Leslie Berliant weighs in - Desmogblog | Partisanship and Disinformation Surrounding Global Warming Taking their Toll

Finally, and perhaps most impacting, there is the money being poured into creating a so-called debate over whether climate change is real, human caused and dangerous.

Leslie Berliant

Leslie Berliant writes on the topics of sustainability, the climate crisis, environmental health and corporate social responsibility for publications that include the LOHAS Journal, Sustainablog, Celsias, Personal News Network, the Santa Monica Mirror and others. She is a partner at BLU MOON Group, a marketing and communications company that specializes in cause and advocacy campaigns. She is a published poet with works featured in the anthologies Deliver Me and Big City Mantra, as well as the literary magazine Mo+Th.

The Day - Climate change [hoax] summit aiming to prompt action at local level | News from southeastern Connecticut

New Haven - Representatives of about 50 cities and towns gathered at Yale University Saturday to receive encouragement, advice and support for local efforts to respond to the effects of climate change in their communities.
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Sponsored by the Governor's Steering Committee on Climate Change, the DEP, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the event drew professional municipal planners, elected officials and volunteers who sit on boards and agencies working on climate-change issues. Among eastern Connecticut towns in attendance were Canterbury, Essex, Westbrook, East Haddam, Norwich and Groton, which has a climate-change task force state officials hope will be a model for other communities. Zell Steever, chairman of the Groton task force, gave a presentation on the task force's work thus far during one of the workshop sessions.

The task force has been meeting for the past year, and last month received a $198,000 grant it will use to accomplish three goals, Steever said. It will assess all town buildings' energy use; calculate the carbon footprint of the entire town; develop an action plan to help the town adapt to climate change effects; and retrofit the library and one school building to be energy efficient as an educational tool for the community.

[I guess carbon dioxide really DOES drown dogs and make bunnies cry]: Climate change adverts draw mild rebuke from advertising watchdog | Science | guardian.co.uk

The environment secretary, Ed Miliband, said the authority had "comprehensively vindicated" the accuracy of the department's TV advert and had rebuffed those who attempted to use the advertising standards process to question the reality of man-made climate change.