Online Public Relations Thoughts

 Just business -- or so they say.

This is criminal.  With millions around the earth starving and facing death, to destroy food that could keep them alive is beyond shameful.  The Trump administration has burned America's reputation to the ground.

Many smaller PBS/NPR stations are facing their mortality with this senate vote.  It will be a blow to free speech and not-for-profit news gathering, not to mention educational TV.  

The Trump Administration is at it again.  It is hiding legally mandated climate reports from the public.  Trump has called climate change a hoax and has already backtracked on numerous activities to combat it.  Apparently by hiding the reports it spares him from answering embarrassing questions about increasingly violent weather. What citizens don't know won't hurt them.  Transparency be damned.  This is yet another coverup by an authoritarian government, which will do real harm.  It's shameful and infuriating.  

 This is a phony, blatantly outrageous excuse for slamming Canada with a 35% tariff. Trump is going out of his way to wreck foreign relations.   All in pursuit of illusory power...

How do you convince people of climate change and the extreme weather events that come with it?  This is the communications challenge faced by weather services.  It's not going to be easy.  People live in a bubble.  They think it can't happen to me until it does.  What is needed is a new behavior of climate awareness and what can happen whether fires or floods and preparation for both.  We're nowhere near that goal.