JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, could you talk about the reaction that you got and the emails and the people - threats, people showing up at your house?ĬHRIS GLONINGER: Juan, you know, it caught me off guard. And you would think, being at the mercy of Mother Nature, that a lot more people would care about the climate crisis.
Eleven percent of the GDP is agriculture-based. Farmers get a good amount of money for land leases for those wind turbines. Iowa is powered 65% by wind, right? So, that is true renewable energy independence. And it was a big leap of faith, going from Boston, where it tended to be a preaching to the choir, right into the lion’s den.Īnd when you heard me connecting the dots, it wasn’t anything outrageous. And station management saw that need, as well, and I commend them for bringing me on board to do that. We truly made the move because I thought I could fill a void, a void where no one was talking about climate change. My wife and I have no connection to Iowa, no family, no friends there, going into the move. But then, why did you go to Iowa, which is so important even in determining the president of the United States, but to be the chief meteorologist? And what happened to you when you started your reports?ĬHRIS GLONINGER: Amy, as cheesy as this sounds, we wanted to make a difference.
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You started the country’s first weekly series on climate change when you were in Boston. So, Chris, take us back to the beginning. He has resigned his job as KCCI-TV chief meteorologist in Des Moines, Iowa, and started a new position as a senior climate scientist at the Woods Hole Group.
Big signals, concerning trends.ĪMY GOODMAN: So, for more, we’re joined now from Falmouth, Massachusetts, by Chris Gloninger. And at this point, already an 89 - 89% chance that 2023 will be not just a top 10, but a top five warmest on record. And if we look back at the month of May, globally, it was the third warmest on record, the warmest ocean water temperatures that we have seen on record. This is a clip from one of his recent broadcasts for KCCI-TV in which he connected the dots between the Canadian wildfires and the climate crisis.ĬHRIS GLONINGER: As the planet warms, a lot of these fires are gaining steam and seeing explosive growth because of the warming planet, and we are paying the price in the form of poor air quality across the state. I’m just reinventing myself, finding ways that I can make a bigger difference with climate change - more important than ever as the Earth recorded three of its warmest days, now four of its warmest days, this week.ĪMY GOODMAN: That was Chris Gloninger Friday. And I can’t thank KCCI enough for the opportunity to become chief meteorologist.
This is how Chris Gloninger, chief meteorologist for the CBS affiliate KCCI-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, signed off Friday after his final broadcast.ĬHRIS GLONINGER: I’m walking away from a career, an 18-year career in television, that I dreamed of since second grade.
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I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González, as we end today’s show with a TV meteorologist in Iowa who resigned his job after receiving a series of death threats and harassing messages over his coverage of the climate crisis.
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