San Francisco Chronicle:

Take a recent sampling of coverage of the heat wave in the Southwest. Two reports in the New York Times didn’t mention climate change. (Another did so in passing as one possible line of inquiry). Reports from ABC News and NBC News conspicuously ignored climate change altogether, as did articles in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

One can forgive the average media consumer for being confused by this disconnect between how the media discusses — correctly — the existential nature of the climate crisis in theory, compared to how they discuss this crisis when it manifests as extreme weather. Each day they open a paper or turn on a TV and see increasingly extreme weather conditions that, more often than not, are presented as entirely random or an act of God — divorced from or incidental to the human political and economic decisions that are actually causing them.