Media: Self-inflicted loss of trust in the media
Hype! Exaggeration! Scary Words! Just another day in media land!
Climate communications: Prepare to see lots of these stories
We are coming up on “COP30”, the annual global confab of business jet flyers to discuss climate. Decades of these huge meetings – often with over 100,000 attendees and support staff flying in to dine on flown in exotic foods – nothing has happened.
Climate: How not to do climate communications
2022-drought in Spain caused by climate change. 2024-floods in Spain caused by climate change.
Climate: How to mislead with a chart
The way this chart is constructed, it makes it look like all the major economies are expanding their carbon emissions. But they are not.
Climate: How not to do public climate information?
A climate scientist who says we need to talk about climate issues, blocks people who, apparently, say the wrong things?
“Crafting your scientist brand” – the rise of the celebrity expert
Scientists work with PR offices to establish a personal brand as a celebrity expert.
Media: Media’s “climate experts” do not understand their own subjects
Why you can’t trust the media on climate. This is not how to do climate communications.
Did the WEF urge a ban on backyard gardens? No
A study really did conclude that backyard vegetable gardens are worse for the climate than industrial agriculture. But it had nothing to do with the WEF, as some on social media have implied.
Climate: “Wind Chill” is now “Extreme Cold”
Wind Chill Warnings will be replaced with “Extreme Cold Warning”.
Media: Journalists urged to insert climate crisis into every story
How not to do climate communications – is precisely how they are doing climate communications.