Limits of language in climate change debate

Yes. Leads to gaming??

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/are-words-worthless-in-the-climate-fight/

Death of Enviornmentalism

http://thebreakthrough.org/archive/the_long_death_of_environmenta

Assign reading?

Reframing, rewording

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/us/politics/02enviro.html?_r=0

reading assignment

Fear tactic failing

http://www.globalchangeblog.com/2010/03/climate-communication-is-fear-collective-action-a-winning-strategy/

Reading assignment idea.

Threats to Norfolk

Quartz: The ocean is swallowing up Virginia so rapidly that its leaders are forgetting to bicker about climate change. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw6-ndnx8

Great stats summarizing threats to Norfolk VA, indicating it's one of the most threatened in the US.

Both sides have their faults

http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/timothy-p.-carney-yes-the-climate-is-changing.-now-shut-up-and-be-reasonable/article/2549273

Doesn't explain the claims it forwards but adequately shows gaps in claims made on each side of the debate.

Storm surge is the enemy, and SLR and Subsidence its accomplices.

http://qz.com/228284/the-ocean-is-swallowing-up-virginia-so-rapidly-that-its-leaders-are-forgetting-to-bicker-about-climate-change/

A quick synopsis of Norfolk's problems and the impact on the nation as a whole, this article does a good job of showing the worst-case scenario with all three factors at their scariest levels: subsidence, storm surge, and sea-level rise. It's main point: Norfolk is slowly becoming more and more susceptible to storm surge (the real threat).
A touch of neener-neener politics..., makes me wonder how the right would report this. Would they call it a committee on frequent flooding rather than sea level rise?