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I can’t make it to Climate Camp as I’ve got a couple of deadlines approaching for a book chapter and article (both on climate change–reasonable excuse?) But to do my bit I’m going to try and monitor the language that the media uses to report on activities at the camp.
I’ll look at the different ways [...]

I just caught the first instalment of Mark Watson’s Radio 4 Book of the Week this morning: the story of his ‘one year of doing the environment better’ that he’s put together in his new book, Crap At The Environment.
Fair play to Mark for taking on the subject, and doing it in both a [...]

Today’s Ofcom bulletin confirms the ruling on the mistreatment of leading scientists and the IPCC in the ‘Great Global Warming Swindle’, broadcast on Channel 4 back in early 2007. I covered the background to the Great Global Warming Swindle coverage in a previous post.
Ofcom have found Channel 4 in breach of the Broadcasting Code in [...]

Ofcom will rule next week that Channel 4 did not mislead the public over the science of climate change with its programme the Great Global Warming Swindle, according to Owen Gibson in the Guardian this morning.
There is some criticism of Channel 4 and the GGWS programme, produced by Michael Durkin:
Ofcom is expected to censure [...]

The timing of these two stories was interesting. First, George Bush reported as signing off from the G8 with the line: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter‘. Picked up the Independent, Telegraph and across the blogs; Climate Progress or, perhaps, the Greenpeace US blog probably says it best:
193 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes until Bush [...]

Communicating risk is a challenge. It is also, according to Ulrich Beck, socially constructed, in that what we perceive as risk (or not) is very much to do with what is presented, and how it is framed.
Earlier this week, Framing Science ran a piece on how communicating climate change as a security issue has shifted [...]

Two things I picked up off the blogs last night. First this story from the PEW Centre for excellence in journalism: that the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have buried environmental stories. And second, this news clip likening climate change deniers to a drunk crazy guy who got stuck in his toilet. “They’re [...]

Yesterday I looked at the 40% decline in coverage of climate change in the UK national press between May 2007 and May 2008 due, most probably, to coverage of the credit crunch. While that was disappointing, today I’m taking a closer look at some of the specific coverage of climate change in May 2008, starting [...]

Headline coverage of climate change in the UK national press has dropped by over 40% since May 2007.
In May 2007, 103 headline stories in the top 20 UK newspapers carried either ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ or ‘Kyoto Protocol’ in the title. In May 2008, that figure had dropped to 59.

One month’s statistics could be [...]

Anyone wanting to understand how politics gets its bad name should read this New York Times’ article covering the climate bill debate in the US Senate this week. The one that was rejected on Friday, an outcome welcomed with unadulterated glee by a number of denier sources.
Many of the leading 100 good men and women [...]