Clear, Concise Writing Distinguishes Climate Central’s Global Weirdness | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

If you find the “plain language” — or as the authors in the hard back’s liner cover call it “clear and accessible prose” — somehow tedious and not worthy of your own intellect …

Step back. It’s possible that you’re indeed not the audience for the new book, which carries the subtitle “Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future.”

Physicist Muller’s Big-Time Conversion: Was It News … or Just Slick P.R.? | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

Amidst some back-and-forth among journalists and writers on a journalism listserve, freelance writer Brian Angliss wrote that Muller’s conclusions “are so unremarkable that they aren’t news in the first place, and thus don’t deserve the attention of reporters.” The only reason things had gotten to that point? “Muller convinced someone at the NY Times who should have known better than his little PR stunt was actually newsworthy,” Angliss wrote.

To Angliss, journalists spending column inches, air time, or even cyber-seconds on the Muller report “wasted precious time and energy on something that wasn’t news in the first place …. By treating a PR stunt (and Muller’s second, at that) as news, they’ve revealed that they can be diverted from whatever it is they’re working on to chase after the latest shiny object.”

Climate Framing: Public Health Rather than Environment, National Security? | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

Far from helping to persuade those deeply concerned about national security, climate change messages based on that framing “seemed to fan the flames of their opposition,” the researchers wrote.

Arctic Melt Season Getting Shorter And Ending Earlier | Real Science