Belle de Jong, environment editor at The European Correspondent [1], recently posted on social media:
Climate journalism is shrinking, this recent Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard piece shows. CBS lost its entire climate desk, the Washington Post cut 74% of its climate team, and NPR laid off its climate desk editor. The Media and Climate Change Observatory’s 2025 year-end analysis showed a 38% reduction in global media’s climate coverage in 2025, since the high-water mark of 2021.
She then reverses the causality to state:
The decline in weekly climate news consumption was driven partly by reduced supply, rather than a lack of interest, the Reuters Institute’s 2025 report found. People are still interested in climate news, but newsrooms stopped supplying it.
de Jong then states what she wishes were true:
… Continue ReadingAll while climate change is changing our daily lives, from fatal heatwaves and floods to food prices and public health.
This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Unreliables (General):
Iron Law of Infrastructure
Climate change is real, but it is an unfortunate fact that renewables are useless
Wind Energy — Offshore:
Engineers studying a floating wind farm in the North Sea discovered it may be slowing the wind before it even reaches the blades
Nuclear Energy:
*** 5 states offer to accept nuclear waste
*** CGNP’s Advocacy for Diablo Canyon Extended Operations to 2045
Fossil Fuel Energy:
Energy Security and Climate Realism Usher in Coal’s Rise
When Will Upstate New York Claim What’s Theirs, Right Under Feet?…
Ed. note: Milton Friedman was born on this day 114 years ago. MasterResource celebrates his ideas and legacy each July 31st. This post presents an example that countless others with open minds can emulate in a time of political polarization.
“Instead of blaming bad leaders, we should first reflect on what we have done—or failed to fulfill our CITIZENSHIP—that allowed these people to gain power. Starting with reviewing Dr. Friedman’s concepts of ‘free enterprise’, could be a good first step of a thousand miles to go.” (Ruby Kamm, below)
On social media several years ago, Ruby Kamm described her ascent from Marxist indoctrination to understanding free-market capitalism. Coming to see the distinction between freedom and opportunity and crony political capitalism was important. Milton Friedman stands as the most influential economist and public advocate of economic freedom in the second half of the 20th century.…
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