Picking Fight with CO2 Bully: Near-Term Effort for Short-term Gains | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

The effort, framed partly as a global health issue, is actually part of a new campaign whose primary aim is to cut short-lived pollutants, including black carbon but also methane and hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) emissions...

If the world’s nations can drastically reduce emissions of those three short-lived pollutants, 0.5 degree Centigrade of warming (0.9 Fahrenheit) can be avoided by mid-century, scientists estimated in a January 13 paper published in the journal Science.

Doomsday Genre Is Thriving in Cinema and on Cable TV | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

When it comes to movies about climate change, it seems that the choice is between disaster porn, which is what some critics labeled The Day After Tomorrow, and soft porn, which is what Last Day on Earth serves up between guilt-tripping admonishments.

Meanwhile, the National Geographic channel has a new dystopian show called “Doomsday Preppers,” which “explores the lives of otherwise ordinary Americans who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it.” I once thought that the most ardent believers in an imminent apocalypse were conspiracy types, the rapture crowd , and the flakiest new agers,  But when doomsday gets its own cable TV show from an illustrious media brand, you have to wonder: What, indeed, is the world coming to?

Only 70 Degrees Warming Needed To Start The Greenland Ice Sheet Meltdown | Real Science

Purdue Scientist Predicts 20C Warming | Real Science

In case you ever doubted that climate science is a psychedelic acid trip gone bad, I plotted RSS satellite data and 20C below. These people are completely certifiable nutjobs.

Broadcast Meteorologists Meetings on Climate Science | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

Editor’s Disclosure: The workshops featured in this news note are managed by the Editor of the Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media.

Premiers of Second, Third PBS ‘ETOM’ Broadcasts Set for Earth Day, April 22 | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

The advance materials, as did the original broadcast in 2011, emphasize Alley’s being a “registered Republican,” a regular soccer player and church-goer, and a former oil company employee (who, by the way, is also a contributor to IPCC, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a widely recognized innovative and expert climate science communicator).