CNN Warns of ‘Planet-Cooking Pollution’ During 2021 Climate Review

All throughout Sunday and Monday, CNN featured several top 10 year-in-reviews to recap the year’s biggest stories.

Climate correspondent Bill Weir was responsible for the climate edition as he warned that the world is “close to a point of no return” when it comes to the “code red for humanity” of “planet-cooking pollution.”

Weir kicked off his top 10 in Greenland, declaring that scientists…

“believe that this is the birthplace of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. But now scientists are really worried this place could help sink Miami and Boston and Bangkok and Shanghai because just this part of Greenland has enough ice that if it all melts, will raise sea levels by two feet.”

Next, Weir included “that icy surprise in Texas which illustrated how the climate crisis can run hot and cold with wind chills below zero on the Rio Grande. Nearly 10 million lost power. The February blast became America’s costliest winter storm event ever. ”

Despite the historic nature of that storm, some in the media still found a way to blame Republicans.

Various floods took the eighth spot on Weir’s list, but at number seven, “the U.S. rejoins the Paris Climate Accord hours after Joe Biden became president. But pledging to slash planet-cooking pollution by half this decade is one thing, convincing Congress to take bold action is another.”

Weir kept the hyperbole up on for number six, “a code red for humanity as scientists around the world issue their most dire warning to date. The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it’s unequivocal that human activity has cranked up the global thermostat by over two degrees Fahrenheit and that we are careening dangerously close to a point of no return.”

This year also gave various CNN personalities an excuse to see all the cool medieval castles in Scotland while covering COP26, which was number five on his list.

Not seeing the irony, Weir lamented, “For the first time in 26 meetings, the world’s delegates agree that fossil fuels are driving the climate crisis. But not a single country committed to stopping oil or coal production any time soon.”

Hurricane Ida and recent tornados came in at four and three, respectively. At number two was another historic event that the media claimed could’ve been avoided, if only politicians cared was the Pacific Northwest heat dome and at number one, “America’s megadrought.”

Weir concluded by declaring: “The feds declared the first-ever shortage of the Colorado River, which is a source of life for over 40 million Americans. Meantime, smoke from western wildfires reached the East Coast this year from one to ten, it is all connected. And without dramatic changes, on a global scale, scientists warn us the worst is yet to come.”

Of course, people like Weir never seek to see if previous gloomy predictions come true, but they do give Weir a reason to take a nice field trip to Greenland.

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