Language
Heatflation, overshoot, soup throwers: Grist’s picks for words of the year
10 terms and phrases that defined our sweltering climate in 2022.
Read MoreThe fossil fuel origins of ‘gaslighting’
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is all about deception. Guess where it comes from?
Read MoreIt’s not just Coca-Cola: Corporations have co-opted the UN climate talks
COP27 is covered with logos. But that’s just the start of companies’ influence.
Read More‘It makes climate change real’: How carbon emissions got rebranded as ‘pollution’
California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it’s federal law.
Read MoreHow a 50-year-old PR strategy influenced the Supreme Court’s EPA decision
E. Bruce Harrison developed the “Three Es” in the 1970s. Now the framing is everywhere.
Read MoreSummer has transformed into ‘danger season,’ scientists warn
Hurricanes, heat, fires, smoke, drought: Is it time to stop sugar-coating summer?
Read MoreTrue costs: How the oil industry cast climate policy as an economic burden
For 30 years, the debate has largely ignored the soaring costs of inaction.
Read MoreHere’s the ‘energy transition’ needed to stave off climate catastrophe
And it’s not the one oil executives had in mind.
Read MoreThe massive disconnect between Big Oil’s words and actions, in data
A new study illustrates fossil fuel companies’ greenwashing agenda.
Read MorePR worked for Big Oil. So can it work for climate action?
The scholar Melissa Aronczyk sees dangers in borrowing from the PR playbook.
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