424: Kid Politics | This American Life

Act Two. Climate Changes. People Don't.
As adults battle over how climate change should be taught in school, we try an experiment. We ask Dr Roberta Johnson, the Executive Director of the National Earth Science Teachers Association, who helps develop curricula on climate change, to present the best evidence there is to a high school skeptic, a freshman named Erin Gustafson. Our question: Will Erin find any of it convincing? (14 minutes)  [Around the 33:50 mark, the narrator claims that Johnson said that in the 12th century, "it was nowhere near as warm as today"]

MinnPost - Don Shelby: Climate B.S. of the Year Awards: And the winners are...

Even climate contrarians know the planet is warming. The latest review of climate scientists’ published and peer reviewed papers show that 98 percent are convinced by the evidence that humans are causing the planet to warm. Two percent believe it is warming, but disagree on whether it will be as bad as he models suggest.
Before he was let go from Fox News Network, Glenn Beck told his audience over and over again that there had been no warming of the planet in the past 10 years, when global temperatures over the decade have been the warmest in a thousand years. Beck was just B.S.ing.
Third place
Three scientists were given third place. Roy Spencer, Danny Brasswell and John Christy. Christy was singled out for having tried to B.S. the United States Congress with bad science.

Down, But Not Out? : CJR

What’s seems indisputable is that, when it comes to the amount climate coverage overall, all signs point down. “I should note that I completely agree that, in general, there’s been a major decrease in climate policy coverage in the MSM,” Braun wrote in one of his e-mails. “In 2007, I certainly would not have guessed this!”
Indeed, few would have, and the fact that the decrease is evident even at E&E, where it can’t be chalked up to editors and reporters who don’t know or don’t care much about the story, is worrisome. There’s still a lot of really good climate change journalism out there, of course—and quantity does not equal quality—but it’s spread more thinly, and journalists are having tougher time finding solid pegs on which to hang it.

Talking with Alison Gannett about this winter and global weirding - ESPN

Global temperature increases result in really strange local weather -- record low temperatures, record heat waves, more windy weather, record droughts, and yes, even record snowstorms...In Pakistan, I saw glaciers advancing in 2005 due to increased snowfall, and then watched them retreat up to 50 percent by 2007.