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News Notes
December 1, 2008

Thinning newsroom staffs and vapor-thin travel budgets won’t support your travel to cover the December 1-12 talks in Poznan on planning for a post-Kyoto climate change protocol?

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News Notes
December 1, 2008

An American Meteorological Society (AMS) website offers journalists and others a wealth of in-depth resources resulting from an ongoing series of monthly Capitol Hill seminars that have become something of a staple for many in the inside-the-Beltway climate change community.

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News Notes
November 25, 2008

Those interested in climate change and behavioral change - or lack of behavioral change - will be interested in Time reporter Bryan Walsh’s recent blog posting entitled “What the Public Doesn’t Get About Climate Change.”

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News Notes
November 25, 2008

“It’s a long way from $700 billion ….”

With that glib lead paragraph, the presumably still-employed Jenna Wortham reported in the November 24 New York Times that TypePad publisher Six Apart has started “its own economic bailout plan” for recently axed bloggers and journalists. The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program consists of TypePad Pro, generally retailing for $150 a year.

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News Notes
November 25, 2008

The National Environmental Education Foundation has posted online a series of 15 questions and answers designed to address what the group thinks are top questions on the minds of broadcast meteorologists when it comes to the issue of climate change.

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News Notes
November 25, 2008

Timing is everything.

So NBC Universal must not have been too surprised when it found its decision to dismiss a few score staff - including on-camera meteorologists and apparently its entire environmental unit - raised a few eyebrows.

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News Notes
November 11, 2008

A newly released “essential resource” for journalists, scientists, and educators working with climate change science issues describes journalists/scientists dialogues that took place in a series of nationwide workshops with support from the National Science Foundation.*

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News Notes
November 11, 2008

Ramping up wind and solar power could provide the nation with promising sources of alternative energy, but the U.S.’s existing electricity grid may not be able to handle it.

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News Notes
November 11, 2008

A youth movement that grew out of the International Climate Negotiations in Montreal plans a national teach-in on global warming across the U.S. on February 5.

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News Notes
November 11, 2008

Continued global warming is expected to cause the release of billions of tons of carbon in coming decades as peat bogs dry up, according to a Harvard University study published in the current issue of Nature Geoscience (see article in Nature Geoscience.

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