Culture of Climate Change

Nov. 23, 2009
Communications professionals employ sophisticated analysis of image, word, attitude and action.  The professionals at Environmental Communication Network have started a blog on environmental communication and culture called Indications. The posts so far entertain with the wide variety of materials posted.  The Sierra Club’s video, coal is too dirty even for college, shines with [...]

This website focuses on the Culture of Climate Change, and NOT on climate science.  Spencer Weart is the expert-of-reference on the history of climate science.  However, the Culture of Climate Change is underwritten by climate science.  It is the scientific consensus that anthropogenic climate change threatens the ecological systems across the globe.  This scientific consensus [...]

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) funds small grants for climate change adaptation and mitigation.  These grants cannot be used to aid people displaced by climate change.  They can only be used for environmental projects.  So, if your aim is to aid people directly impacted by climate change, then you need to somehow develop a project [...]

In October of 2008 a group of European and Chinese artists met in Beijing for a cross-cultural dialogue on how the arts can respond to climate change.  The events were ponsored by the Asia-Europe Foundation, Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Chinese Academy of Social Science, the Research Centre for Sustainable Development (RCSD), the China [...]

The Reuters News Service report (below) on the likeliness that climate change will drastically reduce the amount of land suitable for farming in Africa is sobering.   According to the report, “farming on up to 1 million square kilometers (247 million acres) of land in Africa could subside by 2050 as climate change makes areas too [...]

The New ABC show to air in 2009, Earth 2100 is part news cast, part popular imagination of what life will be like given climate predictions by leading scientists combined with resource depletion and rapid population growth.  The game EARTH 2100 demonstrates various climatic predictions around the globe and asks participates to create imaginary-docu-videos recounting [...]

On May 29, 2009 the National Science Foundation announced its first major award funded via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.  NSF funded the construction of the Alaska Region Research Vessel (ARRV).  This ship is designed specifically for research in icy water and will be used for a wide variety of studies related [...]

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