Huffington Says Internet Changes How People Relate to News - Encino, CA Patch

There is a huge need for fact-checking on the internet--Huffington said she hopes for new tools that quickly sort truth from fiction--online news sites are less likely to be prisoners of a traditional media mentality that declares that truth invariably lies at the midpoint of conflicting opinions.

"That's not true of global warming," she said. "The truth is sometimes on one side or the other."

Inconvenient Youth convenes to deal with climate change | The Jakarta Post

On the first evening of the summit, Al Gore gave a speech on the General Reception. He said that Indonesia had the potential to become a superpower of geothermal electricity.
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Later on that day Mr. Gore communicated even more about the impacts of climate change. Some of them would be the continuation of frequent storms, which have been occuring over the last 5 years, the extinction of some species, and also more new diseases will be discovered.

Bill McKibben: Climate Change Is Our Most Urgent Challenge | The Nation

Bill McKibben, author and founder of the international environmental organization 350.org, says that without a global campaign to curb climate change, the ecological devastation of our warming climate will make our planet uninhabitable.
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It’s a “crisis breaking over our heads at this moment,” he says as he points to wildfires in Russia and flooding in Pakistan as examples of the severe weather that will continue, and intensify, if we continue to ignore climate change. Failing to rein in the carbon in our atmosphere will mean more than just inhospitable weather. It also threatens global food production: “If we allow the temperature to increase anything like what people are projecting, we’ll see grain yields fall by a third or more, simply because it will be too hot for things to grow,” he says. “If it rains every day in a row for 30 days, you’re out of luck, you are not growing anything. That’s the kind of world we are building.”