Wednesday, March 28, 2012

News on Climate Change diminishes even as Major Corporations make strides to Reduce Emissions | 3BL Media

The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research recently released their findings on the cycle of world newspaper coverage on climate change or global warming since 2004. As evidenced by the graph to the right, there has been a shockingly low rate of coverage in the past two years. So where has all the buzz about climate change and global warming disappeared to?

There go those gravy trains in Queensland & Victoria « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

At last, some real progress. Both Queensland and Victoria are peeling back the warmist bureaucracy. I’m happy.

The CLIMATE SCEPTICS Blog: Waste of Energy under our Government

A list of the current green schemes under this Federal government's rule.

Will Abbott end them when he takes over after the next election?

IBD: Medieval Warming Period Cools Climate Change Alarmism | JunkScience.com

The Medieval Warm Period is a profound problem for those who claim that man’s 20th- and 21st-century carbon dioxide emissions are warming the earth.

Dilemmas in science communication | Planet3.0

I also mentioned the issue of ‘false balance’: the journalistic tendency to give equal attention and weight to opposing viewpoints. For political topics (about what ‘should’ be done) that is often a laudable principle, but not so for scientific topics (about what ‘is’). Not every scientific sounding proposition is equally plausible, and good journalism ought to make a judgment call.

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