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1. November 1, 2012 01:00 PM

   Bad hippie!

   Is it wrong to ‘scold’ exaggerations about climate and weather?

   By Curtis Brainard

   David Roberts has a long essay over at Grist complaining about "scolds" (The New York Times’s Andrew Revkin, in particular) who criticize others for making too much of the link between climate change and extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy. Roberts’s commentary jumps off from a self-reflective post by Revkin about whether he is guilty of what one of his...

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2. November 1, 2012 06:50 AM

   Embeddable Sandy content

   Google and WNYC created free, shareable media

   By Hazel Sheffield

   One of the most useful bits of embeddable content being passed around in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy is this Transit Tracker, created by WNYC, that shows which New York City trains and buses are running and when to expect the next updates. WNYC provides the html code behind the content to make the tracker embeddable on other sites. That...

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3. November 6, 2012 11:00 AM

   Lemmings like us

   Businessweek’s climate-change broadside is powerful, but ignores the allure of waterfront property

   By Curtis Brainard

   Hurricane Sandy finally got the media talking about climate change last week, but Bloomberg Businessweek spoke the loudest with a bold, red cover that featured a picture of a flooded New York City street and the words, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid,” in big, black letters above it. As the cyclone spun up the eastern seaboard, I warned against making overstatements...

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4. October 31, 2012 07:35 AM

   MSM: port in a storm

   And social media was not as useful as I’d thought it’d be

   By Dean Starkman

   Sandy was the first natural disaster I can remember experiencing not as a reporter but as Joe Reader/Viewer. (I’ve only reported on a few: the 1989 SF earthquake a few days after the fact; Hurricane Bob in 1991, which was something of a non-event; 9/11, and maybe a couple of others. I was out of town for Irene). In...

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5. October 29, 2012 05:24 PM

   Newsrooms’ digital Sandy coverage

   Outlets are pulling out all the stops

   By Hazel Sheffield

   Several big news services have put public service ahead of profit by doing away with their paywalls for the duration of Hurricane Sandy. The New York Times allowed unlimited sitewide access from Sunday afternoon, and spokeswoman Eileen Murphy told Poynter that the paywall would not be reinstated until the weather emergency is over. The Wall Street Journal and Newsday have...

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6. October 30, 2012 04:15 PM

   Sandy’s climate context

   Why generalizing about extreme weather helps no one

   By Curtis Brainard

   It should come as no surprise that as Hurricane Sandy spiraled up the eastern seaboard, a variety of media outlets sought to explain the so-called super storm’s relationship to climate change. A few did well, but generalizations about extreme weather continue to mar this type of coverage. Take Rebecca Leber’s attempt to bash the press for ignoring climate change at...

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