http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org Communicating on climate change for scientists and the media en-us Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:01 EST Copyright 2008, The Yale Forum http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/pics/rss_logo_90.jpg 90 40 http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/features/0508_banking_woodside.htm Developments in the U.S. and abroad are increasing the focus in the banking and financial communities on impacts of climate change, leading to more column inches and air time on the climate issue for reporters on those beats. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/dept/0508_br_henson_dawson.htm An updated "Rough Guide to Climate Change" shows author/journalist/meteorology major Bob Henson's skills in writing an engaging and comprehensive climate change backgrounder well suited for a journalist's "essential reading" climate change library. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/features/0508_harvard_wihbey.htm So says a panel of media veterans steeped in covering both war zones and science. "The most psychologically burdensome story I've ever covered," says ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/features/0508_capping.htm The Bush administration's April proposal to cap greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 in practice amounts to a rejection of the 2 degree C (3.6 degree F) "dangerous warming" threshold embraced - at least in principal - by many scientists and the international community. A News Analysis. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/news/0508_news_hassol.htm Forget about "anthropogenic," and use "human caused" instead, advises Susan Joy Hassol. And for Americans, remember a critical point: It's Fahrenheit, and not Celsius! http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/news/0508_news_time.htm Time's just-once green-bordered cover isn't all that's green about this "agenda-setting piece," the start of its "kind of 21st century Manhattan Project" analogous to beating back foreign enemies or combating the Great Depression. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/news/0508_news_time.htm Take a stab at which one or two leading scientists made it to the Time "top 100" most influentials. Think you know? You may well be surprised. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/news/0508_news_gallup.htm People hear a lot more about climate change and think they understand it a lot better than they did previously. But Gallup finds public anxiety over the issue has been static for two decades, and concern is just about where it was 19 years ago. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/news/0508_news_sierraclub.htm The Sierra Club's survey of 1,000 Hispanic voters suggests the key bloc of voters are taking climate change and energy at least as seriously as the rest of the American electorate ... and perhaps more so. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/news/0508_news_wsj_nyt.htm An analysis of the Wall Street Journal's weekday front pages during the first three months under Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. shows a lot more political coverage and a lot less business coverage. During that time, front-page environmental coverage dropped from 3 to 1 percent of the front-page news hole. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/news/0508_news_umass.htm Recent major transportation/climate change studies by the National Research Council and the Department of Transportation set the stage for an end-of-May "think tank." http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/news/0508_news_city_county.htm Concerns over climate change impacts on public health? Yes. But resources to do much about those concerns? That's another issue altogether, suggests a survey of city and county public health officials.