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Another one of these guys who needs to experience the effects up close and personal. Like the assholes who said waterboarding wasn’t torture- then cried like babies.
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Don’t be silly - he has to have them shoved down his windpipe. /s
Yes. Of course.
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These fires come from climate change, the result of burning fossil fuels. Lobbyists like him have been lying about every part of that for decades. Claiming the end results are fine actually might seem extra sociopathic because of how blatant the danger is, but it’s really just par for the course for them.
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It’s not just the particles; smoke is going to contain carbon monoxide from incomplete combustion, nitrogen oxides through high temperature reactions with the atmosphere, and an exciting range of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons which are terrifyingly carcinogenic even at very low concentrations. Leave this witches’ brew in sunlight for a while and photochemical reactions will create an entirely new cocktail of nasties including ozone.
How does Fox retain a broadcasting license after pumping out such dangerous material? Does it get a special pass because this is in the ‘commentary’ section of their programming - or does no one give a damn?
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Because they don’t have one? They’re cable.
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Milloy joined forces with Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Fred Palmer to create an activist shareholder group called Burn More Coal, established for the purpose of preventing the closure of coal-fired power plants. BMC’s motto includes the phrase, “Coal is Life.”[42])
The coal must flow!
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Ah - is that how regulation works in the US?
Here in the UK, you have to have a licence from the regulator no matter how you broadcast.
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How does that work with YouTube? Or Frozen Food Boy’s latest show on Twitter?
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Not currently considered broadcasters - which is restricted to TV and radio - although the government is trying to push a monster regulatory bill for the Internet through Parliament which would effectively bring all social media under the remit of the broadcasting regulator Ofcom. If it becomes law, social media could be fined massively for dangerous output - just don’t try asking the government how it will work.
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“expert”
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
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i think chenille has it right. and there’s the additional piece: why does fox broadcast it?
i truly believe their goal is to undermine people’s sense of reality: to make everything that’s factually based up for grabs. that makes people cling more tightly to their networks (pun, not pun) of trust.
in general, as people age - they become more reliant on trust, and more vulnerable to that kind of trick ( see also telemarketing, and spam ) - and that’s exactly their target demographic
definitely not a coincidence
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Anyone saying smoke inhalation is harmless could use a punch from a firefighter.
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Note that the folks most likely to be even more compromised are the folks with heart and lung issues. You know, like the ones caused by COVID.
You’d think they’d be able to see they’re telling their base to kill themselves.
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I hope the lobbyist and the people involved in this segment remember it as they struggle to breathe in later years. Or later today. It’d be nice if one side of the political divide wasn’t always advocating for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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It’s not smoke haze, it’s Freedom Fog.
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On the one hand, I’m absolutely outraged that Fox is - once again - actively trying to kill people with its insane misinformation. On the other hand, in this case - unlike with, say, its covid disinformation - it only really impacts Fox viewers, so… /shrugs
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Send Milloy out to clean.
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