“When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayMeanLongMadeStoriesBigsPayAttentionClearToo MuchSeaIceSwingsRetreatOne DirectionLong StoryVariability Author:Andrew Revkin
“I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.” I CanReasonStoriesHateAttentionRiskMediaFitEnvironmentalJournalismReason WhyConventionalNormAdequate Author:Andrew Revkin
“Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story, meaning it's Us and Them, instead of what it is: this profound challenge we face given our energy norms right now, the fuels of convenience toward something new. No matter what the politics are, it's still an enormous transformation that has to take place.” FeelsStillsMatterStoriesFacesPoliticalEnergyGivenStuffChallengesRight NowTransformationNo Matter WhatProfoundEnormousFuelGlobal WarmingSomething NewNormConveniencePoisoningChallenges We Face Author:Andrew Revkin
