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This is a pretty watchable video on weighing the risks on climate change:
And here’s an ((admittedly biased) sorry my error, see comments) explanation of climate change written as a 101/glossary of the information you need to interrogate the above video.

Thanks to Mandy Meikle from the Crisis Forum list.

On the Guardian this morning, Bjorn Lomborg argues that politicians using the line that the cost of action on climate change “is low compared to the high price of inaction” are, in fact using an “almost fraudulent” argument. Lomborg believes politicians are getting away with this because “we assume that the action will cancel all [...]

Theyworkforyou.com is a superb project, and is a useful tool for journalists and political commentators alike. I’ve been using it to track climate change and global warming mentions in parliament for a few years now. This just dropped into my email, a typical exchange from Scottish parliamentarians George Foulkes and Richard Lochhead, and of no [...]

In a 48-hours where the ideas of geo-engineering gain prominence, it was a story in this weekend’s Observer Business and Media section that caught my eye for good environmental journalism. Oil giant Shell is accused of influencing–editing–an environmental report on the impact of the Sakhalin II oil project, which threatens the habitat of the western [...]

In his Public Understanding of Science 2000 article ‘Knowledge, Ignorance and Popular Culture’, University of Toronto Professor Sheldon Ungar suggests the reason that public understanding and concern could coalesce around the ozone hole, where it has failed to do so for climate change, was in part due to two things: first, that the ozone hole [...]

Tony at Harmless Sky has been following , for 18 months at least, development of BBC policy on the coverage of climate change.
He picks up on this line from a rather obscurely-titled BBC report on impartiality:
The BBC has held a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts, and has come to the view [...]

Well, that was interesting. My post on the limits to debate on cimate change has generated 40-odd comments so far (modest in the grand scheme, but detailed, and most of which has been useful and instuctive: couple of interesing sites in Devil’s Kitchen and QuestionThat). There were a few personal attacks here and here (and [...]

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 [...]

Thanks for all the comments so far. The post in reply, and new comments have moved on to the new post, over here.
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Earlier this week, one of the key sceptical blogs, Jennifer Marohasy, re-listed a collection of quotes to do with scepticism, denial and free expression. There are pegs on which denial–denial, and not scepticism–finds [...]

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 [...]