Climate expert Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. slams ‘climate journalism’ & Lists Top 5 Media narratives – ‘A big part of climate reporting these days is simply climate advocacy’
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/top-five-climate-change-narratives Top Five Climate Change Narratives in the Media Coverage of climate has become more about narrative promotion than news By ROGER PIELKE JR. Source: University of Colorado Boulder I’ve seen a lot over the past three decades. For instance, I’ve seen my own research on climate go from being widely covered in the late 1990s […]
Climate protesters descend on DC to urge ‘Climate Emergency’ declaration – Block roads & vandalize sculpture at National Gallery of Art
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/04/26/climate-protest-dc-george-washington-parkway-traffic/ Wash Post excertp: Three climate protesters were arrested after blocking traffic on the George Washington Memorial Parkway in the area of the scenic overlooks Wednesday morning during a demonstration demanding that President Biden declare a climate emergency. The protesters blocked the northbound lanes for about 30 minutes before they were cleared by 9:15 […]
Study: The Less You Know About Climate, The More You Cry About Climate – or the more knowledge you have, the less you worry
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/the-less-you-know-about-climate-the By WILLIAM M BRIGGS Some things, the saying goes, are too good to check. Take the peer-reviewed paper “Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety” by Hannes Zacher and Cort W. Rudolph in Climatic Change. To my NPR-listener readers, “inversely associated” means the more environmental knowledge you have, the less you worry about the environment. […]