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Monthly Archives: September 2018
A Laughing Matter? Confronting Climate Change Through Humor
by Maxwell Boykoff and Bth Osnes Political Geography September 2018 Abstract: Why fuse climate change and comedy? Anthropogenic climate change is one of the most prominent and existential challenges of the 21st century. Consequently, public discourses typically consider climate change as … Continue reading
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Forests of the Future: Why Private Landowners are a Key Piece of the Climate Challenge
by Angela Boag Angela Boag is a PhD Candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder investigating the relationships between climate change, forest management and land ownership. She is the 2018 recipient of the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy. Angela … Continue reading
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Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance Town Hall
On September 6, the City of Boulder, the University of Colorado and the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance hosted a local climate action town hall. At the event, representatives from cities including Copenhagen, Rio de Janeiro, Melbourne, New York City, Oslo … Continue reading
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Pushing Boundaries: Grad Students Think Like Barn Swallows to Craft an Artistic Nesting Site
CU Boulder Today September 5, 2018 For hundreds of years, barn swallows have signaled the coming of spring. In many cultures, it is considered good luck to have barn swallows build nests on a person’s property. Artifacts depicting barn swallows … Continue reading
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MeCCO Monthly Summary: Morrison Installed, Clean Power Plan Uninstalled
Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) August 2018 Summary In addition, North American coverage was up 27% in August, due primarily to media attention paid to the mid-month proposal by the US Trump Administration to replace the Clean Power Plan … Continue reading
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Dan Rather Claims that Global Warming ‘Rarely Tops the Headlines’
The Daily Caller August 30, 2018 News anchor Dan Rather said global warming is “causing real damage and death” in a tweet excoriating the media for supposedly ignoring “one of the most important stories of our time.” But is it … Continue reading
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Into the Wild – For Rain | Part I. British Columbia
National Geographic, August 2018 by Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley CSTPR Faculty Affiliate, National Geographic Explorer and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder The American Cordillera is a jigsaw of mountain ranges that curls southward from the Alaskan coast … Continue reading →