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Category Archives: On the Net
What Web Searches Reveal About Global Warming — And Us
Readily available research tools from Google and Yahoo! help paint a picture of peoples’ interests in climate change … or is it, ‘global warming’? … providing valuable insights for climate communicators.
A First-Person Account ...
Coal: A Love Story, Not A Gimmick
A 12-person student team addresses coal not as an energy story, but rather as a story of how our modern lives depend on an old energy source. One challenge: personalizing the story to help show how coal ‘lets us live.’
Searching For Climate Answers On Google:
Plenty of Riches … and Need for Careful Wording
Google and other search engine sites can lead to climate change riches … but not every search does. Researchers need to take a caveat emptor — buyer beware — approach and select their search terms with precision to avoid being [...]
One Constant Remains ... The 'Wow!' Factor
Digital Journalists Confront Unique Opportunities,
Challenges in Explaining Climate Change Online
A 3-D spinning globe on the new website TakePart tells a compelling story about the tremendous impacts of climate change. The graphic is part of an online feature explaining climate science. The globe, the centerpiece of the feature, can be [...]
Climate Change Web Videos:
Advocacy Edition
During the past five years, Web video has emerged as a battleground in climate communication. Journalists, comedians, artists, businesses, governments, climate contrarians and advocacy groups alike are competing to produce the medium’s slickest, funniest and most compelling messages. Take a [...]
A Viewer's Guide
Some Favorite Web Videos
About Climate Change (Pt. 1)
The Web, no surprise, is both a gold mine and a mine field of videos dealing with climate change. Here’s an initial “Top 10″ listing of our favorites, a list that will grow over time with – or without – [...]
Modeling CO2 Emissions – The Vulcan Project
An impressive YouTube video has been making its rounds over the past week, appearing at first glance to show high-resolution satellite images of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. Rather than images from space, however, the Vulcan Project is actually a revolutionary [...]



