Daily Climate Links: 4/26/2016

Climate Feedback Keeps Mainstream Media in Check, Seeks Funding on IndieGoGo. BigThink.

Climate change shouldn't be a divisive issue. There's an overwhelming amount of evidence showing our climate is warming due to human activity. Yet, one in two Americans don't believe climate change is caused by human activity. Part of this is due to misinformation spread through the mainstream media.

Campaigners call on fossil fuel bosses to properly back Paris Agreement. Business Green.

More than 75 civil society organisations have today published an open letter to the chairs of the world's largest publicly listed oil companies urging them to publicly endorse the goals of the Paris Agreement and ensure measures to keep temperature increases well below 2C are placed at the heart of their business plans.

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Today's letter... argues the industry now needs to do more to ensure it remains compatible with the temperature goals set out in the Paris Agreement. 

"In advance of COP21, the majority of you signed a letter to delegates in which you said 'For us to do more, we need governments across the world to provide us with clear, stable, long-term, ambitious policy frameworks'," the letter states. "The historic agreement now being ratified delivers that policy framework. We now know that to limit climate change to below 2C, the majority of coal, gas and oil reserves must not be used... We have very little time but with united efforts across society, an increase in investment and with your company playing its part, the world can reach the Paris goal of a zero carbon economy."

Mitsubishi admits it has been cheating fuel efficiency data for 25 years. Sydney Morning Herald.

VW Presentation in ’06 Showed How to Foil Emissions Tests. New York Times.