"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.

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...