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The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media is grateful for the generous financial support of the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and of individual Yale University alumni.

News Notes
July 1, 2010

A new daily e-mailed energy report offers valuable mainstream coverage of breaking national energy and climate news from reporters working with politico.com, which first built its reputation and journalistic quals covering political issues.

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News Notes
June 24, 2010

While “suffering perhaps the lowest morale of its 40-year existence,” and with prospects for international efforts to control climate change “rapidly slipping away from them,” American environmentalists are looking to the BP Gulf of Mexico oil crisis as an unfortunate and regrettable opportunity — but nonetheless an opportunity — for overcoming industry and skeptics’ opposition.

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News Notes
June 24, 2010

One could hardly miss the gleeful “told-you-so” tone of satisfaction as some supporters of the commonly called climate change “consensus science” (for lack of a better term) relished a British newspaper’s full retraction of a January story wrongly blasting climate scientists as part of the IPCC’s 2007 Fourth Assessment Report.

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News Notes
June 24, 2010

Two books likely to be of great interest to those following climate change issues are among the four winners of journalism prizes from the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment, administered by the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting.

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Summertime, and the Living is ... HOT, HOT, HOT
June 24, 2010

A new study by British climate researchers estimates just how hot urban areas around the world could become by mid-century under a “business-as-usual” scenario in which carbon dioxide concentrations rise to 645 parts per million.

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At Issue: State's High Unemployment Rate
June 24, 2010

An initiative facing California voters in November would suspend the state’s landmark law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions until unemployment is 5.5 percent or less for at least a year. It now stands at more than 12 percent.

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News Notes
June 7, 2010

The University of Virginia has launched a legal effort to set aside the state attorney general’s demands for extensive records involving Penn State climatologist Michael Mann.

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News Notes
May 27, 2010

A weather outlook that looks painfully similar to that preceding 2005’s severe storm season.

That’s the bottom-line assessment of National Center for Atmospheric Research Associate Director Greg Holland, director of NCAR’s Earth System Laboratory. In the first of three concise videos capturing Holland’s assessment, taped during a recent National Science Foundation workshop on climate change communications, Holland describes (watch the video) what worries him about the forecast emerging among weather experts.

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News Notes
May 27, 2010

Public radio stations from across the U.S. will join with southern California local media representatives and others for a June 9 “Moving by Degrees” workshop on covering sustainability and climate change, sponsored by American Public Media and its “Marketplace” nationally broadcast radio program.

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Technology, Behavioral Changes Urged
May 27, 2010

Three new climate change reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering’s National Research Council provide continuing science-based support for those convinced that climate change is occurring and that the changes are caused “in large part” by human activities.

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