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GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Supported
O'Brien: Nearly 60% of US TV meteorologists denied climate change recently
“For a very long time in our country, TV meteorologists were Outright denialists when it came to climate change. 50 plus, I, it was close to 60% just a few years ago.”
Miles O'Brien Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 28:33 Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Not checkable as stated
O'Brien: Reaching net-zero by 2050 requires zero new technological breakthroughs
“No technological breakthroughs required.”
Miles O'Brien Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 1:39 Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Supported
O'Brien: New York building fossil fuel bans include commercial kitchen carve-outs
“You know, you go to New York, for example, which has all the local laws which are aimed at, you Burning of fossil fuels inside buildings over the next over the coming years. But there's a carve-out for commercial kitchens. The restaurant industry, the lobby, h…”
Miles O'Brien Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 7:34 Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Supported
O'Brien: Broadcast networks lack dedicated science reporters except PBS NewsHour
“The broadcast networks except for the PBS NewsHour, frankly, Don't have dedicated science reporters anymore. They have health, you know, health and medicine.”
Miles O'Brien Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 24:15 Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
O'Brien: Climate solutions exist, but public awareness remains the primary crisis
“Well, we are in a solutions crisis as well as a climate crisis, and the solutions are there, but the crisis is that people don't know about them.”
Miles O'Brien Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 0:57 Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Supported
O'Brien: Commercial induction cooking drastically cuts costly exhaust hood needs
“You know, these vent hoods that you see in these commercial kitchens, these are hundreds of thousands of dollars, and you have to have a certain amount of throughput to be safe around all that fire. And when you have induction, you need much less exhaust capab…”
Miles O'Brien Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 11:48 Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Not checkable as stated
O'Brien: Induction cooktops take 30 seconds to clean versus 20-30 minutes for broilers
“It takes you know, if you're really good, it takes 20:30 minutes to clean a commercial broiler top. After a night of cooking, because all the stuff gets, you know, baked on, and there are all kinds of chemical solvents that they have to use. Huge expense there…”
Miles O'Brien Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 12:06 Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
O'Brien: Political 'both sides' framing makes climate reporting wildly inaccurate
“Covering science and particularly the climate through the prism of a political reporting, which is, you know, well, if you get the Republican, you gotta get the Democrat, and on the one hand, on the other hand, kind of stuff, that that kind of reporting ultima…”
Miles O'Brien Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 19:59 Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
O'Brien: CNN laid off its entire eight-person science team in 2008
“When I was at CNN up until the day we all got our pink slip in 2008, there were eight of us who are devoted to science and covering science and trying to push that kind of coverage on the air.”
Miles O'Brien Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 24:35 Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Supported
O'Brien: Chatham University's Eden Hall is a self-sustaining ecosystem
“It's a completely sustainable campus. It has, you know, lots of solar, has geothermal, they grow their own food, they raise their own fish. It's almost entirely its own little ecosystem.”
Miles O'Brien Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 2:32 Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
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