Area giant grownup son Wolf Blitzer seems to have taken a mistaken activate his approach to United Nations local weather talks.

A day after showing in Rome for the top of the G20 summit, the jet-setting CNN anchor introduced his Monday morning information hit “from Edinburgh in Scotland where 20,000 world leaders and delegates have gathered for the COP26 Climate Summit.” There’s only one downside: Edinburgh is the mistaken metropolis, situated roughly 50 miles (81 kilometers) from the place the summit is definitely happening.

Admittedly, it’s not like CNN’s big-name anchors are out doing man-on-the-street interviews. But why Blitzer would arrange store in Edinburgh is past me—he might be in Glasgow sitting down with Greta Thunberg or UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. His tweet asserting his reporting from Edinburgh was, in fact, ratioed like we’re ratioing the environment with carbon dioxide (sorry, nonetheless engaged on my local weather standup routine).

There are maybe just a few the explanation why Wolf is in Edinburgh. Air Force One landed there on Monday morning native time, so maybe they wished the anchor merely wished an opportunity to shout questions at President Joe Biden.

No, that may’t be proper. Blitzer is about up in entrance of Edinburgh Castle, situated removed from town’s airport. The citadel is, nevertheless, probably the most iconic locations in Scotland. Of the nation’s two most important cities, Edinburgh is mostly thought of the extra tourist-friendly and picturesque. Could it’s that CNN merely wished a made-for-TV backdrop to broadcast from? Is it attainable that the stakes of extremely pressing local weather talks set towards more and more dire warnings weren’t sufficient to go up an excellent backdrop alternative?

That will surely observe with company U.S. media, which has lengthy handled local weather as a redheaded stepchild. Just just a few months in the past, CNN bumped local weather scientist Katharine Hayhoe because the Pacific West suffered by a warmth wave like no different in historical past in order that it might speak about Richard Branson’s edge-of-space joyride. Climate change has obtained, at most, just a few hours of protection a 12 months on main information networks. After primarily convincing audiences that the destiny of the planet is just not a subject price protecting, organising Blitzer towards a fairly citadel could be a approach to get of us visually engaged. Which itself is an issue since substance is way more vital than type for principally any subject, however particularly the local weather disaster given the stakes.

Many of Blitzer’s most ardent hecklers had been British journalists, underscoring how foolish U.S. cable information protection of the subject has been. If you need to see what partaking and hard-hitting protection might seem like, take into account the BBC presenter Ros Atkins’ series of incisive segments on the local weather talks that lay out the stakes, greenwashing, and objectives versus actions of main polluters. There’s no citadel backdrop, simply hard-hitting explanatory journalism.

To be truthful, CNN does have reporters contained in the convention heart at Glasgow and a live blog churning out updates. So it’s not like the corporate is completely going for glitz and glam over substance.

That raises one other risk concerning the case of Wolf’s whereabouts. He could be misplaced. So please, Edinburghers, for those who see this bearded man wandering the streets searching for a pint of heat beer or a plate of haggis, I’m begging you to assist him. Maybe you can spare just a few kilos to get him an Uber to the practice station so his handlers in Glasgow can information him to the CNN set there. Or higher but, accompany him to the station so he doesn’t get lost into the Scottish National Gallery or attempt to climb Arthur’s Seat close to sundown. He seems to have a heat coat, which is nice. But I’m unsure he’d final the night time out within the chilly, and we actually do want all media palms on deck to cowl the talks. Ideally, from Glasgow, the place the motion is going on.