“Climate change journalism has gotten worse,” says Dr. Ben Santer, researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and one of the world’s top scientists studying the attribution of climate change. The decline in the quality and accuracy of climate change coverage over the years is quite a paradox. Surely, now that this issue [...]
Posts Tagged ‘jones’
What Ben Santer Has to Say
Posted in Interviews, tagged ben santer, climate change, climategate, communication, education, environment, global warming, jones, journalism, media, science, swifthack on October 24, 2010 | 104 Comments »
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 [...]
Mind the Gap
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, debate, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, jones, leake, media, politics, quote, risk management, science, sustainability, swifthack on April 11, 2010 | 28 Comments »
This is the script of a presentation I will make to several groups of high school students on Earth Day. I was originally going to use the same script from my PowerShift presentation, but in light of recent developments and my ever-expanding thoughts on climate change, I decided to create an entirely new presentation. I [...]
What The Press Should Cover, and Won’t
Posted in Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged britain, censorship, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, debate, global warming, hockey stick, house of commons, IPCC, jones, media, science, statements, swifthack on March 30, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The first of three investigations into the CRU emails has been released. You can read the British House of Commons’ entire report here, but I found the summary on page 7 to be just as useful. In part, it reads: We believe that the focus on CRU and Professor Phil Jones, Director of CRU, in particular, [...]
Freedom of Information
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged censorship, climate change, climategate, CRU, debate, denial, FOIA, global warming, hansen, hockey stick, jones, media, santer, schmidt, science, skeptic on March 7, 2010 | 14 Comments »
The only real issue that the hacked CRU emails brought up, the only allegation that didn’t fall apart if you were familiar with the literature (*cough cough hide the decline*), was the failure of Phil Jones to respond to some of the FOI (Freedom of Information) requests. This looks bad on the surface, and it [...]