4C in the News

 

Climate change should be billed as a 'health' not 'environmental' disaster, Ecologist, July 22, 2010

Study: people grasp climate change better as health issue, USA TODAY, July 20, 2010

Weather Wars, SBS.com.au, July 20, 2010

What cap? Dems' climate word war, Politico, July 18, 2010

Climate science: An erosion of trust? Nature, June 30, 2010

More Heat, Less Light, New York magazine, June 20, 2010

Global Warming and the Pollsters: Who's Right? ABC News, June 16, 2010

Obama’s Choices on Energy and Climate, dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com, June 14,2010

Cut carbon, get healthy! Energy Collective, June 13, 2010

American Concerns about Climate Change Climb, Discovery News, June 9, 2010

In the eye of the climate change storm, by Stu Ostro, The Weather Channel Blog, April 22, 2010

Many Television Weather Forecasters Doubt Global Warming

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abc News/Nightline, April 22, 2010

Science Cat Fight, Colbert Nation, April 6, 2010

TV weathermen should re-think climate coverage, Washingtonpost.com, Metro, April 5, 2010

Selling Hell: Why We Are Losing The Climate Communications Battle, Times Online, March 31, 2010

Forecasters at odds about warming threat, The Washington Times, March 30, 2010

Among Weathercasters, Doubt on Warming, The New York Times, March 29, 2010

Young people don't seem to be especially hot about climate change, The Washington Post, March 9, 2010

Global warming skepticism rising in the GOP, Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2010

Global warming doubts could hamper climate legislation, The Christine Science Monitor, March 8, 2010

After errors, global warming gets a cold shoulder, The Boston Globe, March 8, 2010

Climate change skepticism a litmus test for GOP, Chicago Tribune, March 7, 2010

Some scientists misread poll data on global warming controversy, USA TODAY, March 6, 2010

Global Warming: No Big Deal? The Atlantic, March 3, 2010 

Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on Climate, The New York Times, March 3, 2010

Young Americans appear less concerned than their elders about climate change, Climate Wire, March 2, 2010

Climate science and public opinion 'can be a bit messy', Climate Wire, Feb 24, 2010

New survey says fewer Americans believe in global warming today, compared with 2008, Cleveland.com, Feb 23, 2010 

Despite climate doubts, Americans back CO2 curbs, The Baltimore Sun, Feb 23, 2010 

Many Believe in Going Green; Fewer Actually Do It, AOL news, Feb 19, 2010

When It Comes To Green, We Are Hypocrites, treehugger.com, Feb 17, 2010

Where the IPCC goes from here, ScienceInsider, Feb 15, 2010

Polar explorer sees warming threat, Billings Gazette, Feb 9, 2010

Harsh winter a sign of climate change, Washington Post- msnbc.com, Jan 28, 2010

Americans cooling on Climate Change, survey says, CNN, Jan 27, 2010

Declining Interest makes Climate Change a hard shell, NPR, December 5, 2009 

Lowering the doom, The Globe and Mail, December 4, 2009

Advertising heats up for Climate Summit, Marketplace, December 3, 2009

Television has less effect on education about climate change than other forms of media, Physorg.com, October 19, 2009

Declining Interest Makes Climate Change A Hard Sell

By Scott Simon on 12/05/09 from NPR

Despite any number of ads and awareness campaigns launched by the government, advocacy groups and corporations that have turned "green" into a superlative, the number of Americans who believe climate change is a serious problem has been declining, according to a recent study by Pew Research. Host Scott Simon talks to Ed Maibach, director of George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication, about the challenges of launching public awareness marketing campaigns about climate change.Retrieve from here.


Advertising Heats up for Climate Summit

By Sarah Gardner on 12/04/09 from Marketplace

ED MAIBACH: I think that name "Hopenhagen" is probably more or less lost on most Americans. If they're aware of the fact that we're negotiating an international treaty at all my guess is they have no idea where that's happening. Retrieve from here.


Is the U.S. news media failing to do its job on climate change?

By Michael B. Mercier on 11/09/09 from Reuters

It sure seems that America is out of touch with the rest of the world regarding global warming, and that the world is slapping us in the face to awaken us from our stupor. Delegates at last week's Barcelona climate talks were frustrated that U.S. negotiators came to the table unable to commit to concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to our seized legislative engine. ... The notion that the U.S. is out of touch also was borne out by the Pew Research Center survey that was widely reported on in the past few weeks. Pew found that fewer Americans (57 percent) believe that the earth's atmosphere is warming versus two years ago (77 percent). That statistic for many validates the view that we are in denial. But there was another statistic in that study that may suggest WHY the U.S. may be so out of touch. Pew also found that a majority of Americans -- 55 percent -- have heard nothing at all about the proposed cap-and-trade policy to establish limits on carbon dioxide emissions. Come AGAIN? That's right, 55 percent of U.S. citizens have heard NOTHING AT ALL about cap and trade. With a jaw-dropping statistic like that we must ask ourselves this question: Is the U.S. news media adequately doing its job as regards global warming? Retrieve from here.


Senate panel OKs sweeping climate bill

By Jim Tankersley on 11/06/09 from Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Washington -  In a move that stoked optimism for global climate negotiations but raised tempers on Capitol Hill, Democrats on a key Senate committee swept aside a Republican boycott Thursday to pass a far-reaching plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Retrieve from here.


'We Cannot Afford Failure': Merkel lends Obama support on climate change

By Gregor Peter Schmitz on 11/04/09 from Spiegel Online

In her speech to the US Congress, Angela Merkel called for a clear commitment by all nations to act on climate change -- a demand that plunged her into the heart of domestic political wrangling in America. But can foreign support help Barack Obama with the stalled climate change bill? Retrieve from here.