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Monday, May 5, 2014

Climate tweets for 4 May 2014

To My Friend the Climate Defeatist: Here's Why I'm Still In the Fight: @CommonDreams 
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/30-2

When you're in a hole ... Megacities contend with sinking land: @BBCNews
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27202192 
[sea level, flooding]

Very touching: Whitman College Gets Married! (to Fossil Fuels): @350
http://gofossilfree.org/whitman-college-gets-married/
[investing, divestment]

RT Climate Reality ‏@ClimateReality:
MT @YEARSofLIVING: In 2012, ice that melted in Greenland & flowed into ocean=H20 over Niagara Falls for 5 yrs 
http://bit.ly/ShJAUC
[sea level]

What if the whole world stopped eating meat?: @LV_Anderson @slate
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/feed_the_world/2014/05/meat_eating_and_climate_change_vegetarians_impact_on_the_economy_antibiotics.html 
[vegetarianism, food, farming, ranching, agriculture]

RT Stu Ostro ‏@StuOstro:
By a month! MT @NWSWichita: As @StuOstro mentioned. Today's 102 breaks previous record for >100. The earliest >100 before was June 4th, 1933

RT Paul Thacker ‏@thackerpd:
.@MichaelOkwu @aaronernst Patrick Moore was NOT a Greenpeace cofounder. Good not to spread disinformation
http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/02/27/who-is-patrick-moore-a-look-at-the-former-green/198266 
[denial]

Convincing conservative Christians that global warming is real: @motherjones http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/inquiring-minds-katharine-hayhoe-faith-climate 
[Katharine Hayhoe, faith, religion]

Tornadoes, Dust Storms, Floods: What the Hell Happened This Week?: @mashable
http://mashable.com/2014/05/01/america-wild-weather-week/#:eyJzIjoidCIsImkiOiJfb3NhYmV0c3h1aWdoc2dnNCJ9 

RT Michael E. Mann ‏@MichaelEMann:
Great @LAtimes piece on Koch Brothers assault on renewables (http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-koch-brothers-new-foe-20140502,0,6774303.story#ixzz30l5kB4lZ …). Never would have happened if:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/koch-brothers-newspaper-los-angeles-times-chicago-tribune
[denial, renewable energy, clean energy, journalism, Los Angeles Times]

RT ClimateNow ‏@ClimateNow:
West Coast starfish being killed by pathogens, scientists suggest - mortality upwards of 95% 
http://bit.ly/1iNFvlC
[wildlife, oceans]

RT Sierra Club ‏@sierraclub:
Watch @annajanejoyner, @iansomerhalder, & @maryannehitt in @YEARSofLIVING TONIGHT on @SHO_Network! #YearsProject 
http://pic.twitter.com/2FGKUzvRhk
[Years of Living Dangerously]

ALEC Has a New Tactic It’s Using to Attack @EPA: @climateprogress 
http://thkpr.gs/1krO2WW
[denial, Koch, air pollution]

RT Ian Condry ‏@iancondry:
FossilFree MIT shows Cambridge flood line circling campus today. Divest and reinvest in renewables seems good path. 
http://pic.twitter.com/DHUqVSxzp2
[investing, divestment]


Tuesday, January 31, 2012

LA Times: Non-coverage of non-winter's climate connection

Los Angeles Times science reporter Eryn Brown sees a remarkably warm winter over most of the U.S., but manages to skate through without any mention of global warming, opting instead to point out that the Pacific Northwest has been cool and that Los Angeles has had a few chilly days.  Oh, and the Arctic Oscillation and La Nina have something to do with it too.

Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, commented on Twitter, "For climate change to not even be mentioned in a story on 'Year Without A Winter' lat.ms/xOa6N0 is simply journalistic malpractice."  I concur.  As I've said elsewhere, this winter isn't proof of human-caused global warming--it's just the kind of weather, in particular extreme weather, that we are likely to see more and more of in a warming world.  Any reporter for a major newspaper who doesn't point that out is failing in her responsibility.

Related posts:

Connecting dots on weather & climate: local newspaper shows how it's done, Dec. 30, 2011
How the New York Times could cover global warming, Dec. 23, 2011
The New York Times and global warming (not): why?, Oct. 3, 2011