Cross-posted from NextGen Journal “That’s some global warming”, Fox News proudly announced. “Rare winter storm dumps several inches of snow across South.” It’s cold outside, and/or it’s snowing, so therefore global warming can’t be happening. Impeccable logic, or rampant misconception? It happened last winter, and again so far this season: unusual snow and extreme cold [...]
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Snowstorms and Sea Ice
Posted in Science Lessons, tagged arctic, asia, climate change, cold, environment, europe, global warming, greenhouse effect, media, NAO, science, sea ice, snow, united states, winter on January 11, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Merchants of Doubt
Posted in Reviews, tagged acid rain, bill nierenberg, climate change, cold war, conway, DDT, denial, environment, frederick seitz, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, media, oreskes, ozone depletion, politics, robert jastrow, s. fred singer, science, SDI, secondhand smoke, smoking, star wars, tobacco, united states on January 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I waited a long time to read this book – in retrospect, too long. I have long been a fan of Naomi Oreskes; I believe she is a brilliant and sensible scientist with a compelling way with words. On the other hand, nothing depresses me more quickly than reading about those who deliberately spread confusion [...]
An Unlikely Priority
Posted in News and Reports, tagged carbon dioxide, cbc, climate change, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, journalism, media, nature, polar bears, science, wildlife on December 17, 2010 | 9 Comments »
A small news splash surfaced this week over a recent paper in Nature, regarding the prospects for Arctic sea ice and, consequently, polar bear populations. Until this paper was published, studies had only examined business-as-usual scenarios. We didn’t really know whether or not, if we pursued aggressive mitigation, it would be too late to save the polar [...]
The Nature of Scientific Consensus
Posted in How Science Works, tagged agreement, cancun, carbon dioxide, climate change, copenhagen, credibility, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, media, politics, risk management, science on December 1, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal It is common for one to fail to grasp the difference between “consensus” and “unanimity”. A consensus does not require agreement from absolutely every member involved. Rather, it is a more general measure of extremely high agreement, high enough to accept and base decisions on. It’s stronger than a majority-rules style [...]
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 [...]
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 »
“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 [...]
Odds and Ends
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged alda, climate change, communication, denial, education, environment, giss, global warming, hansen, human rights, journalism, kennedy, mckibben, media, nasa, NCDC, politics, republican, science on October 18, 2010 | 16 Comments »
I must thank Michael Tobis for two pieces of reading that his blog recently pointed me to. First, a fantastic article by Bill McKibben, which everyone should print out and stick to their fridge. Here’s a taste: Read the comments on one of the representative websites: Global warming is a “fraud” or a “plot.” Scientists [...]
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 [...]
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