100 DAYS OVER 100 DEGREES: Climate CATASTROPHE With Arctic Heatwave, Extreme Drought | Kyle Kulinski
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“The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers — loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.
“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”
The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on YouTube. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.
“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”
But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news — the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.
It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.
“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”
With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on YouTube, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do — even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.
While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.
But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks — who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago — the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.
Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king — the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.
I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”
And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”
Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”
It’s probably for the best — the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all — class issues,” he said on a recent episode.
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Haven't climate scientists said we're already past the point that we could have done anything to prevent run-away climate change? To curb greenhouse gasses, the damage is pretty much done. It's pretty obvious, the climate is warming faster than anticipated, because of environmental policies being rolled back. Our only chance is to slow it down enough to come up with something to lower the amount of CO2 before we're all screwed.
Except for the Fox news and weirdo conservatives, the academic or original conservatives do believe in climate change. In universities, they use the cost benefit analysis that shows it is not financially useful to do anything about climate change.
Thank you, Kyle, for covering this climate story and for covering it well.
There seems to be a kind of unspoken consensus on the political left that defeating Trump and/or stopping the genocide in Gaza are so urgent that we need to focus on those 2 things first and then get back to pressuring politicians to seriously address climate change.
But Big Oil and its allies aren’t taking a break; they’re pushing to get their planet-killing agenda enacted. So we can’t take a break either. We need to fight Trump and Zionism and climate change simultaneously.
Please join a grassroots climate group near you today!
(Not a “big green” group, a grassroots activist group – big difference.)
Yeah yeah Yeah Climate Change, but have you heard the latest Trump news?Trump!Trump!Trump!Trump! So shut up about democrat weaknesses.
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The IPCC actually predicted that hurricanes wouldnt get more frequent, and could in fact get less frequent many years ago. It wasnt the highest certainty of predictions, but its in their reports. They are also predicted to hit harder when they do appear, primarily, and this is empirically verified already to some extent, through bringing in vast amounts more water than they used to.
I have a feeling in 25 years we will look at cars like people suddenly looked at cigarettes in the 80s. A good friend of mine has worked all his life in environmental organizations, but even he drove a fossil fuel car until recently. We are our cars, like cyborgs we can’t picture parting with them, and make up excuses to continue. See you again in 25 years.
It’s not hyperbole to state that the southwestern part of the US will become uninhabitable within the next several decades. Think Australia: much of the landmass isn’t viable for civilization, so the vast majority of the population accumulates around the cooler coasts.
Are you gonna cover Jill Stein liking Instagram comments that tell her supporters to vote for Trump in swing states?
Try having a decade-long drought and then we'll talk.
Remember, Yanks: Slip on a shirt, Slop on sunscreen, Slap on a hat, Seek shade, and Slide on sunglasses. You'll lessen the odds of getting skin cancer by listening to Sid the Seagull.
We are the frog in boiling water.
Northern Ontario – heat is NUTS!
We got snow yesterday – it made the news.
Frost-advisory tonight… However, later this week? Freakin' 29C/84F
==> it's almost autumn that temp used to be our summer high.
This year we hit the 40s.
The fact that nobody takes climate change seriously drives me insane. As an earth science (technically Geography) major, I’m versed in how the planet functions and humans are doing a great job of ruining the place. Anybody who denies climate change is happening is either lying, ignorant, or stupid.
"Climate change" is actually made up by World Economic Forum. You should do the research before you report it to people. You are part of the problem.
Seriously people need to open up a book
In my country Sweden we have broken every heat record we have this year. This is moving way faster than we thought and we are truly fukked
And no fracking ban
People with filthy rich money will prevail
We are screwed. They wonder why this generation does not want kids. The humans have destroyed the world
Many delivery drivers in Phoenix do not have air conditioning in their trucks because their employers decided it was more important to spend money on cameras in the trucks than air conditioning!
Coca-Cola drain, ground water in Africa to make a drink. Is there any more needed to be said?
Weather Networks can't even accurately predict tomorrows weather, but sure, the world is headed to catastrophe
You don't have to appeal to some hypothetical post apocalyptic doom scenario to advocate for humans making changes in their life, this actually has the opposite effect and pushes people away because the sheer ridiculous of it all, it actually reminds me a lot of D.A.R.E
Thank you for covering this. Climate change is getting ignored and it doesn't generate the most clicks for you, but thank you for doing what is right.
The Atlantic conveyor (aka the Gulf stream) is threatened because the Greenland ice sheet is melting, diluting the ocean and causing the life cycle of the Atlantic conveyor to be disrupted.
, they just keep on screwing us over to make more money than they could ever hope to spend in a dozen lifetimes…
Should it stop (and this is a very real risk), then there will be icebergs in the English channel and the UK climate will collapse, taking our crop yields with it, because that vast current keeps the UK warmer than it otherwise would be.
This is a world wide problem that has been known about for over a century, but successive governments have kicked the can down the road and now it is finally happening the powers that be just ignore it and keep on increasing the use of fossil fuels, because they are owned by the top 11% who don't give a
You think 650 deaths is a big deal… Wait until there's a power outage during this kind of heat-wave. It will be tens of thousands dead.
have a look to daniel schmachtenberger work. or nate hagens work. there is a lot more to say than the simplistic democrats/reps propanganda. democracy is a bottom-up system, they are not elected to make life harder, so neither will ever do anything significant. they ll wash greener than green, but that is still largely insufficient because it wont tackle the problem at it source.
Camping in pinyon juniper forest in Nevada at tre moment. Forests throughout the West are on fire right now. And so much of our Western forests have died from drought and disease and insects in the last twenty years. We have passed a tipping point in these forests, and many of our forests are dying and burning off
Oh no it’s almost as if we are still coming out of the ice age… kind of like spring time.
Expect it to only get worse.
We will come into another ice age, but we won’t be around for it.
Also if all these rich and ‘smart people are saying the coasts are going to be over taken by the ocean.. wtf are they buying beach front properties.
Like, not that smart if you ask me
What will happen if the ocean currents stop? Who knows, but at the very least, marine life will be heavily disrupted. And also it’s highly likely that the warm water from the gulf that flows to Europe will stop and that will cause Europe to get really cold. Similar climates in Europe compared to the US are located much further north than they are in the US and the Gulf Stream is a big reason as to why.
The technical term is "we're fucked"
IN WA State . In Western Wa we didn't have a 100 degree day this year ? The Norm would be at least 2-5 Days of 100 degree weather . I think there is a different explanation that a Political Buzzword of Climate change. So let's ask questions and get real data. When the The earth's rotation around the sun is in a cycle where is closest to the sun "milankovitch cycles" . this cycle is every 100,000 years . When this happens the North Pole will be Iceless. SO STOP saying its the Middle Class ? When the Top 3% of the world has a 800% bigger carbon footprint Than the Rest of us . Your Propaganda is fear mongering . We should take Kyle off the Internet to lower emissions to save the Planet. ?