Global Warming Concerns Melting Away
That’s the headline of my latest post at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media. I discuss the slide and why it soon may be reversed.
Posts Under ‘global warming’ Category
When Life Gets in the Way
Miller-McCune has an article titled, “Why Isn’t Climate Change on More lips?” It starts off: Eighty-three percent of Americans believe the Earth is heating up, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsons poll. Yet most live as though global warming isn’t taking place, even while knowing that it is. The piece goes on to discuss an array of denial devices…Continue Reading…
The Durban Climate Deal and Cognitive Dissonance
There’s something remarkable happening this week in the climatesphere. People who routinely thunder that we are on the verge of climate doom have mostly shrugged at the lackluster outcome of the recent climate summit in South Africa. I’m wondering if they’ve self-medicated themselves with sedatives. Consider that, last week Grist’s David Roberts wrote (his emphasis): If…Continue Reading…
Will Global Warming Heat Up 2012 Election?
Six months ago, I would have said no. Now, I’m thinking there’s a good chance it may. I lay out the rationale over at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media. Also appearing today at the Yale Forum is Sara Peach’s meaty piece on the GOP’s dramatically changed stance on global warming. A…Continue Reading…
When Global Warming Isn't Scandalous
Many climate skeptics perturbed about the BEST results are complaining that the media has gleefully hyped the story. There is certainly evidence of widespread coverage in newspapers and the blogosphere. But the story has been virtually ignored by cable TV and mainstream broadcast outlets. Last night, Jon Stewart had some fun comparing that dearth with…Continue Reading…
Greenfieldism
Carl Zimmer coins a term and it catches fire on Twitter. Some examples: @carlzimmer I point to the increase in global warming and I point to porn. That is all. #greenfieldism @carlzimmer I point to the deliciousness of waffles and I point to Belgians. That’s all. #greenfieldism @carlzimmer I point to climate change and I point to a dramatic decrease…Continue Reading…
On Attribution, Global Warming and Disclosures
The issue of special interest/advocacy funding is ever present in the climate change debate. Several months ago, Matthew Nisbet challenged the conventional wisdom that environmental organizations were being vastly outspent by industry-affiliated associations and deep-pocketed conglomerates with an anti-regulatory bent. One of the things that perpetuates the monolithic climate skeptics-are-funded-by-industry meme is the lack of…Continue Reading…
Why Climate Change Loses Out to Sex and Scandal
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist:
The Love Affair with Climate Disasters
In recent weeks, disaster porn has mutated with concerns about climate change to produce an orgy of writhing, conflated arguments. People, I know you have a lot of pent-up frustration. It’s been a rough couple of years: a global recession, climategate, the failed promise of Copenhagen and Obama. I know how you’ve been yearning for years…Continue Reading…
The Google Guide to Global Warming
If you had little to none knowledge about climate change and wanted some facts, you would probably turn to Google. Curious to see what you would turn up, the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media recently conducted an interesting experiment. They did nearly 100 Google searches for terms related to climate change, such…Continue Reading…