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Media Mayhem: Can Twitter save the earth?

How a social networking site beat the major media on a major environmental story.




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Media Mayhem: The skeptic tank

Despite a scientific torrent of data on global warming, the denial industry is alive and well -- living in a cooler, happier parallel universe.



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Ball four!

Enviros stage (at least) four lavish, environment-saving events to ring in the Obama administration.




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Media Mayhem: Unquote

I wanted to call this the “Ten Dumbest Environmental Quotes Ever,” but that would imply that the Ten Dumbest Things Ever have already been said.



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Running low on green ink

Newspapers across the country are slashing their staffs (especially the science reporters,) and some are folding altogether.




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Media Mayhem: Deny-a-palooza

How an annual climate deniers' conference in New York reminds me of Jim Carrey in 'Dumb and Dumber.'



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Don't trust this man

Marc Morano, a Republican operative, has taken denying climate change to a whole new level. Don't say we didn't warn you.



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Justice denied

A new book explains why you’re more likely to go to jail for stealing a DVD than for poisoning a town.




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Media Mayhem: A paler shade of green

A new Gallup poll shows more Americans are concerned about the economy than the environment. Peter Dykstra parses the details.




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Media Mayhem: Real reality TV

Get your remotes ready. Some strong programming is coming up in advance of Earth Day.



  • Arts & Culture

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Media Mayhem: Leaf through these books

In honor of Earth Day, our columnist reveals his 13 favorite eco-books.



  • Arts & Culture

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Media Mayhem: Bad news, and news done badly

After the recent swine flu outbreak, it's worth looking at the difference between reporting the news and scaring the audience. The former head of CNN's science



  • Research & Innovations

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Media Mayhem: What’s in a name?

Global warming or climate change? Sean Combs or Puff Daddy? Do name changes really mean anything?



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: The state of eco-media

In his final "Media Mayhem" column, Peter Dykstra looks out across the environmental journalism landscape and reflects on what he sees. Is he happy? Sad? Or a h



  • Research & Innovations

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Media Mayhem: Red herring or red meat?

Be prepared for a cable news climate bill debate that has nothing to do with the climate bill.




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Media Mayhem: David vs. Goliath

Are think tanks actually thinking or are they merely pawns of a bigger agenda? A recent study has a fascinating answer.




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Media Mayhem: My last 'Apocalypse Now' headline

When is rhetoric over-the-top when you're talking about climate change?



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Fox bursts my bubble

The global media’s response to the climate change bill shows how much influence Fox News has on the debate in the United States.



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Coal's silver lining

Environmentalists may have to resort to civil disobedience to fight the source of country’s biggest greenhouse gas.




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Media Mayhem: 7 environmental stories that are free of doom and gloom

From an eco-city in China to a coffee producer in Uganda to 'towers of power' in Spain and California, some good news from the green frontier.



  • Research & Innovations

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Media Mayhem: Cap-and-trade panic a familiar media tactic

As history has shown us, environmental regulations often help the economy, not hurt it. Why can't corporations -- and Congress -- learn from the past?



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Two worlds collide

Why can't cable news and science get along? Easy -- scientists are from Mars and the media are from Venus.



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Hope and change 2.0

In the name of research, our intrepid columnist is joining online communities like there's no tomorrow. What he found, though, is that it can actually help buil



  • Research & Innovations

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Media Mayhem: A tongue-in-cheek civics lesson

Let's apply the great American traditions of propaganda and intimidation to the climate change debate.




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Media Mayhem: The climate's right for hope

As the Senate takes up the climate bill (maybe), activists need to point Americans away from lies and despair, toward inspiration and opportunity.



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Newspapers put a happy spin on their decline

While industry apologists peddle the idea that newspapers are doing just fine, the new media world is leaving them behind.



  • Research & Innovations

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Media Mayhem: Nuking climate change

When people like John Kerry back nuclear subsidies, green activists find themselves in a difficult position.




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Media Mayhem: Limbaugh's 'fatwa' against the New York Times' Andrew Revkin

How can you blame the master of talk radio for suggesting that an elitist environmental reporter kill himself?




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Media Mayhem: Bringing up baby in a cyberworld

Our media columnist’s newborn son wonders how he’ll get information when he’s all grown up.




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Media Mayhem: High noon for 'SuperFreakonomics'

The bestseller’s flawed climate arguments show that maverick heroes aren’t right about everything.



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: The real Climategate

A spurious debate over purloined e-mails overshadows evidence that climate change is worse than we thought.



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Dubai's fable in the desert

It's tempting to see a moral tale in the emirate's financial struggles -- but that's a bit too simple.




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Media Mayhem: Driving around in circles

When all reason says we ought to be backing more transportation options, the media is still obsessed with automobiles.




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Media Mayhem: 5 more tall tales by climate change deniers in 2009

Last week’s readers help me come up with five more juicy ones to chew on.



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: Our media columnist's first annual 'Hot' or 'Not' list

What do Michael Pollan, Marc Morano, Lisa P. Jackson, nuclear energy and the climate have in common?




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Media Mayhem: It's time to get scrappy, Mr. President

To fulfill his promise to become the 'Climate Change President,' Obama will have to channel his inner Harry Truman.




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Media Mayhem: Tea Partiers are from Mars

Media columnist Ken Edelstein visits with Tea Partiers and energy-efficiency advocates, and comes away with a dizzy feeling.




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Media Mayhem: Poison is healthy. Dirty is clean.

Ah, the contradictions of corporations trying to look presentable at the green party. Here are 5 to consider.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Media Mayhem: The skeptics 'win' -- for now

The status quo gets what it wants when it sows confusion.



  • Climate & Weather

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Playboy is no longer a nudie mag. (Now you can actually read it!)

For readers, it's great news that Playboy is getting rid of the naked photos.



  • Arts & Culture

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Protests rock Copenhagen, Day 6

Worlds collide as energy corporations, Fortune 500 CEO's, nonprofit leaders and 60,000 protestors try to make sense of the Copenhagen climate talks.



  • Research & Innovations

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Copenhagen Day 8: G77 walks out, Canada punk'd

Canada does an about-face on its climate target (if only) and the G77 suspends talks after a move to eliminate Kyoto Protocol language.



  • Research & Innovations

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Copenhagen Day 9: Official draft released, drama ensues

Ethiopia shocks African nations by supporting the new draft agreement at Copenhagen. Drama sure to ensure tomorrow.



  • Research & Innovations

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Copenhagen Day 10: NGO fury

NGO's furious over new draft agreement and a radical reduction of badges at the Bella Center. Only 300 delegates will now be allowed in.



  • Research & Innovations

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Copenhagen Day 11: Hillary thwacks ball into China's court

The U.S. secretary of state makes the ACES climate bill targets official and pledges to build a $100 billion fund.



  • Research & Innovations

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Obamahagen (Day 12): ALBA lambasts 'friendly nations' meeting

The Bolivian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) led an impromptu press conference denouncing the closed meeting of 18 'friendly nations' led by Obama. Hugo Chavez



  • Research & Innovations

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Pay your legal fees with carbon credits

Clients of the Cueto Law Group in Miami, Florida can now pay up to 20% of their legal fees with carbon credits.




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Do climate talks just get in the way of climate progress?

The world's most committed climate activists are descending on Durban for the next attempt to reach an international climate change treaty. So why did one of mo




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Scientists say new climate change report must focus on consensus

The United Nations rules require the IPCC to seek unanimous consensus, a fact that climate scientists want to see emphasized in the newest report.



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Senate committee may take EPA's wallet

Each time the EPA is attacked Democrats struggle more to defend it