I am Alex White, a progressive campaign strategist, writer, social marketer and policy activist.
David Spratt co-author of Climate Code Red has written a series of posts about the collective failings of the climate movement and political parties to respond to the urgent threat posed by catastrophic climate change. Chiefly to blame — according to Spratt — are the “bright siders” of the climate movement, who offer a positive [...]
The Centre for Policy Development has kindly published my Thinking Point on how we can understand China’s carbon emissions conundrum. Alexander White tackles two issues that seem too hard for our political system to handle: China and climate change. China’s response to climate change has shaped the course of climate negotiations. They were accused of [...]
I wrote a few months ago that in the United States, TV weathermen are increasingly skeptical about climate change, while at the same time being highly trusted on the issue by the public. This is despite many TV weathermen not having a degree relating to their on-screen activities (the days of meteorologists being hired by [...]
A new report shows that carbon emissions from the Arctic have increased dramatically: ARCTIC emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas jumped 30 per cent in recent years in a worrying hint that global warming might unlock vast stores frozen in permafrost, scientists say. The 30.6 per cent rise in emissions from the Arctic from 2003-2007, [...]
Columbia Journalism Review reports a worrying fact: a significant number of US weathermen on TV believe climate change is a scam, and two thirds of Americans trust weathermen for information about climate change. Coleman’s crusade caught the eye of Kris Wilson, an Emory University journalism lecturer and a former TV news director and weatherman himself, [...]