MSNBC’s Tur Touts Climate as ‘Positive Consequence of the Pandemic’

newsbusters.org ^ | 5/21/2020 | Kyle Drennen

[rktman]

On Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur touted the “drop in pollution”as a “positive consequence of the pandemic” that has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world and left tens of millions unemployed. Talking to Penn State University professor and climate activist Michael Mann, she hoped Americans would seize on this “unique” “opportunity” to “change our habits.”

Late in the 2:00 p.m. ET hour, Tur proclaimed: “An unexpected yet positive consequence of the pandemic has been a drop in pollution, specifically carbon pollution, which fell 17% worldwide at the peak of the global stay-at-home orders. That’s mostly the result of fewer vehicles on the road, but also fewer planes in the sky and factories being closed as well.”

However, she then warned: “My next guest argues that that is, though, a drop in the bucket when it comes to what is needed to address climate change.”

After introducing Mann, she marveled: “I’m sure everybody online saw those images of a smog-free Los Angeles almost looking like a painting, it was so clear. And wow, oh, my God, if we all stopped getting on the road, then this is what the air could look like...”

Mann hailed the development: “When you slow the economy, you reduce transportation...you decrease carbon emissions. Because right now we have a global economy that is driven by the burning of fossil fuels. And as long as that’s true, when you reduce economic output, you’re going to reduce carbon emissions.”

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

If we would just stop driving cars and trucks the atmosphere would be cleaner, we would save lives and possibly save the planet. We could all starve in place.

[granite]

I imagine that most of the 3rd world will revert to the less expensive (more emissions) manufacturing processes and move back to coal as well. The future economic outlook will dictate the new priorities.

[KarlInOhio]

If quarantine can do that, just imagine how much better everything would be with a worldwide genocide. Knock off about 7 billion people to get down to the 500 million prescribed by the Georgia Guidestones. < /sarcasm for me, social plans for the left>

[shanover]

Yup,it’s the lefty talking point of blame Capitalism. The left is riding this Corona for all it is worth. It has even put its tentacles into millions who are normally on the Conservative side including Freepland.