I’m sick of all the politics surrounding climate science. I wish it could go back to just being science, the way it was in the 1970s, without all these people trying to sabotage it for us. I wish we could concentrate on the joy and fascination we feel when we learn about the climate system, [...]
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Priorities
Posted in Musings, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, journalism, media, politics, quote, science, swifthack on September 6, 2010 | 17 Comments »
What Kevin Trenberth Has to Say
Posted in Interviews, tagged climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, debate, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, journalism, media, ncar, science, skeptic, swifthack, trenberth, united states on August 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »
A comment from Steve Bloom several months ago got me thinking about a new kind of post that would be a lot of fun: interviewing top climate scientists, both on their research and their views of climate science journalism and communication. When I emailed Dr. Kevin Trenberth to see if he would be interested in [...]
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 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. [...]
Stephen Schneider – Rest in Peace
Posted in News and Reports, tagged climate change, communication, global warming, greenhouse gases, ice age, IPCC, media, schneider, science on July 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday the world lost a great man, a gifted scientist, and a wonderful communicator. Stephen Schneider has died unexpectedly at the age of 65. Ironically, after battling with a rare form of lymphoma and winning, Dr. Schneider succumbed to a heart attack as his plane landed in London yesterday morning. He was on his way [...]
So What Happened with ClimateGate?
Posted in News and Reports, tagged climate change, climategate, copenhagen, CRU, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, IPCC, jones, journalism, mann, media, nasa, science, swifthack, UEA, uk on July 11, 2010 | 36 Comments »
Remember back in December, when the news was buzzing each day about the stolen emails from top climate researchers? They were described as “the final nail in the coffin of anthropogenic global warming”, or worse. Apparently, the scientists had written things that severely compromised the underpinnings for the idea that human activity was causing the [...]
A Quick Poll
Posted in Musings, Reviews, tagged climate change, communication, credibility, environment, global warming, IPCC, literature, media, science, weart on July 4, 2010 | 23 Comments »
I really enjoy books about climate change. When you’re as new to the subject as I am, they’re a great way to catch up on what is now common knowledge in the climate science community, and thus hasn’t been discussed recently in the peer-reviewed literature. I suppose I could also read the entire IPCC report [...]
The Discovery of Global Warming
Posted in Reviews, tagged arrhenius, carbon dioxide, climate change, credibility, environment, fourier, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, ice age, IPCC, journalism, keeling, media, politics, risk management, science, weart on May 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A common remark I make about climate change books I like is that “it wasn’t like a textbook”. I like non-fiction books that I can carry around and read cover-to-cover just like I would a novel. I like them to draw me in and catch my interest as if they were a suspenseful PD James [...]
A Must-Read Letter to Science
Posted in News and Reports, tagged agreement, canada, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, leake, media, NAS, politics, risk management, science, united states on May 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I must say that I feel proud of the mainstream media when CBC News picks this up before any of the blogs I read. A letter to be published in tomorrow’s edition of Science, defending the integrity of climate science and calling for an end to “McCarthy-like threats” to scientists, has been signed by 225 [...]
A Better Credibility Spectrum
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged al gore, climate change, credibility, global warming, IPCC, media, nasa, politics, risk management, science on April 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It’s been over a year since I wrote The Credibility Spectrum, my first post ever. Since then I’ve learned a lot, and have altered the credibility spectrum in my own mind – so I thought I’d alter it here, too. This credibility spectrum is sort of split into two: the scientific community, and the non-scientific [...]
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