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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.”
O'Brien: Reaching net-zero by 2050 requires zero new technological breakthroughs
“No technological breakthroughs required.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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…”