Fran O'Sullivan: Greenpeace fills gap with celebrity spin - Entertainment - NZ Herald News

The greenhouse campaign is sophisticated, which is hardly surprising given Greenpeace's own deep financial coffers and that of its business allies. Its website is plastered with shots of the "high-profile New Zealanders" who have already signed on - telling those who join up they will be in "good company".

Most are celebrities. Like the fetching - if rather scantily dressed Castle-Hughes - who has been filmed traipsing around the Pacific Islands and has since written to Prime Minster John Key urging him to listen to our Pacific neighbours' voices telling countries like New Zealand "to please reduce their greenhouse emissions by at least 40 per cent by 2020".
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The Sign On campaign is not shy of distorting the facts.

India’s Lesson on Climate-Change - WSJ.com

Call it a more honest form of environmentalism. The Indian government recognizes the public would never be willing to shoulder the costs of emissions controls, and that it’s unfair to ask millions of poor people to try. Mr. Bush understood that the developed world can best help developing countries green themselves up by supporting freer trade in environmentally friendly technologies. It’s a stark contrast to climate politics in today’s Washington, where Democrats try to push cap-and-trade through Congress before anyone notices the costs while special interests slip in protectionist carbon tariffs.

There is still serious scientific debate about the causes, effects and possible solutions for climate change. But if President Obama is determined to tackle the issue anyway, he could do worse than listen to what Mr. Ramesh said.

The Reference Frame: Globe's warmest days in a decade

If very low-frequency signals were completely dominating the evolution of temperatures, the probability that the latest summer has the hottest day would gradually approach 50%: the same chances of quasi-uniform cooling and warming. If the annual temperature step were completely dominated by an underlying warming trend, the odds would approach 100%, of course.

Jennifer Marohasy » New York Times Changes Storyline on Climate Change

Could the mainstream media slowly change its reporting overtime on this issue to narrow what has been an increasing gap between perception and reality when it comes to climate change?

We know that the mainstream news is expected to fit together like a picture, some have suggested a tapestry, and that what is reported tomorrow is expected to accord with what was reported yesterday. But how long before the tapestry could take on a less dramatic and more complex hue when it comes to this issue?