Adam Corner on the “adverts that want to be your friend”

By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture

We're all far too sensible to be influenced by advertising, right?

Deep thought – headlines

By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org

•'Sleepwalking to Extinction': Capitalism and the Destruction of Life and Earth •The story of how greens became energy enemy number one •Collapsing Consciously

Jonathan Chait Is Wrong: The Keystone XL Fight Is An Excellent Strategy And Tactic

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

I am generally a fan of progressive pundit Jonathan Chait. But his latest New York magazine column, “The Keystone Fight Is a Huge Environmentalist Mistake,” misses the mark.

The Dead Tree That’s Bringing Drought To Life

By Ari Phillips, Climate Progress

This 38-foot-tall cedar elm, meant to bring attention to the crippling drought that has severely depleted reservoirs, bled dry important fluvial arteries, and killed more trees than there are people in America, bears a solemn burden.

The climate movement’s pipeline preoccupation

By Arielle Klagsbrun, Kirby Spangler, Waging Nonviolence

Much of the United States climate movement right now is structured like an archway, with all of its blocks resting on a keystone — President Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline.

The market for delusion on climate change

By Brian Davey, Feasta

If we are, as neo-classical economists claim, “rational individuals” then you would think that all of us would put a lot of weight on the opinion of such a large number of scientists and the rigour of the process that is gone through.

Bigger than that: (The difficulty of) looking at climate change

By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch

Sometimes the fate of the Earth boils down to getting one person with modest powers to budge.

Finding a Better Message on The Risks of Climate Change

By Diane Toomey, Yale Environment 360

To overcome polarization on the issue of climate change, Yale professor Dan Kahan says in an interview with e360, scientists and the media need to frame the science in ways that will resonate with the public.

Climate, politics & money – headlines

By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org

•Dealing in Doubt: Greenpeace Report Exposes Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Denial Machine •Abbottalypse Now •Naomi Klein: Green groups may be more damaging than climate change deniers •VIEWPOINT: Naomi Klein’s Criticism Of Environmental Groups Missed The Mark •The Fossil Fuels War

The rains of July

By Courtney White, The carbon pilgrim

Last week I relearned an important lesson: life is a force to be reckoned with.

The hockey stick is real!

By Ugo Bardi, The Frog That Jumped Out

Evidence that you are doing something right in the climate change debate often comes from the denial reaction. Most of the times, messages on climate change are simply ignored but, occasionally, the reaction is strong; sometimes rabid. Then, you must have hit a sensitive point!

“I’m sorry … what?”: a visit to the Met Office Hadley Centre

By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture

The other day a friend and I took our young sons on a tour of the Met Office’s centre near Exeter. The Met Office is home to the Hadley Centre, one of the foremost centres where climate modelling and research into climate change takes place. It was to turn out to be an event I left both angry and puzzled, and with some reflections I’d like to share here. The tour itself is of little consequence to this piece, other than to say that it managed to turn what could have been really interesting hour’s tour into a fairly tedious 3 hours, and certainly not a tour designed to sustain children’s interest. The low point for me, however, was when we actually reached the Hadley Centre. So, picture the scene …