View larger image Climatologist Michael E. Mann might be forgiven for having wondered if yet another book on global climate change was warranted. Whether yet another global warming book could make a significant contribution to the field, could be different from the many – and many of them excellent – that preceded it.
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Dire Predictions: Unique, and Uniquely Illustrated Addition to Climate Science Communications
View larger image Climatologist Michael E. Mann might be forgiven for having wondered if yet another book on global climate change was warranted. Whether yet another global warming book could make a significant contribution to the field, could be different from the many – and many of them excellent – that preceded it.
Posted inPolicy & Politics
Fossil Fuel P.R./Ad Campaigns Reaching Crescendo in Election Season
On May 13, the date of West Virginia’s presidential primary, CNN launched what the progressive group, Think Progress, called a “coal fest”. “ISSUE #1: MAKING GAS FROM COAL: REDUCING DEPENDENCE ON OIL” flashed across the television screen as senior business correspondent Ali Velshi expounded on the prospect of converting coal into liquid fuel. “The advantage […]
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2008 Grantham Prize ‘Special Merit’ Winner: Reporter, Photographer Ed Struzik
For 28 years, Canadian writer Ed Struzik has skied, dogsledded, snowmobiled, helicoptered, canoed, and ridden icebreakers as part of his writings about the Arctic. Since long before most journalists paid the northern territories much heed, Struzik has covered the change brewing in these empty lands as his beat. This summer, Struzik’s experience, contacts, and talent […]
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Kyoto Accord Compliance Markets: Can Emission Trading Offsets Work? (Pt.1 of 2)
The global market for carbon reductions is growing rapidly, having doubled in value in the last year alone to more than $64 billion. The European Union Emissions Trading System (EUETS) comprises most of the market, with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and other various offset markets valued at almost $14 billion. These latter offset markets […]
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U.K. Watch Dog Office Gives Slap of Wrist To 2007 ‘Swindle’ Global Warming Program
Great Britain’s official broadcasting watchdog agency administered a sanction, what amounts to a slap on the wrist, for a controversial March 2007 “Great Global Warming Swindle” TV program for which critics wanted a much grander pound of flesh.
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Global Warming and 2008 Extreme Weather? Newsweek’s Begley Answers ‘TRUE’ on a Link
There was really no mistaking the July 7/14, 2008, Newsweek as intending to be something special: Forget that the label promoted it as a “Summer Double Issue.” That’s not the point. The “Lincoln vs. Darwin” cover illustration, with the “Who Matters More?” come-on was one part of the hint, but bigger still was the (mostly) […]
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New EPA Report Offers Journalists a Tool On Climate Change/’Hyperlocalism’ Front
Even before newspapers recently embraced “hyper-localism” as a strategy for stemming circulation and advertising losses, it’s a safe bet that editors commonly asked environmental reporters what climate change might mean in their own neck of the woods.
Posted inClimate Science, Policy & Politics
EPA I.G. Report Finds Scant Hope For Volunteer GHG Control Efforts
A July report from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General finds “limited potential” in voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction programs. The report most likely puts just one more nail in the coffin of volunteer GHG efforts that have been a mainstay of the Bush administration EPA but which are pretty much guaranteed to […]
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Physics Society Restates Position After Blog-Driven ‘Kerfuffle’ Erupts
A recent “kerfuffle,” as a headline writer for FOXNews.com termed it, once again underscored the influence of the blogosphere’s echo chamber – and just how quickly it can spread bad information. The American Physical Society, APS, last month saw fit to “reaffirm” its official position on climate change after a flurry of online reports and […]
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Parsing Opinion Polls … and Politics … In Covering Offshore Drilling Campaign Issue
Opinion polls are fueling politicians and candidates to push for more U.S. offshore oil drilling, with the media looking on intently. Since the issue became a political focal point in May and June, polling has been relentless: Zogby. Rasmussen. Field. Gallup. Quinnipiac. CNN. Bloomberg. The list goes on. All point to an increasing public desire […]
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PEJ Newspapers Content Analysis: Science Coverage Seen Declining
Some of the beats most likely to provide the best platforms for newspaper coverage of climate change are doing worse than other news categories in the increasingly competitive newsroom – garnering less space as newspapers continue grappling with endemic economic woes.