“There are media outlets and there are journalists who are helping us connect the dots, but too often in our mainstream media and network news coverage, cable news, they’re not connecting the dots. There is some talk about the extreme nature of these weather events, but there’s a real teaching opportunity, there’s a real learning opportunity for the public in connecting the dots and explaining that this isn’t just a random event; it’s part of [a] coherent larger pattern, which is being impacted, which is being influenced, which is being made more frequent and more intense by climate change.
“That’s a huge lost opportunity when the media does not connect those dots for the people, because this is the face of climate change, and we have to understand it’s not just about polar bears up in the Arctic. It’s about extreme damaging weather events that we’re experiencing now in real time.”
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/02/summer-weather-climate-change