Have motorcycle, video camera, intellectual curiosity, a summer break … and some supporting money … and two students are making their way around the Northeast seeking out attitudes on climate change.

Anecdotal insights from a World Resources Institute climate change communications video experiment offer hints for improving messaging techniques … but with plenty of not-so-fast qualifications.

Environmental Editor James Astill, in an in-depth report in The Economist, provides nuanced and meticulous reporting on energy, environmental, and trade implications stemming from the profound changes under way in the Arctic.

Law professor Jonathan Adler, no flaming liberal, accepts much of the science and outlines conservative property rights principles for addressing climate change challenges.

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert spoofs North Carolina ‘sink or swim’ legislation on an issue ‘near and dear to my heart and, more importantly, near and dear to my beach house in South Carolina.’

The Salt Lake Tribune‘s ‘Our Dying Forests’ series is recognized for extensive reporting on dying forests across the western U.S. Tribune reporter Brandon Loomis points to ‘a clear climate connection.’

Two two-day workshops among climate science communications experts and a hot new paper published in Nature Climate Change provide plenty of grist for ongoing point and counterpoint analyses.