Climate Change, Media Coverage and You
Taken together the stories underscore how vital it is that we pressure media and their advertisers to provide significantly more climate coverage. Further, that they must strive to make the coverage factual and accurate by stopping the farce of “providing balance” to the incoherent ideologues who manufacture claims of scientific controversy, except for the purpose of exposing their frauds and corporate funding.
Who Can Deny the World is Warming?
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MODERN DAY CLIMATE CHANGE
All the data you need to show that the world is warming
An article by ClimateProgress.org guest blogger Scott A. Mandia – a compendium of the latest evidence of dangerous climate change, complete with excellent graphics
Watch Ross Gelbspan’s “great and profound” new video at Climate Progress
Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative journalist Ross Gelbspan has a new video out — and is very much interested in your feedback on it. Please click here to get to the ClimateProgress site and post your own comment. There are over 90 comments to read, most of them very useful, some truly inspiring. And Ross is responding personally to many of them. Something important is beginning to happen here, and we may all want to be part of it.
Alert: The Rest of This Year Could Be Much Hotter
NCDC: “Based on preliminary data, the globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the second warmest on record for June, and the January-June year-to-date tied with 2004 as the fifth warmest on record.” The ocean temperature was the warmest on record. In fact, it was a full 0.11°F warmer than the 2005 record. This is almost certainly the new El Niño on top of the long-term warming trend, and that means record temperatures are coming and this will be the hottest decade on record.
True Climate Progress: Great Solutions for Communities, Large and Small
These goals for communities to achieve carbon neutralily are important to national and global well-being, in effect a responsibility of citizenship, and they leave enormous room for innovation and localization.
UN Climate Change Panel’s Fatal Procrastination
The IPCC is currently starting to outline its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) which will be finalized in 2014. We simply don’t have the luxury of waiting another 5 years for the next major assessment of climate science, impacts, and mitigation.
Many prominent climate change scientists’ predictions were wrong
The overly optimistic predictions in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment, released in 2007, appear to have been driven, in part, by the political dynamics involved in the international effort. The underestimation means that government negotiators meeting in Copenhagen later this year to write a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol will have a tougher task than previously imagined.
Is the financial crisis more dire than the climate crisis?
ClimateProgress.org http://climateprogress.org/2008/09/21/is-the-financial-crisis-more-dire-than-the-climate-crisis/ September 21st, 2008 Not even close. If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment. So warned IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri last fall when the IPCC released its major multi-year report synthesizing our understanding [...]
