Catfight: Alarmist Andy Revkin isn't alarmist enough for alarmist William Connolley
I'm not sure when I'll lose the will to live but Andy Revkin joins the ranks of those still defending the indefensible media coverageAmazongate: At last we reach the source - Telegraph
...it focuses attention once more on a bizarre scheme, backed by the UN and promoted by the World Bank, whereby the WWF has been hoping to share in profits estimated at $60 billion, paid for by firms all over the developed world.Giving the IPCC a Pass on Errors of Omission, and Errors of Willful Omission: | Watts Up With That?
...ignoring one side of the cost-benefit equation (but not the other) is an invitation to be visited by unintended consequences.ABC News Watch: Missing News: Nothing "unprecedented" in melting ice
...a recent article titled "Reduced ice extent on the western Antarctic Peninsula at 700-970 cal. yr B.P." published in the prestigious journal "Geology" reports that melting ice in the Antarctic, particularly in the West Antarctica peninsula, is not unprecedented at all, but is quite a common natural occurrence happening regardless of human influence.When seemingly intelligent people say STUPID things « An Honest Climate Debate
That’s right bureaucrats from the White house, sitting in their fossil fuelled air conditioned offices, driving around in their fossil fuelled cars, flying around in their fossil fuelled jets wanted to deny South Africa a loan to build a coal fired plant!The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media » Environmental Reporters Receiving Training,To Cover Climate Change in Developing World
I was sure that my colleague would be able to see the sheer madness of it all, but instead my colleague turned to me and said that Africa shouldn’t get funding for a coal plant and that instead the West should fund solar power for Africa.
Now this colleague of mine is no dummy, in fact this colleague of mine has a Science degree. This is a person with a science degree saying Africa should be powered by solar. Has the world gone totally INSANE?
Do these people really think that they will save the polar bears by getting the West to fund solar panels made in China by fossil fuelled factories and exported to South Africa on fossil fuelled ships so that they can put $10,000 solar panels on mud huts??? Are you SERIOUS???
Change is afoot in the number of international journalists in developing countries reporting on global climate change.
With a yearly budget of $1 million, the Earth Journalism Network, EJN, has become a leader among nonprofit organizations actively building networks of environmental journalists and communicators in the poorest of nations. In the past five years, the group has trained 1,000 journalists who have produced some 2,000 stories on the environment.
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For the last three years, the Climate Change Media Partnership has sent 114 journalists to the UN Climate talks. Another 40 international journalists are to be selected to attend COP16, in Cancun, Mexico, this December. About 600 journalists apply for the fellowship annually.
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