When Covering Climate Now launched The 89 Percent Project in April, the goal was to draw attention to the fact that an overwhelming majority of the world’s people — 80 to 89%, according to scientific studies — want their governments to “do more” about climate change. Now, in the next phase of the project, it’s time to explore […]
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No journalist has covered the climate story longer or better than Bill McKibben. In 1989, as a 27-year-old staff writer at The New Yorker, he published the first mass market book on the subject, The End of Nature. Since then, he has reported from around the world, covering all aspects of the issue — science, […]
Today’s non-stop news cycle makes it all too easy to lose sight of truly significant events, and last week’s climate ruling by the World Court is a striking example. “Landmark” and “historic” were two of the adjectives employed by the many news organizations covering the case, and those adjectives were warranted. “Landmark” because the ruling […]
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“You cough and it’s all black. Blackness in blackness.” So says a Palestinian man wearing a blue cotton Covid mask in “Toxic Fumes: Gaza Under Siege,” a six-minute video shot inside Gaza and presented on Al Jazeera English. The video is part of “Climate & War,” a series of eyewitness reports commissioned by Arab Reporters […]
Last Thursday, CNN ran a story that inadvertently underscored the fact that most journalism is still not getting across the full truth about climate change. Harry Enten, CNN’s polling analyst, displayed Gallup data showing that 40% of Americans are “greatly worried” about climate change. But this 40% is “the exact same percentage as [were worried] […]
The Democratic Party and the climate movement have been “too cautious and polite” and should instead be denouncing the fossil fuel industry’s “huge denial operation,” US senator Sheldon Whitehouse said in a sit down interview this week. “The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen,” […]
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When The Guardian, Agence France-Presse, and dozens more of the world’s leading news organizations began reporting the 89% story in April, it was because new peer-reviewed science had affirmed a potentially game-changing fact: Eighty to 89% of the world’s people think their governments should “do more” to tackle climate change. At a time when many […]