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As G-8 climate talks fail, some analysts urge a different approach

Posted on July 9th by Tom Yulsman.
At the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy today, leaders of the world's 16 biggest polluters failed to reach agreement on specific targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The failure ...
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Coming to a political beat near you: policy wars over global warming

Posted on April 5th by Tom Yulsman. %
As intense partisan politics begin to infuse the climate change story, what do journalists and journalism students need to know? Note: This piece appears in the Spring 2009 of Nieman ...
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Joe Romm: the entirely dispensable censor

Posted on March 27th by Tom Yulsman. 26
Update end of day 3/29/09: Last spring, Ted Nordhaus wrote the definitive piece on Joe Romm and like-minded environmentalists. It is headlined, "The Green Politics of Personal Destruction: Deconstructing ...
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A tale of two stories

Posted on March 18th by Tom Yulsman. 21
New research published in Nature suggests the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is vulnerable to collapse from global warming, but if it happens it would likely take place over ...
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Global warming shibboleth

Posted on March 12th by Tom Yulsman. 6
Better understanding of science really is not key to climate action   Yale 360 has published an interview with New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert on climate change in which she takes a rather ...

The Believers

Posted on March 3rd by Tom Yulsman. 13
After weeks of blogging it out with perfervid advocates on both side of the climate policy debate, I feel as if I've been slogging through a thorn thicket growing in ...

Hostilities mount in climate change wars

Posted on March 2nd by Tom Yulsman. 6
Update 9:30 p.m., 3/2/09: Keith Kloor has a marvelous post here on a parallel between the treatment of Andrew Revkin and what William Cronon had to endure from some ...

CLIMATE EXTREMIST SAVAGELY ATTACKS NYT’S REVKIN

Posted on February 25th by Tom Yulsman. 11
Well, not really. In describing Joeseph Romm's withering critique at his Climate Progress blog of Andrew Revkin's climate coverage, that headline is an example of sensationalism and hyperbole. Of exactly ...
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Al Gore versus George Will

Posted on February 23rd by Tom Yulsman. 2
UPDATE TO ORIGINAL POST, 2/24/09: See Andrew Revkin's news analysis in the New York Times, here Natural disasters 1995-2008 In a recent speech to the AAAS, Al Gore said a ...
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Reporting on snowpack & water resources not useful for readers

Posted on January 18th by Deserai.
The Colorado River rushes through Glenwood Canyon in the spring of 2008. At that time, water storage in reservoirs in the Upper Colorado Basin was ...
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Open notebook: Tips for reporters on the coming climate wars

Posted on January 16th by Tom Yulsman. %
Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in my open notebook project. (The previous posting was a Q&A with Roger Pielke, Jr.) As I mentioned in my first post, ...
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New study: sea level could rise much higher than expected

Posted on January 10th by Tom Yulsman. 4
This map depicts areas that would be inundated with a sea level rise of 1 meter. (Credit: CReSIS/Haskell Indian Nations University)  A new study published in the journal Climate Dynamics suggests global ...

Open notebook: interview with Peter Dykstra, formerly of CNN

Posted on January 6th by Tom Yulsman. 4
Editor’s note: This is the third installment in my open notebook project. As I mentioned in my first post, I’ve been commissioned to write about the future of the ...

Open notebook: My interview with Andrew Revkin

Posted on January 5th by Tom Yulsman. 2
Editor's note: This is the second installment in my open notebook project. As I mentioned in my first post, I've been commissioned to write about the future of the ...

Coal sludge: top story in today’s N.Y. Times

Posted on December 25th by Tom Yulsman. %
At long last, the Grey Old Lady has spoken — and loudly — with a front page story that begins like this:   "KINGSTON, Tenn. — What may be the nation's ...