Matt Damon’s troubled frack attack—Phelim McAleer - NYPOST.com

There was Wolf Eagle Environmental Engineers in Texas, a group that produced a frightening video of a flaming house water pipe and claimed a gas company had polluted the water. But a judge just found that the tape was an outright fraud — Wolf Eagle connected the house gas pipe to a hose and lit the water.

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Climate change haunts U.S. election

Although leaders around the world, including Obama, have agreed climate change is by far the most serious threat to mankind, it is getting short shrift in the presidential election of the world’s most powerful economy and one of its biggest polluters.

Four years ago, climate change was a dominant campaign issue for Obama, who promised leadership and immediate action on an international scale but never delivered.

Now it is a mere phantom of that time.

PR expert advocates scientist advocacy on climate change | Yale Daily News

She emphasized the need to offer scientific facts in a story-like way, adding that she hopes a prominent, credible “hero” will emerge who can persuade people that climate change is a clear and present danger while also remaining optimistic about the future.

“‘Junk food for fish’ sounds a lot better than ‘nitrogen pollution,’” Bolding said.

Some environmental scientists in the audience raised concerns about the feasibility of arguing persuasively while also remaining factually accurate. One argued that a scientist’s role is not to be a hero by relating information to the public, adding that persuasion inherently requires the skewing of facts.
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The talk was part of a speaker series called “‘C’ Words: Addressing Climate Change Without Talking About Climate Change,” which is co-hosted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Yale Climate and Energy Institute.