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\nSteve Miller Band cancels tour on fascist xTwitter.
\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u201cBlame it on the [climate crisis worsened extreme] weather\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSteve Miller Band cancels tour on fascist xTwitter.
\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u201cBlame it on the [climate crisis worsened extreme] weather\u201d<\/p>\n
The Steve Miller Band announced yesterday that it has \u201ccancelled all \u2026\u00a0upcoming tour dates\u201d:<\/p>\n
\nThe combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires …<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
That list certainly seems a smorgasbord of climate crisis fossil-fueled extreme weather events.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The band has assessed the danger<\/p>\n
\nrisks for you our audience, the band and crew unacceptable<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The risk assessment: too dangerous.<\/p>\n
And, the band points fingers.<\/p>\n
\nYou can blame it on the weather.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And, well, here we go again: a failure to connect dots, to name names, and shine a spotlight on the climate crisis (and some of its perhaps unforeseen\/considered costs and implications).\u00a0 Did the band fail to go there because of: inability to connect the dots; poor \u2018science communication\u2019; fear (note the posting on climate-science denial xTwitter) of vitriolic backlash; and\/or, concerns about seeming \u201cpolitical\u201d in ways that could hurt this \u201cclassic rock\u201d musician\u2019s\u00a0popularity and sales in the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As to that fan base, consider this classic climate-science denialism<\/a>\u00a0Instagram response to the announcement<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u201cthe weather has been the weather since the existence of Earth. What\u2019s the real reason?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Well, perhaps news reports of climate-changed enhanced\/worsened flooding here, heat waves there, extreme weather everywhere made the travails of touring simply too much for 81-year old Miller.\u00a0 Maybe he just doesn\u2019t want to faint \u2014\u00a0or, well, have crew or audience members \u2014\u00a0fainting in the heat or risk their lives to get to an event through flooded streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
x<\/p>\n
\nCertainly, there have been shows cancelled due to #climate chaos driven extreme weather. <\/p>\n
wgntv.com\/news\/live-ev…<\/p>\n
Sadly, while pointing a combination of extreme weather events that scream \u201cclimate catastrophe\u201d, the #SteveMillerBand cited \u201cweather\u201d as reason for cancellation.<\/p>\n
\u2014 A Siegel (@asiegel.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-07-17T17:14:10.089Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What might be truly newsworthy, btw, here is the cancellation of an entire tour due to the climate crisis even as the band tells us to \u201cblame it on the weather\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Miller Band cancels tour on fascist xTwitter.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u201cBlame it on the [climate crisis worsened extreme] weather\u201d The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-71197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114871268277204608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}