Climate Change And Its Politicization In The Media

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Published on Feb 13, 2014

Dana Bell interviews Media Matters Climate and Energy Program Director Shauna Theel. Shauna discusses the conservative media’s coverage of climate change, from snow-trolling to denial.

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MSNBC’s Alex Wagner On Climate Change: “Why Are We Still Debating This Basic Fact?”

Wagner Asks Bill Nye About Meet The Press‘ Climate Change Debate

Video ››› February 26, 2014 5:52 PM EST ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF

From the February 26 edition of MSNBC’s NOW With Alex Wagner:

Previously

Sunday Shows’ Climate Coverage Shows Media Vulnerability

CNN’s Reliable Sources Questions Why Media Present Existence Of Climate Change As A Debate

CNN’s Crossfire Dredges Up Climate Change Denial During “Backwards” Debate

Fox News Objects To Obama Calling Climate Change A Fact

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ALEC…Accessory to Murder?

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Published on Feb 27, 2014

Diallo Brooks, People For the American Way, joins Thom Hartmann. Today is the 2 year anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin – but America still seems as far away as ever from solving its problems of gun violence and racism. Time to end “Stand Your Ground.”

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Is there any “REAL” news left?

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Published on Feb 27, 2014

Jeff Cohen, Park Center for Independent Media – Ithaca College, joins Thom Hartmann.

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Reuters is Morally, Ethically & Scientifically Wrong

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Published on Feb 27, 2014

The mainstream media is failing us when it comes to covering the story of the century – made climate change. And, as Media Matters has recently reported, there’s no better example of this failure than the decline of climate coverage at Reuters since that news organization hired Paul Ingrassia as as an editor. Ingrassia is a self-described “climate skeptic,” and questions whether or not global warming is man-made. Denying climate is absolutely insane.

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Big Oil and Bad Air: Report Exposes Link Between Fracking and Toxic Air Emissions in Texas

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Published on Feb 27, 2014

http://www.democracynow.org – Residents who live near areas of oil and natural gas fracking have long complained that the industry has poisoned their water with toxic chemicals. Now a new investigation is shedding light on another concern: air quality. The new report, “Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale: Big Oil and Bad Air on the Texas Prairie,” is the result of an eight-month investigation by InsideClimate News, the Center for Public Integrity and The Weather Channel. We speak to David Hasemyer and Lisa Song, two of the reporters who worked on the investigation.

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MA Sustainable Communities & Campuses | Environmental Sustainability Conference

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IRCS – Summer School 2014 – Concept

Summer School – Urban Transitions to Sustainability

IRCS (International Research Center on Sustainability) at Rheims University is hosting a Summer School on Urban Transitions to Sustainability in the framework of the yearly Rencontres Internationales in Sustainability Studies. This summer school is organized jointly with SENSE (The Netherland Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment).

This course is specifically designed for doctoral students, post-docs and young scholars who whish to further explore urban sustainability, discuss cutting-edge research with peers and established scholars alike and develop specific skills such as presenting their own research, developing abstracts and discussing the research of other scholars in the make.
The course will take place in an environment that favours mutual learning, exchange and conviviality surrounded by the beautiful landscape of Champagne.

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Mr President…Regulate Now or We Face Extinction

The Big Picture RT   Published on Feb 25, 2014

New research suggests that if we don’t start tackling climate change right away – it could be game over for civilization in just a few generations.

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PipeLIES Exposed

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Published on Feb 25, 2014

Dave Saldana, “PipeLIES Exposed” joins Thom Hartmann. On Wednesday – a Nebraska judge struck down a state law that gave Nebraska Governor. Dave Heineman the power to approve the route of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline through the Cornhusker state.

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