Future:Media:Change

Blogger and prediction expert, Nate Silver is in Copenhagen to cover the UN Climate Change Conference.
Nate rose to blog prominence, or “bloginence,” for his startling accurate predictions of the 2008 election on FiveThirtyEight (538 is the number of electors in the US electoral college). Having conquered baseball prediction models and election polling, Nate has set his sights climate change. He issued a bold and brilliant challenge to climate change skeptics this summer:
The rules of the challenge are as follows:
1. For each day that the high temperature in your hometown is at …

As two of the Future Media Change team sit on couches at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the decision for the Future Media Change Campaign of Month Award, seems to be an obvious choice.
Jason, drum-roll please.
After impressing us with their spunky attitude and get up and go, Canada’s Moms Against Climate Change is the first winner of our Campaign of the Month Award. Congratulations.
Why did we like you so much, a few reasons;

A edgy campaigns video that got people talking, and enabled a conversation to a wider …

As world leaders struggle to decide how best to deal with climate change in Copenhagen, deniers of human’s impact on the environment are going full tilt to move the conversation off target. Mother Jones expertly outlines the 12 worst of the worst organizations who spend millions trying to convince the general public that climate change is a natural phenomenon.

Ads from Greenpeace and the TckTckTck coalition blanket Copenhagen International Airport featuring world leaders apologizing for their failure to act on climate change. The ads show aged leaders in 2020 with the text, “I’m sorry. We could’ve stopped catostrophic climate change…we didn’t.”

COP15 guests are being offered free sex if they produce a city council ‘no sex’ postcard.

Oxfam Australia, has taken a quintessentially Australian approach to their climate campaign, humour. By cutting up previous speeches made by the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, they have developed a tool that enables you to make your own version of his climate change speech and then share it amongst your friends.

Copenhagen is almost here and the news will be fast and furious. News organizations and climate campaigners have created hub sites, power rankings and Facebook fan pages to help you keep track of the UN Climate Conference mayhem.