Canada cuts environment spending | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Some 776 Environment Canada employees have been told their jobs may be terminated. That's 11 percent of the current staff in a government department that has been a favourite target for budget and staff cuts for the past decade, to the point where it was barely functional, said Duck.

Australia ready to take world lead on climate: Bob Brown | The Australian

GREENS leader Bob Brown says Australia's inflated carbon price will help lift the global price for pollution permits, as he declared Australia was now in a position to take the lead in international climate negotiations.

Study Maps the Relationship Between Cable News and Climate Change Perceptions | Age of Engagement | Big Think

A new study finds that Fox News tends to feature guests who doubt the reality of climate change and stories that dismiss the need for action, while CNN and MSNBC tend to feature guests who assert the reality of climate change and the need for action.  Interestingly, however, Fox tends to devote more attention to the issue than either CNN or MSNBC.

Improving climate change reportage – a must for the media enquiry

Monash media academics, Phillip Chubb and Chris Nash, recently published a research paper on the Friends of the ABC website. It notes the imbalance in the ABC’s coverage of Australian visits by leading climate sceptic, Lord Monckton on the one hand, and renowned climate scientist, Dr James Hansen, on the other.

Identifying a disparity of 47 to five in Monckton’s favour in ABC media appearances, Chubb and Nash also note that Hansen’s visit failed to rate a single mention on ABC TV. Monckton, on the other hand, “received saturation coverage (twice a day) by ABC media and was always treated as an authoritative source until the MediaWatch report at the end of his tour”.