- Australia: Worst drought ever, but don't mention climate change!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Despite record drought conditions in Australia and the numerous climate related disasters around the globe, the Australian goverment still refuses to acknowledge human-induced climate change.
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Cancer in Occupy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists — so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property — is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.
- Changing minds on a changing climate
What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
- Climate Change Poses Huge Challenge To The Coast Guard, But Fox News Would Rather Dismiss It
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Climate change and national security are no laughing matters but Fox News thinks it's hilarious when you pair the two together. The scientific community would disagree with Fox News.
- Climate Crisis - The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
We find that Britain and the US - the two countries responding most aggressively to alleged 'threats' to human security in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya - are also the two countries least interested in responding to the very real threat of climate change.
- Climate Deniers are More Dangerous Than Trump and More Deadly Than ISIS
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
So Rep. Lamar Smith (D-Tx.) finally got his NOAA emails. What he really should get is a jail sentence for crimes against humanity. He, and the other climate deniers like him who hold positions of power, are arguably more dangerous than Donald Trump and more deadly than ISIS.
- Climate Struggles and Ecosocialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The hard right U.S. administration of Donald Trump has widened the terrain of struggle over climate change and, indeed, the entire array of environmental issues facing the ecology of North America and the working class movement.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Crossing the River of Fire
The Liberal Attack on Naomi Klein and This Changes Everything
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A review of Naomi Klein's book "This Changes Everything" on climate change and its political enviroment.
- Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
A book that tries to understand why people are so prone to deny or ignore the reality of climate change.
- Edelman's TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry's Broad Attack on Public Interest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Edelman strategy documents and work proposals outline a "grassroots advocacy" campaign plan to build support for TransCanada's Energy East pipeline as well as to undermine public opposition to oil and pipelines generally. Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed for years to win approval of the controversial border-crossing Keystone XL pipeline, so apparently the company has decided to "win ugly or lose pretty" with an aggressive public relations attack on its opponents.
- Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Fossil Fuel Industry promotes a plan in U.S. schools to address global climate change. Their plan includes denial, doubt and promoting the merits of fossil fuel.
- Fox Attacks Obama For Calling Climate Change An Immediate National Security Threat
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
President Obama annouced that the climate change crisis is a matter of national security and Fox News mocked the claim by saying that the statement detracts from 'real threats'
- A freedom that we can't afford
Rightwing thinktanks profess a love of freedom, but their refusal to reveal who funds them is deeply undemocratic
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Freemarket thinktanks vastly outnumber those arguing for public spending. The author suggests that these thinktanks allow corporations to exert influence on public life without showing their hand, he advocates for legislation that would insure their funding is transparent.
- The Heat Is On
The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
- The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Dispatches from the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Michael E. Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick graph first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind the controversy of climate change, and the implied threat to those who oppose governmental regulation and other restraints to protect the environment and planet.
- How Big Oil Plans to Win Ugly in New York
Leaked Transcript from PR Maven Shows Energy Companies will be Told to Make the Fight Against Fracking Opponents Personal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A PR firm well known for its hardball tactics in defense of Big Tobacco will deliver the keynote address at tonight’s Independent Oil and Gas Association conference.
- How ExxonMobil's Spending Bonanza Helped Two British Climate Sceptics Set-Up An International Free Market Think Tank
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Roger Bate and Julian Morris of the British free-market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), decided to catch ExxonMobil's gravy train across the Atlantic as they began working for US think tanks.
- How Propaganda Works to Divide Us
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
- How the 'guerrilla archivists' saved history -- and are doing it again under Trump
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 2017
On Inauguration Day, a group of students, researchers and librarians gathered in a nondescript building on the north side of the University of California, Los Angeles campus, against a backdrop of pelting rain. The group had organized in protest against the new U.S. administration. But, instead of marching and chanting, participants were there to learn how to "harvest," "seed," "scrape" and ultimately archive websites and data sets related to climate change.
- How to Avoid Action on Climate Change
The fine art of greenwash in Canadian politics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
- How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
This article outlines ways to address common climate-contrarian arguments, all of which contain errors in reasoning that are independent of the science itself.
- The Inquisition of Climate Science
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. Lawrence Powell's book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.
- James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Hansen has provided the starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy aimed at keeping the increase in global average temperatures below 2°C (3.6° F), an amount that constitutes the planetary tipping point with respect to climate change.
- Marc Morano's Climate Hustle Film Set For Paris Premiere With Same Old Denial Myths
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Marc Morano is never short of a superlative or two, but when it has come to promoting his long-gestating documentary Climate Hustle, the climate science denialist extraodinaire has been outdoing himself.
- Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given these individuals a soapbox and allowed the public to believe there are divisions in the mainstream scientific opinion on global warming where none exist.
- Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsky discusses the media coverage of these two major issues, highlighting US tensions with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as discussing the recent US airstrike on Syria's Air Force base.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
Science and its enemies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
- Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
- Roadblocks to Climate Activism
The Problem of Natural Localism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The consequences of global warming. The evidence for the evolving dire effects of building CO2 and other greenhouse gases is getting increasingly conclusive. We are a species influenced by natural localism, and therefore the majority of Americans, and others in the West as well, are not going to abandon a present full of profit and relative comfort as long as the sky is clear in their own local place and time. As to the future beyond their grandchildren, it simply does not seem real.
- Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science.
- TransCanada hires controversial PR firm to derail opposition to Energy East pipeline
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
There are now multiple news articles that report Calgary-based TransCanada hired the controversial public relations firm Edelman in an attempt to derail growing public opposition to its proposed 1.1 million barrels per day Energy East tar sands pipeline.
- Washington and the Oil Industry Know the Truth About Climate Change
Short-Term Profits Trump Survival
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Climate skeptics in Congress, and oil and coal industry lobbyists like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Coal Council (ACC) may be preventing any significant action in the US on reducing this country’s emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, but at the Pentagon, and in the executive suites of the oil industry giants, there is no doubt about the reality of climate change.
- Who Speaks for the Climate?
Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
This book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public explore how the media portray climate change and how they shape the spectrum of possibilities for policy action. Providing a bridge between academic research and real world developments, Boykoff makes sense of media reporting of climate change.
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