Friday, June 27, 2008

"inconvenient truths" of mainstream representations of "climate change"

from the columbia journalism review:
http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/five_inconvenient_truths.php?page=all

...gives some insight into the practice of journalism, especially for outsiders, and details five representational (or misrepresentational) tendencies of reportage on climate change.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

CO2 scrubbing silos?

i love that their solution is to literally bury the problem: extract C02 from the atmosphere and pack it in the earth, under the oceans, or wherever.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/23/scrubbing-the-atmosp.html

whatever works, i suppose, but man what a mess.

free documentaries, online

in case you don't have enough time on your hands:
http://freedocumentaries.org/

i'm guessing these aren't all mainstream fare, for all the benefits and ills this entails. there is a section on "environmental documentaries," for example, that runs the range between gmo foods to radioactive contamination. there may need to be a bit of scanning happening...