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Josh Stearns, Free Press: A complex mix of structural and cultural factors has affected climate-change coverage in the US. The forces that shape US media have not been kind to environmental reporting.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14893-the-crisis-in-climate-change-coverage



US Climate Bomb Is Ticking: What the Gas Industry Doesn t Want You to Know

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout: There is another climate bomb in the United States, shale gas hydraulic fracking, which emits methane, more dangerous than CO2. While many rhetorically call natural gas a bridge to the clean energy future, new information is showing the opposite.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14958-us-climate-bomb-is-ticking-what-the-gas-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know



Injection Well Linked to Destructive Earthquake in Oklahoma, Raising New Fracking Fears

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Geologists are reporting an uptick in minor earthquakes across the country linked to fracking, specifically with the injection of waste fluids in known seismic faults.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15412-injection-well-linked-to-destructive-earthquake-in-oklahoma-raising-new-fracking-fears

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Climate Change as History s Deal-Breaker

Can You Organize Against the Apocalypse?

By Tom Engelhardt

In the ''extreme weather,'' which so regularly leads the TV news, its effects are coming closer to us all. Increasing numbers of us know, in our hearts, that it s the real deal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34169.htm

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Will 'Angry Summer' Report Finally Crack Australian Media s 'Climate Silence'?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/07-6

Why Climate Change Matters: A Three-Minute Analogy
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/03/14



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