Consumerism and Happiness – headlines
•The Gift of Death •The more we hate it, the more it agrees with us. How advertising turned anti-consumerism into a secret weapon •Should We Prioritize Measuring Happiness?
Media & Communications
Climate Change and Fukushima – Radio Ecoshock Paints the Big Picture
Two ongoing environmental events are affecting all life on the planet, even if it’s not yet noticeable where you live. Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock is watching climate change and Fukushima very closely.
The Climate-PR Puzzle
If we hope to avert climate apocalypse in the decades ahead, we must make fundamental changes to industrial society.
Change The Earth
Our planet is in a state of emergency.
The propaganda campaign against peaking fossil fuel production
The two major threats to the continued viability of the fossil fuel industries (in our current economy) are decreased public demand for their products and a decreased ability to supply them.
Comedian Russell Brand takes on the crisis of civilisation. But what now?
During his Wednesday night interview with Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight, comedian and actor Russell Brand said what no politician or pundit would ever dare say…
Climate, media and money
•New Study Predicts Year Your City’s Climate Will Change •STUDY: Media Sowed Doubt In Coverage Of UN Climate Report •Plan to use financial markets to halt climate change is ‘doomed’ •Are There Any Major World Financial Institutions That Don’t Want To Act On Climate? •Rate of ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at highest for 300m years
Faux Pause: Ocean Warming, Sea Level Rise And Polar Ice Melt Speed Up, Surface Warming To Follow
Much of the media believes climate change isn’t what gets measured and reported by scientists, but is somehow a dialectic or a debate between scientists and deniers.
Climate – headlines
•New IPCC Report: Climatologists More Certain Global Warming Is Caused By Humans, Impacts Are Speeding Up •European forests near ‘carbon saturation point’ •Scientists have a moral obligation to take action on climate change •Study: Watching Fox News Makes You Distrust Climate Scientists
Climate headlines
•Reuters’ climate-change coverage ‘fell by nearly 50% with sceptic as editor’ •Polar Thaw Opens Shortcut for Russian Natural Gas •Arctic methane ‘time bomb’ could have huge economic costs
Peak oil lives! – headlines
•Peak oil isn’t dead; it just smells that way •Peak oil lives, but will kill the economy •Technology vanquishes the peak-oilers, again
Climate, politics, media & money – headlines
•The World Bank cuts off funding for coal. How big an impact will that have? •Unprecedented extremes and warmest decade since modern measurements: grim report from World Meteorological Organisation •Recessions make climate change costlier, Hope family research finds •Can Republicans Take the Lead on Climate Change? •Reuters Exposed: Publication Openly Hostile To Climate Coverage, Top Editor Doubts Climate Science •Australian Leader Scraps Tax on Carbon EmissionsSeas may rise 2.3 meters per degree of global warming: report •Old Tactic in New Climate Campaign