Publication Items

Wikileaks Cables Confirm Secret US-China Climate Talks [1]

The massive trove of diplomatic cables disclosed by Wikileaks disclosed one of the Obama administration's darkest environmental secrets — that the U.S. held secret diplomatic talks on climate change during the run-up to the December 2009 Copenhagen meeting.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [3]
Climate Change [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Asia [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Media’s Coverage of “Cap-and-Trade” May Forecast Future Climate Politics [8]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Politics [3]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Media’s Coverage of “Cap-and-Trade” May Forecast Future Climate Politics [8]
House GOP Staff Meet with Energy Lobbyists Behind Closed Doors [10]

Politico broke the story of a January 18, 2011, meeting between House and Senate GOP aides and energy industry lobbyists to map out strategy for handcuffing President Obama and EPA on climate regulations.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [11]
Government [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Climate Change [4]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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After Rough Start, Radio Story on Green Architecture Turns into Award Winner [14]

Reporter Jason Margolis skillfully illustrates the relationship between built spaces and climate change issues by spotlighting two proactive architects and their environmentally friendly buildings in Toronto, Canada and Mexico City for Public Radio International's program "The World." SEJournal’s Bill Dawson has the "Inside Story."

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Planning & Growth [16]
Region:
Canada [17]
Mexico [18]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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CIA Forms Semi-Secret Unit on Climate and Security [19]

Is it a security risk for the American public to find out the risks presented by climate change? A recent story on the Central Intelligence Agency's Center on Climate Change and National Security by the Medill National Security Reporting Project was noteworthy in that all of its sources were unnamed.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [12]
Climate Change [4]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about CIA Forms Semi-Secret Unit on Climate and Security [19]
Ex-CIA Spook Stalks Climate Scientist Mann [20]

A man claiming to be an ex-CIA agent is telling people they may stand to get rich if only they could come up with some dirt on scientist Michael Mann, author of the famous hockey-stick graph that shows the earth getting warm suddenly in recent years. No luck so far.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [21]
Climate Change [4]
Activism [22]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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A Smear Campaign Against Jane Mayer After Koch Exposé? [23]

The media blog Gawker thinks it has uncovered a campaign to discredit the New Yorker writer after her August 2010 story on billionaires Charles and David H. Koch, who have secretly funded attacks on government regulations and bankrolled efforts to discredit settled climate science.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [24]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Science [21]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Cancun Roundup: A Modest Deal's a Deal (Updated) [25]

"Negotiators from about 190 countries reached a modest set of agreements early Saturday in Cancun on how to tackle global warming but punted some of the most controversial questions for a later date." Here's a roundup of the news, analysis, and reaction from some major international news organizations.
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Region:
International [26]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Global Study Shows Large Lakes Are Warming [27]

NASA researchers have found the 104 selected lakes are warming by an average of 0.81 degrees Fahrenheit each decade (with some lakes increasing by up to 1.8 degrees F), and the temperature increase tends to be larger as you work toward the North Pole.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [28]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [29]
Environmental Studies [30]
Climate Change [4]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Study: Fish Are Getting Whipsawed by People, Climate Change [31]

Arizona State University researchers find a major shift in top fish predators in 36 North American waterways, resulting in reduced availability of fish caught for food or sport, and long-term changes in riparian ecology that affect both people and the rest of the environment, sometimes in unpredictable ways.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [28]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [29]
Food [32]
Climate Change [4]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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