Visit the one-stop info shop for Copenhagen
December 9th, 2009 by cdunaganI was planning to put together a list of sources to help readers follow the Copenhagen climate change summit.
But there is really no point of me doing the work, given the comprehensive Web site, called CopenBlog, put together by folks at the Society of Environmental Journalists. While I am a member of that organization, I had nothing to do with this project, though I wish I could say I helped.
What does the CopenBlog site contain?
Well, first of all, there is the daily coverage of the conference by numerous news organizations and official sources for Monday, yesterday and today, with more days to follow.
All the coverage is categorized by topic for easy searching.
The site also lists compilations for the:
Official COP15 Twitter
Feed,
The
Guardian Copenhagen Page,
SolveClimate,
Washington
Post Climate Page,
Grist
Copenhagen Hub,
Reuters,
AFP/Terra Daily,
ClimateWire
(subscription),
The Daily Climate,
and
New York Times Climate.
“Official Sources” include Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, United
Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, and United
National Climate Change Conference.
I am also quite pleased with SEJ’s “Climate Change Guide,” which includes sections on:
Institutions,
Environmental Groups,
Skeptics and Contrarians,
“Creation Care” and Evangelical Views,
Some Help for Sifting Disinformation from Information,
and several other helpful tools for environmental reporters.
I posted the links here so you can take a quick look at these subjects, but I think you’ll find that the Web site is so easy to navigate that you may wish to return frequently.
For a focus on the Northwest, I would add the Climate Impacts Group.
The only other thing I’d like to call your attention to for now is a series of opinion pieces by Paul Krugman, an economist and columnist for the New York Times who has been talking a lot lately about climate change and how the world ought to respond. Check out these columns:
Dec. 8:
“Climate Rage”
Dec.
7: “Unhelpful Hansen”
Dec. 6” “An Affordable Truth”
Sept. 27: “Cassandras of Climate”
Sept. 24: “It’s Easy Being Green”
Tags: Climate change, CopenBlog, Copenhagen, global warming, Society of Environmental Journalists
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December 10th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Here is your Society of Environmental Journalists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jqcnBugnl8
I’ll give you “environmentalists”. I won’t give you “journalists”.
December 10th, 2009 at 10:30 am
I guess it’s no surprise that, when it comes to climate change, even reporters are under attack by people distorting the facts. To see the full video of the event mentioned by BlueTube, go to Vimeo. The exchange between Al Gore and Phelim McAleer has been discussed on SEJ’s Web site.
December 10th, 2009 at 11:15 am
What “facts” are being distorted?
December 10th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
McAleer has said that members of the Society of Environmental Journalists are environmentalists but not journalists. That is simply wrong, and McAleer should know because he claims to be a member of the group.
December 11th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Ha! The link you posted of the McAleer incident touts itself as “unedited”. Of course its unedited. IT’S FROM A DIFFERENT CAMERA!!! You know… one that doesn’t show the guy saying, “cut the mic!”. One that doesn’t show the two thugs wrestling the microphone away.
Frankly, Chris, a lot of us are getting tired of only getting the view from the camera that shows us all is well.
BTW… Gore never did answer the guy’s question.
On a more immediate, local note… in the Governor’s budget page, the Puget Sound Partnership page claims that agency, “coordinates the activities of state agencies, federal, local and tribal governments, environmental organizations, business, and citizens…”
How are they doing at that?
December 11th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Look, I don’t know any more about the incident than what I read on the link I posted.
You’re right; Gore never answered the guy’s question. In response, the guy kept hogging the mike. The moderator wanted to move the discussion along and told someone to cut sound from the mike. Who acted properly, if anyone did, is a matter of opinion.
That doesn’t give you the right to denigrate every environmental reporter who belongs to this professional organization. That is unfair and extreme, yet it seems to be part of the political landscape when dealing with climate change.
December 11th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Here’s someone else “denigrating” them, Chris.
http://maciverinstitute.com/2009/10/more-to-the-story-of-al-gores-big-dodge-environmental-journalists-accused-of-not-being-journalists.html
December 11th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
BlueLight, I don’t know if you noticed, but this piece by Bill Osmulski is one of the stories listed in the SEJ link I posted above. Dan Miller, who was there, is entitled to his opinion. (Read the comments below the story for opposing views.)
One thing to keep in mind is that a large number of people attending the SEJ conference were not working journalists. That does not come across from those trying to discredit environmental reporters.
My strongest objection relates to people making generalizations about entire groups based on limited information.