Thursday, Mar 11th 2010
An interview with John Gibbons, formerly of the Irish Times
John Gibbons has covered the issue of climate change for the Irish Times for the past two years. Several weeks ago his weekly column abruptly came to an end. In his final piece Gibbons took the mainstream media to task over their climate coverage:
“Ireland’s most senior [...]
Climate Justice Photosteam From Copenhagen 2009
Very nice photostream from Climate Justice taken during the recent protests outside the Copenhagen 2009 Climate Change Summit.
Annie Leonard: The Story of Cap & Trade
The Story of Cap & Trade Annie Leonard’s brilliant 20-minute animated film looking at COP15’s favorite sustainability solution. The engaging, fast-paced film probes into the hidden dangers of the proposed (non-)solution, from how the biggest polluters are exploiting the system’s loopholes to why climate Band-Aids like fake offsets [...]
It is a common enough for blogs, independent magazines, message boards and independent news sources to take issue with how the mainstream media reports on climate change. The argument is that mainstream media is still sending out a mixed message and is failing to provide the public with the sort of accurate information that is [...]
“This debate will go on and on. It’s been an interesting discussion and hopefully we’ll come back to it again.” [Miriam O'Callaghan, RTE's Prime Time, 25th November 2008]
Miriam O’Callaghan concluding a recent Prime Time segment ‘Questions raised over global warming’, making the surprising claim that there exists a ‘debate’ over the science of climate change. [...]
Would you be willing to wait an extra six months for your income to double in order to sharply reduce the odds of catastrophic change to the global climate?
In his report to the Australian Government presented at the end of September Ross Garnaut told the Rudd Government that the Australian tax payer [...]
The convenient green honeymoon.
With everyone from David Cameron to Enda Kenny wearing their green hearts on their sleeves it’s easy to think that climate change is beyond politics. In this post Inconvenient Truth world, we’re all signed up members of the must-do-something-about-climate-change brigade. We just have to switch to energy efficient light bulbs, buy [...]