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Apocalypse mashup

Posted in Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , on September 18, 2014 | 1 Comment »

This week’s theme in my “Environmental Literature, Arts, & Media” class is apocalyptic rhetoric. (I’m loosely following Greg Garrard’s list of tropes in Ecocriticism, but adding, amplifying, and amending to be more artistically inclusive.) Because it’s a fun topic (and deadly serious, too), I thought I’d post a few of the videos we’ve been watching […]

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Climate denial’s “dark money” smoke machine

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, Science & society, tagged , on February 3, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Since I was traveling at the time, I failed to note an interesting story that got covered in the science press about the organizational support and funding behind the climate denial movement. As reported in articles in Scientific American, The Guardian, and elsewhere, a recent peer-reviewed study published in Climatic Science by sociologist Robert Brulle […]

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Some mean temperatures…

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged , , , on January 29, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Not that readers of this blog need to be reminded of this, but some of our friends might (if you have friends like Donald Trump)… Generalizing about global climate change from a cold snap is like predicting who will win the world series based on a single ball or strike in pre-season. The two things […]

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