacier ice on the Tibetan side of the border sent debris into the river syst…

'Climate confessional' crowded by guilt-stricken westerners after Nepal tragedy

By CLAYTON WOOD Executive Director of Wears Valley Ranch and Thrive, Tennessee, USA A mountain fell down in the Himalayas. Within hours, prominent voices on the left were on their knees confessing our climate sins. It was not one voice, it was a chorus. Claudia Webbe, a British MP, posted footage of the flood tearing […] The post ‘Climate confessional’ crowded by guilt-stricken westerners after Nepal tragedy appeared first on cairnsnews.org.

The Ghoulish Race to Turn Nepal’s Flood Victims Into a ‘Climate...

The political talking point ignores tens of millions of years of plate tectonics and its consequences, and completely dismisses well-established mountain-weather dynamics. The post The Ghoulish Race to Turn Nepal’s Flood Victims Into a ‘Climate Crisis’ Talking Point appeared first on Watts Up With That?.