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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The thing you really never hear	David Roberts	27 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This column from Newsweek editor Evan Thomas is largely a witless recitation of conventional wisdom, but it does raise one point I want to make. It seems to me that every mainstream media figure in the world is out there saying a) tackling global warming is going to be horrendously expensive, involving great sacrifice and hardship on the part of ordinary families, and b) no one else has the courage to say A. But obviously everybody has the courage to say it. It's c ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Let's dump 'Earth' Day Environment Day? Triage Day? The holiday needs more than a new name	Joseph Romm	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves. I have a new piece in Salon: 'Let's dump 'Earth' Day.' It is supposed to be mostly humorous. Or mostly serious. Anyway, the subject of renaming Earth Day has been on my mind for a while. An excerpt:I don't worry about the earth. I'm pretty certain the earth will survive the worst we can do to it. I'm very certain the earth doesn't worry about us. I'm not alone. People got ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, extinction, habitat loss, holiday, messaging (all these topics)

Why I titled my book Hell and High Water 'Climate change' and 'global warming' are not scary-enough terms	Joseph Romm	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Andy Revkin of the NYT has a good blog post on one of the main problems with climate messaging by scientists, environmentalists, and the like. In short, it sucks! One problem is the name 'global warming' or 'climate change.' It sounds like a vacation, not a crisis. Indeed, one of the main reasons I titled my book Hell and High Water is that I thought it was a better term -- more accurate of what is to come if we don't act, more descriptive, more visceral -- and I ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, messaging (all these topics)

Experts agree: We should all lie. A lot. About important stuff. Nobody fights for change unless they see there's a problem	John McGrath	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Ugh. So my local paper decided to print its own local blend of Nordhaus-Shellenberger drivel. Did you know that "it's time to stop blaring dire warnings about the perils of climate change and, instead, start enthusiastically proclaiming solutions"? I sure didn't. It's not as if people like Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, or I dunno, Gar Lipow have spent years talking about exactly that. It's not like the central message adopted by successful c ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate, messaging, environmental movement, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Sensenbrenner: protecting the children from <del Oy	David Roberts	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
A panel of retired generals thinks global warming is an urgent national security threat. The U.N. Security Council thinks global warming is an urgent national security threat. But wait! We forgot to ask Wisconsin Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R)! Sensenbrenner questioned "why global warming has suddenly become an issue of national defense" and afterward accused politicians and pundits of stoking children's fears. Think of the children.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Congress, environmental movement, insanity, messaging, politics (all these topics)

The chasm between our agenda and climate science: The problem statement It's time to accept dire climate realities	Ken Ward	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
((brightlines_include)) A review of recent climate science findings finds that Jim Hansen's bright-line standard and timeframe for global action [1.0�C limit on further increase in global temperature / 475 ppm cap on atmospheric carbon with <10 years for global action] is, if anything, not conservative enough. A rash of recent reports identify major climate forcings wholly unaccounted for in IPCC models -- such as a five-fold increase in methane releases from Si ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, climate science, environmental movement, messaging (all these topics)

Feedback frenzy 2006, the year global warming came into focus	Joseph Romm	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Steve Connor from the U.K.'s The Independent summarized what we learned in 2006 with the article 'Review of the year: Global warming,' subheaded with, 'Our worst fears are exceeded by reality.' According to Connor, '2006 will be remembered by climatologists as the year in which the potential scale of global warming came into focus. And the problem can be summarised in one word: feedback.' Connor has collected and examined research from the last year on positive and ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, messaging (all these topics)

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