Climate Panel Urges ‘Distance” From Reporters - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

Andy Revkin reports at Dot Earth that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, faulted in the past for a siege mentality, has urged its participating researchers to “keep a distance from the media” and send any press questions about their group work to supervisors.

Rocky Mountain Highs | Watts Up With That?

Although a warming signal is not evident over the entire record, there has been a warming since 1900 (which is what NCDC and others advertise as evidence of a warming Colorado). Even if one chooses to ignore the cooling after the warm 1860′s and concentrate on the 20th century, the bulk of the warming of that century occurred in a few years around 1930 – a bit early to be due to CO2.

[Hmm: *Lack* of CO2 swindle will cost $2 billion per year?] | Adelaide Now

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard's refusal to set a carbon price will cost households an extra $2 billion a year in even higher electricity prices, a major report by top economists and power companies says.

Flashback: Trees Lost to Katrina May Present Climate Challenge : NPR

In fact, trees killed by Katrina will release about as much global warming pollution into the air as all the trees across the nation soak in over the course of one year, according to a study by Jeff Chambers, a Tulane University biology professor.

High-design website offers up climate elitism | MNN - Mother Nature Network

I was just privy to a crazy debate in L.A. hosted by Andy Samberg in which I gained a greater understanding of the wonderfully perverse logic used by right-wing communication experts in framing the issue of climate change and misinforming the public on what is, no doubt, the single most important issue facing the human race in the 21st century.

So, IDEO people if you are reading this, a few clues.. a huge percentage of Americans think:

* climate change was invented by liberal elites
* it's all about white affluent people feeling pious about their high-design consumerism
* their motive is turn America into a socialist nation

Given the success of this framing, any future web projects around climate change should, I suggest, tackle these misconceptions head on.