Just as I was sinking into despair about the lack of Journalistic integrity in climate reporting, I stumbled on a TV Meteorologist in a major market unabashedly explaining climate change impacts.
Marina Jurica is Meteorologist at KCAL CBS Los Angeles.
Marina Jurica joined CBS News Los Angeles in September 2023 after spending four years with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. She worked on many Earth missions there including SWOT, Sentinel-6, NISAR, ICE-SAT2, and the landing of the Perseverance Mars rover. Previously she worked for 20 years as an Emmy award winning meteorologist in the most dynamic weather markets across the country including Minneapolis, MN, Cincinnati, OH, Orlando, FL, Lexington, KY and Fresno, CA as the first female Chief Meteorologist.
Marina did her undergraduate and graduate studies in atmospheric science and music performance at UCLA and Mississippi State University and is currently getting her PhD in climate science. She is studying the atmospheric effects on melting glaciers from above and below in places across the world like Greenland and Alaska and how we can adapt to these changes globally. She is very passionate about our changing climate and looks forward to bringing you up close and personal stories about our changing Earth and how space technology is helping us change with it.
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Marina, to be fair, is not alone – Jeff Berardelli at WFLA in Tampa, and Amber Sullins at ABC 15 in Phoenix come to mind as shining examples doing the right thing – but major networks still fall abysmally short of helping the wider public make an accurate assessment of current events.
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I’m sure corporate greed has nothing to do with the high grocery prices. Nothing at all. Or with the high prices of everything else.
Grocery store margins are notoriously thin.
While corporate greed drives a lot of problems (low wages, for one), they don’t control the field, farm and crop reports that show the impacts of more extreme weather events.
Another problem is that too many people don’t understand what inflation is: When the prices stop rising due to inflation, they just stay at that level. This is different from a short-term increase in the price of eggs due to chicken disease. And for old folks like myself, we sometimes can’t shake the memory of a lifetime of grocery bills well below the $200 line.