Mainstream Media

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Is Freeman Dyson really “brave”? 20
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago Freeman Dyson is a Nobel-winning physicist who's argued -- utterly implausibly -- that carbon eating trees will save us and we shouldn't worry about the whole climate change thing. For this, he's been profiled in The New York Times and now dubbed a Brave Thinker by the Atlantic. But is he really that brave?
Corrections Dept.

WSJ reporter knocks own editorial page for Chamber defense 4
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago It shouldn’t be surprising that Journal editorialists find themselves challenged by their own news staff.
Time magazine names me one of the ‘Heroes of the Environment 2009’ 2
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago I don’t know what’s more suprising. That Time named me one of its “Heroes of the Environment 2009” -- I certainly don’t see myself as a hero. Or that they gave the assignment to Bryan Walsh, given my earlier critique of one of his pieces.
all the news that's fit to predict

NYT reads the future: Senate Dems consider maybe doing something in 2010 0
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The New York Times gets a scoop from May 2010.
There is no right word for doom if it's on page 13

We are what we think: Why the press fails us and how to fix it 6
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Why has climate change not galvanized us? Why are there "pro" and "con" positions on insuring a livable planet?

The press must accept some of the blame.
What are they smoking?

Obama endorses climate bill, press corps asks about his cigarettes 0
Posted 5 months ago
President Obama gave a strong endorsement of the American Clean Energy and Security Act at a White House press conference today, but reporters didn't bother to ask him about it.
Lots of great green stuff in the latest issue of The Atlantic 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
I haven't read The Atlantic much lately, but I picked up the latest issue at the airport and it is superb. Three pieces are worth particular note.
Weather (or not) to blame climate?

AP, Washington Times: “Experts suspect global warming” in Brazil’s brutal flooding 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Five Stages of Climate Grief

Anti-science conservatives are stuck in denial; for climate science activists, the reverse is true 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
A walk through the week's climate news

The Climate Post: Waxman-Markey, Bonn, and carbon counting 6
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The U.S. Congress fast-tracks climate legislation, international negotiators hash through the first “negotiating text” for year-end global talks in Germany, and big businesses start counting their carbon. The pile of climate stories this week climbed faster than predicted New England sea levels.
Must-see TV on ABC tonight — “Earth 2100: Is this the Final Century of our Civilization? 3
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Tonight at 9 pm Eastern on ABC, “Bob Woodruff explores what might be the worst case scenario for civilization.”
Just the (industry-sponsored) facts

Chevron hires former CNN correspondent to spin report on Amazon destruction 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
The New York Times has a great story about Chevron hiring a former CNN reporter to produce a "news" report to counter a 60 Minutes segment on the oil company's contamination of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
What's the sound of one hand solving a problem?

Republican incoherence on climate change 10
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Republicans can't offer the public a solution to climate change because their base won't allow them to acknowledge the problem.
Same polluters, new deceit

Industry spin on climate is still working on media 1
Posted 7 months ago
New York Times reporter Andy Revkin has a blockbuster story showing that the Global Climate Coalition, the main industry group that spent much of the 1990s seeking to sow doubt in journalists' and politicians' minds about the reality of climate change, knew all along that it was real and dangerous.
The green issue

The New York Times Magazine’s take on environmentalism is more interesting than most 1
Posted 7 months ago
It's Earth Week, so the MSM is trotting out its obligatory parade of environmental coverage. Unlike most, this is worth a look.
Free Broder

David Broder is the sultan of the status quo, and fatally uninformed about global warming 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." -- That is attributed to Dante, but applies best to the Washington establishment, especially one David Broder.
The karma of coal?

Climate change hits Australia with a vengeance 2
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Climate change-driven drought in Australia is leaving depression, despair, and suicide in its wake. The U.S. doesn't get this. Yet.
Following granddad's advice

An apology and an explanation for Friedman 22
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
My reaction to Friedman's column yesterday was overheated and excessively confrontational. It's worth explaining why I and many others are so frustrated right now.
Here's to you, Mr. Robinson

Fellow Washington Post columnist challenges George Will’s climate denial 1
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Another Washington Post staffer has joined the pile-on against columnist George Will's climate-change denial. Fellow columnist Eugene Robinson lambasted Will on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC Wednesday night, and also called out the editors who let him get away with it.
Recursive rebuke

Washington Post reporters call out George Will for lying in Washington Post 10
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Today, in a news story on Arctic sea ice, Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan explicitly call out Washington Post op-ed writer George Will for lying about climate change ... in the Washington Post.