The press and climate change

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Joe Romm points out that Eric Pooley, Kalb Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy and a contributor to Time, has just authored a discussion paper on how the press has covered the economics of climate change. The paper focuses on press coverage of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008. According to Pooley,

This is the great political test, and the great story, of our time. But news organizations have not been treating it that way.
Pooley argues that not only has the press done a poor job of covering the science and economics of climate change, but that top editors haven't devoted the resources to covering the issue that it deserves.

Gernot Wagner also has some thoughts about the report.

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Oxfam GB are beginning to attract visitors looking for information about climate change - including causes, effects and how they can get invloved to campaigns to help.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/climate_change/index.html

All your suppport would be very welcom

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