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Is the Media to Blame for Climate Inaction?

Is the Media to Blame for Climate Inaction?

For years climate reporting had two strands: climate science got more alarming as we got closer and closer to exceeding various warming thresholds, and climate diplomacy and public policy were a relatively unbroken saga of disappointment and delay. The media flocks to bad news, conflict, grid-lock, failure. Both strands of the pre-2014 climate story nourished […]

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    Is the Media to Blame for Climate Inaction?

    Is the Media to Blame for Climate Inaction?

    For years climate reporting had two strands: climate science got more alarming as we got closer and closer to exceeding various warming thresholds, and climate diplomacy and public policy were a relatively unbroken saga of disappointment and delay. The media flocks to bad news, conflict, grid-lock, failure. Both strands of the pre-2014 climate story nourished […]

    Big Oil’s Nightmare Comes True

    Big Oil’s Nightmare Comes True

    “This was retail politics and oil lost,” was how Adrienne Alvord of Union of Concerned Scientists summed up the stunning environmental victory Tuesday in the California legislature, a victory which cemented the state’s commitment to a 40 percent reduction in climate pollution by 2030. It’s not accidental that states providing climate leadership are the states […]

    Ending Oil’s Monopoly in California

    Ending Oil’s Monopoly in California

    The eyes and the hopes of climate advocates everywhere should be focused for the next two weeks on California. Interstate 80, seen here in Berkeley, California, is a freeway with many lanes and heavy traffic.Wikipedia Our prospects for breakthrough climate progress rest on five global theaters of war: 1. Curbing and then ending reliance on […]