Some Romm Gems

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Joe Romm offers Some Romm Gems (my name for it, he calls it a clip show), i.e., what he thinks are the best posts at Climate Progress during 2006:

Meanwhile, Amy Gahran, freelancer, media consultant, Liveblogging from the 2007 Conference Society of Environmental Journalists, cited by Web-savvy journalist and editor Emily Gertz in “Toward a New Journalism” suggests, “You’d better all be delivering in mobile, and Mandarin!”

And, in the greater interests of scientific journalism, this blog would suggest one small, really a very minor, change. Instead of referring to the UNFCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), as in the following statement from Globalization and Climate Change:

This is where globalization has set up roadblocks. Mitigating climate change and achieving stabilization of greenhouse gas atmospheric concentrations — the objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (U.N.F.C.C.C.) — will require deep reductions in global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. This is possible only if developing countries have unrestricted access to clean energy technologies.

Perhaps, it might be more aspirational, if not downright Homeric1, to refer to it as the United nations Report on a Framework for Understanding Climate Change in this Decade.

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