The Politics of Fear

Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a "special edition" New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, extreme flooding, and other lethal effects of global warming within the next few decades. The most alarming thing about it: the news came from an official City report.

Fake New York Post: http://www.nypost-se.com/
Video News Release: http://www.nypost-se.com/video
City report on climate change: http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/2009/NPCC_CRI.pdf
Wake-up call: http://www.tcktcktck.org/wakeup

The Black Arts of Coal and Crude – Forgery and fakery send democracy to the pits
The big players in the energy business have plenty of ways of getting their message across. They fund fancy think tanks, make campaign contributions to sympathetic politicians, hire lobbyists, and buy ads.

But now, they’ve gone a step further. They’ve forged letters to members of Congress, using the letterhead of real grassroots citizen groups.

World leaders gather in New York and Pittsburgh with climate change high on agenda. UN and G20 offer venues for discussion of pressing climate change issues.