Fabulous headline: "Warming In Yosemite Sends Small Mammals Running For The Hills" - Science - redOrbit

Climate change and press freedom - CPJ Blog - Committee to Protect Journalists

Last weekend I participated in a conference in Venice, Italy, on climate change and the press. The meeting was hosted by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev under the auspices on the World Political Forum, an organization Gorbachev founded in 2003 to foster discussion on "crucial problems that affect humankind."

The premise of this particular meeting, which brought together politicians, policy-makers, scientists and journalists, is that the media must do more to alert the world to the threat posed by climate change and mobilize action. The mood was bleak and dire. Speaker after speaker stressed that the pace of global warming appears to exceed even the most alarming predictions and the window for action may be closing. Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis, the situation may be even graver. It is difficult to imagine a scenario in which the world comes together in the short tem to take action.