Friday, October 31, 2025

The White House Effect: new doc on Netflix exposing EcoImperialism of George Bush Skull and Bones-CIA drug smuggling

 Exploring the dramatic origin story of the climate crisis and how a political battle in the George H.W. Bush administration changed the course of history.  Trailer

 “The White House Effect” an infuriating portrait of how inaction has potentially doomed humanity. 

https://www.thewhitehouseeffect.com/ 

As Hurricane Melissa raced toward Jamaica on Monday, CBS News senior coordinating producer Tracy Wholf sent an email to the newsroom, detailing the historic storm’s scientific connection to climate change.

In the message obtained by HEATED, Wholf explained how an overly-hot Atlantic Ocean supercharged Melissa, fueling its rapid 70-mph intensification in a single day, boosting winds by about 10 mph, and turning what might have been a category 4 storm into a category 5. Wholf suggested a simple sentence CBS News reporters could use in storm-related stories to make the connection.

Wholf usually sent emails like this in the wake of deadly extreme weather events, two CBS News staffers told HEATED. But it was the first such email Wholf had sent under the company’s new pro-Trump billionaire chief executive David Ellison, and its new anti-“woke” editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.



A screenshot of the email Tracy Wholf sent to CBS News staffers on Monday, two days before she was laid off.

It was also the last. Two days later, as Hurricane Melissa smashed into the Caribbean, Wholf was laid off, along with the majority of the five person team supporting CBS News’s climate coverage.

 

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