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The MTA’s Climate Change Dilemma: How Do You Plug A Million Holes? | Village Voice

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Neil deMause

On the corner of Franklin and Varick streets in Tribeca, kitty-corner from the Ghostbusters firehouse, sits a prototype of the main weapon in the MTA’s war against water.It looks like a normal subway entrance, except the railing at the back … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, New York City, Subways

Five NYC Parks to Visit Before They’re Under Water (Village Voice)

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Neil deMause

New York is a city that likes to forget it’s surrounded by water. Each spring, as the sidewalks thaw and we re-emerge, blinking, into the natural world, there are plenty of opportunities to rediscover the city’s ample waterfront: New York … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Parks

Sandy and Climate (Extra!)

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Neil deMause

Hurricane Sandy may be remembered not only as the most powerful storm ever to strike the Eastern seaboard, but also as the moment when a large segment of the U.S. media first allowed itself to say the words “climate change” … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Hurricanes, Media Crit

The Fires This Time (Extra!)

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Neil deMause

How the news media dealt with — or failed to — the links between this spring’s severe weather and climate change: On April 14, a massive storm swept down out of the Rocky Mountains into the Midwest and South, spawning … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Media Crit

Now online: It’s the Politics, Stupid (Extra!)

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Neil deMause

My Extra! magazine article on how U.S. media coverage of last fall’s elections ignored climate policy, previously print-only, is now online for free: You can read it here in its entirety, no tree-killing or money-spending necessary. (Though FAIR could certainly … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Media Crit

It’s the Politics, Stupid (Extra!)

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Neil deMause

I have an article in the February issue of Extra! on how the U.S. news media largely ignored Republicans’ climate-change-denial rhetoric in the runup to last November’s elections, despite the fact that it could have huge consequences for the fate … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Media Crit

Sidelining Cap and Trade’s Green Critics (Extra!)

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Neil deMause

In an analysis of media coverage of the cap-and-trade climate legislation, I compare it to reporting on the health care bill, noting that in both cases journalists omitted any mention of criticism that the bills were too weak. And perfect … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Media Crit

The bad news on the global climate disaster

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Neil deMause

As if I weren’t worried enough about the fate of the world, I picked up the Times today and read this in what was meant to be an optimistic report on how global carbon emissions have fallen as a result … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change

The Heat Is On to Fix Our Climate (Metro NY)

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Neil deMause

Concern about global climate change isn’t actually doing much yet to forestall disaster: Remember global warming? It seems like only yesterday that we were watching bits of Antarctica flake off into the ocean — not to mention even less-gripping sights, … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Op-eds

Food supply paying price of climate change (Metro NY)

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Neil deMause

When my editor at Metro suggested I write my column this week about Earth Day, my first response was “What about it?” Then I remembered the bagel crisis: Tomorrow is Earth Day, which means you’re likely to hear a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Op-eds

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