Lazy Reporters Overstate Climate Change Harms By A Factor Of 10 - Forbes

But there’s a clear sleight of hand at work here. The study’s introduction focuses primarily on “climate change,” only parenthetically mentioning that “our present carbon-intensive energy system” is responsible for most of the deaths. And that phrase, in turn, seems calculated not to tip off lazy reporters that they’re mostly talking about in-home smoke from coal furnaces and woodstoves. This has caused otherwise-reputable media outlets to inaccurately report these results as “global warming will kill 100 million people.” Many of them don’t even mention that almost 90 percent of those deaths have nothing to do with greenhouse gases or rising global temperatures.

UN Partners with The Rockefeller Foundation to Showcase Women’s Role in Addressing Climate Change

The Rockefeller Foundation today awarded a grant to the United Nations Climate Change secretariat to launch Momentum for Change: Women for Results, an initiative to showcase the active role that women play in addressing climate change. The three-year grant will support activities to inform governments, media and the public at large about the role of women in solving climate change.

Twitter / RyanMaue: Nature blames "ultra-conservative ...

Nature blames "ultra-conservative politicians" for defeating Obama climate measures,brain-dead to know Dems had complete control of Congress

Tornado Season Update–August 2012 « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

The preliminary number of tornadoes during the January-August 2012 period was 800, including 76 tornado confirmations still pending for July and August, marking the lowest January-August tornado count since 2002.

Ed Miliband is Wrong » Climate Resistance

One of the more blunt points made on this blog from time-to-time is that mediocrity explains a substantial part of environmentalism’s ascendency. It is a rot within public institutions of all kinds that can explain their greenish hue. To take one recent example, the liberties taken by climate change psychologist, Stephan Lewandowsky demonstrate the intellectual poverty that now thrives within the academy. This manifests as activism, poorly disguised as research, which expresses nothing but cynicism, not just towards climate sceptics, but the wider public. Another, more visible example is the ailing broadsheet newspaper. In particular the Guardian and Independent. Their shrill alarmism is owed in no small part to their journalists simply being incapable of making any sense of the world. This disorientation finds comfort in catastrophic storylines, that provide it with simple moral categories that in any other era would be laughed at in a B-movie plot.

But mediocrity is most troubling where it grips our political, democratic institutions.