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for those who are interested but couldn't join our live event January 31, here is the recording: youtube.com/watch?v=h3usZ0… thanks to CIRES Center for Social and Environmental Futures CU Boulder 🦬 NUS @CiresEO Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) the Boulder Faculty Assembly & International Polar Foundation for making this possible.


New research from Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) team members, check it out!


Our topical collection on social science & sustainability technology, edited by Leaf Van Boven & myself is out. Intro here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Papers here: link.springer.com/collections/fa… Great contributors incl. Max Boykoff Jonathan D Moyer Gernot Wagner @SGonzalezCoffin & many more!

“The world has never been closer to breaching the 1.5C (2.7F) global heating limit, even if only temporarily" warns United Nations World Meteorological Organization, noting "2023 was the hottest year on record by a clear margin" buff.ly/4cywVW2 by Ajit Niranjan The Guardian

That's a wrap on the 2024 Inside the Greenhouse climate comedy live event! Thanks Chuck Nice Rollie Williams Kasha Patel, Creative Climate Communication student performers & everyone who joined Boulder Theater STAY TUNED: the 2024 show to post soon➡️youtube.com/channel/UCK9vo…





16/16 “The stories that regional papers like The Yorkshire Post choose to cover may have tremendous influence" said Dr Max Boykoff, Director of @mediaclimate. Read more, exclusively for @NowThenMag nowthenmagazine.com/articles/yorks…

there's a lot at stake up and down the ballots in the upcoming USA November 2024 elections: buff.ly/4fNh6w7 by David Gelles @NYtimes "many of the down-ballot races will also be consequential in determining how fast the United States transitions away from fossil fuels"

coverage is cooling while the planet is heating: new Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) updates from Sept 2024 coverage of #climatechange & #globalwarming US print & TV coverage compared to a year earlier: - print down 17% - TV coverage dropped 50% find more details here➡️ sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/icecaps/resear…

we in CIRES are hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Environmental Change, Health & Well-Being (Open Rank, Tenure/Tenure-track) with tenure home dept in Department of Sociology CU Boulder, Department of Geography, CU Boulder or CUBoulderENVS = share with potential applicants! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…


new research finds that NGO #Facebook posts on climate change "with an affective component—positive or threat-based—are most likely to be associated with greater levels of engagement" buff.ly/3NPXCu3 by Hart, Lauren Feldman, Choi, Chinn & Hiaeshutter-Rice #ScholarSunday

Each of the past 8 years, our Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) team publishes a report on the previous year's media coverage of climate change. We began in 2007 & we've monitored coverage over 25 years in outlets worldwide. Watch for our retrospective early next week! sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/icecaps/resear…

the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) 2024 review of media coverage of climate change or global warming is coming soon! sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/icecaps/resear… among headline findings: · 2024 coverage dropped 16% from 2023 at the global level · 2024 levels ranked 7th in 21 years of monitoring at the global level

Passionate about using humor to tackle serious issues? InsideTheGreenhouse is offering you a chance to earn up to $750 with an engaging comedic climate video! 🎭 Get the details and send in your submission (up to 2 min in length) by the Feb. 24 deadline: docs.google.com/document/d/15Z… 👀


Our Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) (MeCCO) team just released Jan2025 counts & monthly explainer: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/issu… KEY TAKEAWAYS compared to Dec2024 levels: - international print coverage ⬆️27% - international wire service coverage ⬆️40% - US print coverage ⬆️60% - US TV coverage ⬆️168%
