Cambridge University has released another film in their ‘Cambridge Ideas’ series entitled ‘This Icy World’ shown below. The small film looks at the contribution of Greenland to global sea level … [Read full article]
Tag: media
Heavy Snow on the Korean Peninsula
In mid-February 2011, residents along South Korea’s east coast were struggling to dig out from the heaviest snowfall in more than a century. The BBC reported that hundreds of stranded … [Read full article]
Noam Chomsky on Global Warming & the Media [VIDEO]
After sharing a great video of Bill Maher talking about climate change on Facebook last week, a good friend of mine dropped this video in the comments. Another great one. … [Read full article]
Snowy U.S. Panorama by Satellite
NASA has released images of North America covered by the massive winter storm that last week hit 30 states. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) that cover the U.S. weather, … [Read full article]
Northern Lights Timelapse
A brilliant time-lapse video of the Northern Lights taken by photographer, Eirik Evjen. Check out his blog here.
Science Under Attack [VIDEOS]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklwzRihv6Y BBC had created a pretty great feature recently, Science Under Attack. “Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust … [Read full article]
The City Depicts World Without Us
The idea of a “world without us” has been often expressed over the past decade in book and TV, and now in photographed diorama, thanks to the exceptional work of … [Read full article]
Global Weirding News of the Week
Since we had plenty of news last Friday and I was heading out of town, I decided to leave our weekly roundup of global weirding and environmental news (that we … [Read full article]
AIDS News Coverage Losing Out to Climate Change, Study Finds
Remember AIDS awareness ads like the one above? Newspaper articles and PSAs were appearing with increasing frequency in newspapers and magazines in the early 1990’s. But that trend has been … [Read full article]
Rachel Maddow Dissecting the Development of "Conservative Truths"
Rachel Maddow is one of my newest heroes. Not because she is noticing or talking about things that others have not identified or shared in the past, but because she … [Read full article]
False Conclusions Made Regarding Climate Change Messaging Study
Media sites around the web were buzzing last week about a study that supposedly found that scary doom-and-gloom talk about global warming was counterproductive. I had some concerns about this … [Read full article]
Climate Science Rapid Response Team Launched
There is so much manipulation of climate science in the media and by special interest groups or companies opposed to transformation of our energy, transportation, and agricultural systems that the … [Read full article]
Survival International Wins Hollywood Film Award
I’ve written about Survival International’s activist efforts a couple times this year (see: Na’vi of Avatar in India Protesting British Mining of Sacred Indian Mountain and Amazon Being Sold to … [Read full article]