Cross-posted from NextGen Journal This weekend, 10 000 young people converged in Washington, D.C. and protested the American government’s inaction on climate change. Students stood in front of government buildings wearing green hard hats, holding signs saying “Make Polluters Pay, Not the EPA”. Students stormed the House of Representatives and sang a song about climate [...]
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Where Activism Fails
Posted in Media and the Public, Mitigation and Policy, tagged climate change, communication, democracy, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, journalism, media, north america, politics, powershift, risk management, science, united states, vote, youth on April 20, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Technology as Communication
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, communication, education, environment, fate of the world, gaming, global warming, greenhouse gases, nasa, NOAA, penn state, science on March 8, 2011 | 42 Comments »
The relationship between technology and climate change is complex and multi-faceted. It was technology, in the form of fossil fuel combustion, that got us into this problem. Many uninformed politicians hold out hope that technology will miraculously save us in the future, so we can continue burning fossil fuels at our current rate. However, if [...]
The Real Story of Climategate
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged al gore, anthony watts, carbon dioxide, censorship, climate change, climategate, communication, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, cuccinelli, debate, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, inhofe, journalism, media, nasa, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic, sustainability, swifthack, united states on November 17, 2010 | 145 Comments »
A year ago today, an unidentified hacker published a zipped folder in several locations online. In this folder were approximately one thousand emails and three thousand files which had been stolen from the backup server of the Climatic Research Unit in the UK, a top centre for global temperature analysis and climate change studies. As [...]
Be Critical of Critics
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged american physical society, climate change, climategate, conspiracy, credibility, CRU, environment, fraud, global warming, lewis, media, scam, science, statements, united states on October 12, 2010 | 37 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal Of all the inane arguments made against the phenomenon of anthropogenic global climate change, the strangest – in my opinion – are the conspiracy theories. Yes, scientific fraud does happen, but on the scale of one author, not an entire multi-disciplinary field stretching back for over a century. Imagine the scale [...]
Ads Past and Present
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged advertising, cigarettes, climate change, communication, credibility, denial, environment, global warming, heartland institute, media, science, smoking, tobacco, tobacco institute, washington post on October 3, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Check out these unbelievable ads from the Tobacco Institute, which I found from the Tobacco Documents database. Click to enlarge.
Don’t Listen to the Newspapers
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged climate change, climategate, communication, credibility, CRU, education, environment, global warming, IPCC, journalism, media, science, sisters of our lady of the missions, sustainability on September 25, 2010 | 15 Comments »
This article of mine was published in the newsletter of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, a Catholic group that is doing a great deal of work in sustainability issues. Enjoy! The mainstream media portrays the existence of human-caused climate change as a much fiercer scientific debate than it actually is. Scientists are still [...]
10 Tips for Journalists Writing about Climate Change
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, communication, credibility, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, journalism, media, quote, science, youth on August 26, 2010 | 9 Comments »
This list could be applied to any area of science. I chose climate science because it’s what I’m interested in, and because its reporting is the most obviously abysmal at present. Try to get hired as a specialized science reporter. It might not be as cost-effective for a media outlet as having general reporters cover [...]
The Applause Continues
Posted in Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged climate change, drought, environment, flood, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, journalism, media, moscow, new york times, pakistan, russia, science on August 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The New York Times deserves a clap too. Thanks to toby and Eli for the hat tip. An article just as good as the Associated Press piece made the front page of the New York Times. Justin Gillis wrote In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming, and, as Eli pointed out, there wasn’t even [...]
The Associated Press Gets it Right
Posted in Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged arctic, associated press, china, climate change, drought, environment, floods, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hanley, IPCC, journalism, media, moscow, pakistan, russia, schmidt, science, sea ice, wildfires on August 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It’s been quite the summer. Moscow has experienced several months of weather more akin to Texas, and is literally burning up. Floods in China have killed more than a thousand and left countless others displaced. Pakistan has experienced similar floods due to a massive monsoon season, and now they have to deal with cholera, too. [...]
Global Surface Temperature Change
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged arctic, climate change, climategate, communication, credibility, CRU, education, environment, global temperature, global warming, greenhouse effect, hansen, hockey stick, journalism, nasa, risk management, science, swifthack, united states, urban heat island effect on August 9, 2010 | 14 Comments »
I really enjoyed reading “Global Surface Temperature Change“, by James Hansen and his team at GISS. Keep in mind that it’s still in the draft stages – they haven’t submitted to a journal yet, but they certainly plan to, and it’s a very credible team of scientists that will almost definitely get it published. The [...]
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