CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent Flew 6,600 Miles to Say We Must Cut Carbon
Townhall | 03/01/2023 | Spencer Brown

Bill Weir, CNN’s chief climate correspondent, delivered a story to viewers on some scientists’ warning that “90% of ice around Antarctica has disappeared in less than a decade.” The topic and angle are normal fare for CNN and Don Lemon who hosted the segment, but it’s notable that Weir reported on the scientists’ warning while in Ushuaia, Argentina, near the tip of South America.

“For the second year in a row, the south pole is shrinking, the ice down here is shrinking,” Weir reported. “It’s very worrying because Antarctica is a continent surrounded by oceans, and that sea ice protects those ice shelves from unlocking all that ice,” the climate reporter continued.

Vice President Kamala Harris clarified:

“Antarctica is a continent surrounded by oceans, and is in an area of not only both Antarctica, but also adjacent oceans. I think we can all see the interconnectedness of the Antarctic Ocean with the ocean. And with Antarctica.”

Joe Biden claimed to have spent most Sunday mornings worshipping there.

“If it dumps into the oceans en masse, [it] would rearrange every city from Miami to Shanghai along the coasts around the world,” Weir warned, saying the situation with Antartica’s ice “could be a tipping point” leading to “disasters we don’t want to have to imagine.”

Don Lemon asked what, if anything, can be done to avoid the “tipping point” and “disasters” Weir warned of, to which CNN’s leading climate correspondent had an answer with a nearly lethal lack of self-awareness.

“It’s the same answer as it has been for generations,” Weir said. “The faster we can move away from fuels that burn — in the speediest and most equitable way possible — the less horrible this gets that’s the only way right now,” he added.

“Not only stopping it at the source,” Weir continued, “but pulling carbon out of the sea and sky — carbon removal is going to be the biggest industry you’ve never heard of,” Weir said.

And here I thought taking glamour photos of interns while they treat me to cocktails and lunch in Malibu is going to be the biggest industry I never heard of.