One more ask before you go, Sen. Portman - cross the aisle on climate change: Tyler Gillette
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
In this July 2019 file photo, Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, discusses energy efficiency legislation he was introducing with New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (right) and Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins (left). Sens. Portman and Shaheen had early teamed up on a bipartisan energy efficiency investment bill that then-President Barack Obama signed into law in 2015. In a guest column today, Tyler Gillette urges Portman to pursue bipartisan climate change legislation in the time he has remaining in Washington.
Facebook rolls out climate change labels to poke misinformation
The labels on posts aim to redirect users to official figures and facts about climate change
Social media giant Facebook has launched a new content labelling system to tackle climate misinformation.
The informational labels, which will be rolled out initially to posts on climate in the UK and will soon expand to more countries, will redirect users to figures and data from official organisations.
A few months ago, the company introduced a new online hub, named Climate Science Information Centre that features facts, figures and data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and their global network of climate science partners, including the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the World Meteorological Organization, the Met Office and others.
to cope with the climate crisis? people asked. Weil seemed to anticipate this debate, which has remained contentious at least since David Wallace-Wells’ “The Uninhabitable Earth” made a splash in 2017. Near the end of the piece, Weil asks, “How do you describe an intolerable problem in a way that listeners even you, dear reader will truly let in?”
It’s a tough question, and experts are split over the right response. “Some people believe that we should emphasize the risks and generate fear and that many people are not scared enough yet,” said Jennifer Marlon, a research scientist at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. “And then other people think we really need to just focus on solutions.”
Warming Trends: A Facebook Plan to Debunk Climate Myths, Meltdown and a Sad Yeti insideclimatenews.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insideclimatenews.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Columbia Climate School must engage the public
The Columbia Climate School must engage the public Ryan Newberger / Staff Illustrator By Jacob Mazzarella | February 19, 2021, 12:22 AM
On July 10, University President Lee Bollinger announced the opening of the Columbia Climate School. He based the decision on Columbia’s commitment to public life, writing: “We are not free to ignore the issues of our age and pursue whatever we want. We are ultimately responsible to our societies and the world. To that end, we must answer the call to serve.”
This sentiment aligns with that of the new Biden administration. Specifically, President Joe Biden plans to create a White House National Climate Council and formulate a fiscal climate policy promoting regulations that reduce carbon emissions. However, Columbia’s good intentions will fall short of broadening support for progressive environmental policies if it only improves the expertise of elite individuals who are already conv