Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

NPR closes Climate Desk, fires climate reporters
Not The Bee ^ | June 03, 2026 | Joel Abbott

Posted on 06/03/2026 5:31:55 AM PDT by Red Badger

Nature is healing.

VIDEOS AT LINK....................

Yes, failing NPR had a whole division of reporters dedicated to reporting climate hysteria. It would have been fine if they'd stuck to conservation and science instead of the anti-human cult thinking that says we're all gonna die if we don't stop the farting cows.

Here's the scoop from former Chief Climate Editor Neela Banerjee:

I've been at NPR for six years, and for the last three, I worked as head of its (relatively new) climate desk. We were 10 people who did ambitious, prize-winning enterprise and broke news. We launched an annual network-wide Climate Solutions Week that set the standard for cooperation with member stations and that gave audiences a sense of agency and inspiration amid the planetary gloom. We built a reporting collaborative of more than 50 member stations which covered climate at the local level and became tightly knit in the process. We broke down silos within NPR and helped our colleagues at shows, podcasts and desks understand climate change in their contexts.

It was a grand run. Today, I was laid off by NPR. The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk. I have rarely been as inspired or happy as I was working with the nine other journalists on NPR's Climate Desk, and I feel so very lucky to have helped you--and learned from you.

I'm finding my way forward, because as crushing as journalism can be, it has often given me purpose, joy and friendship. Our desk was a testament to that.

I'm glad she made some friends. Everyone needs friends.

Hopefully they all get the help they need after ingesting too much Al Gore and Greta Thunberg!

They probably don't even know that billions of humans are enjoying life without an impending sense of "planetary gloom."

Papers all over are downsizing their climate teams as the 50-year campaign to use the weather to enact Marxism has failed. 👇

VIDEOS AT LINK....................

You love to see it!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: climatechange; commieshasthesads; defundnpr; defundpbs; democratshasthesads; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; liberaltruth; media; neelabanerjee; npr; ohnoanyway; pbs; weather; wellbye; yourefired

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-62 next last

1 posted on 06/03/2026 5:31:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

I almost posted this.

Amazing what happens when a media outlet has to stand on it’s own 2 feet instead of being subsidized with taxpayer money.


2 posted on 06/03/2026 5:34:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leavebussed )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

They need to close the whole effing network. Why am I still paying for this garbage?


3 posted on 06/03/2026 5:35:23 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: unixfox

“Why am I still paying for this garbage?”

IIRC your not


4 posted on 06/03/2026 5:36:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leavebussed )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

“NPR doesn’t need government money!”

Apparently they do.


5 posted on 06/03/2026 5:38:05 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Heartbreaking. :>)


6 posted on 06/03/2026 5:40:15 AM PDT by boycott
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Since Trump and Congress cut off the money to PBS and NPR, I see on my local PBS station that they are airing re-runs of old programs like Julia Child.

And Julia Child is far more entertaining than the recent political trash that has been aired on PBS.

And I have noticed PBS’s constant begging for donor money.


7 posted on 06/03/2026 5:40:39 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

It’s also amazing that when a highly profitable technology we’re told will change the course of human history (’AI’) shows up, announces it will take all of our energy and water, proceeds to do so, and then ‘Climate Change’ disappears as a ‘thing’.

It’s almost as if the climate change hoax was being promoted by the same people who are becoming ‘AI’ billionaires (and soon, trillionaires)...


8 posted on 06/03/2026 5:42:21 AM PDT by drwoof
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Presbyterian Reporter

They were begging even when the taxpayers were subsidizing them....................


9 posted on 06/03/2026 5:43:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: boycott

10 posted on 06/03/2026 5:44:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Just think of where we might be if all the money spent on climate change had been spent on something real.

MAGA


11 posted on 06/03/2026 5:45:23 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger
"We ... broke news."

Correction: you made up news. Apparently, there was also a lot of koolaid flowing in the office as well.

12 posted on 06/03/2026 5:46:00 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: alancarp

“We ... broke news.”


We’re fixing it!


13 posted on 06/03/2026 5:46:32 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

So NPR went from 100 employees to 50?
It is astonishing that NPR has such influence with so few people.


14 posted on 06/03/2026 5:46:59 AM PDT by Zathras
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Free Republic should volunteer to take over their global warming desk or we’re all gonna die.


15 posted on 06/03/2026 5:48:42 AM PDT by dennisw (Qatarlson the Insufferable blowhard. There is no limit to human stupidity. |||||||||||||||||||||||||)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dennisw

16 posted on 06/03/2026 5:50:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Oh Dear! How will I know when the world is coming to an end now?


17 posted on 06/03/2026 5:56:18 AM PDT by Flint
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger


18 posted on 06/03/2026 5:58:40 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

TELL YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVES TO STOP FUNDING NPR!!!!

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting did not *DIRECTLY* give much money to NPR. Instead, it gave money to largely state-run universities to give to NPR. Now that CPB no longer still reimburses universities for funding NPR, STATE UNIVERSITIES HAVE SIMPLY TAKEN MONEY FOR FUNDING N.P.R. FROM EDUCATIONAL FUNDING!!!!


19 posted on 06/03/2026 5:58:57 AM PDT by dangus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger
And there was much rejoicing
20 posted on 06/03/2026 6:03:20 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminisheRs the human spirit.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-62 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson