What Was That About?
The climate debate, with all its rivalries, melodramatic clashes, and endless reprisals, often resembles a modern-day
Posts Under ‘climate change’ Category
Reinforcing an Anti-Science Narrative
Last month, when Jon Huntsman criticized his fellow Republican Presidential candidates for spreading malarky about evolution and climate change, conservatives, by and large, looked away. So it is a curious thing that many commentators on the Right are now jumping all over Michelle Bachmann for her “dangerous flirtation” with the anti-vaccine crowd. Orac has a…Continue Reading…
A New Narrative is Born
Over at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, I ask how reporters and bloggers can most responsibly handle the climate/weather connections while the evidence is still being gathered and interpreted. Check it out and offer your suggestions over there.
A Silver Bullet?
I can’t remember the last time I stood in a room full of people concerned about climate change that was so full of optimism. That would be the launch party of a new foundation devoted to promoting the advancement of thorium. Why would we want that? The idea is to create a new generation of…Continue Reading…
The Press Makes for an Easy Punching Bag
My latest post at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media is on the bipartisan press bashing habit. Have a look and flog me over there.
Climate Movement is Not Ready for Primetime
Here’s one reason why, drily put by Matthew Yglesias: I keep meaning to write something about the Tar Sands Action protests that had been going on by the White House and then I keep forgetting. That’s pretty much been my excuse, too. The point being, it didn’t live up to the hype. Yglesias goes on to explain…Continue Reading…
Tackling the Climate Attribution Puzzle
In Nature this week, Quirin Schiermeier has written the most lucid, evenhanded article I’ve read yet on the vexing issue of extreme weather/climate change attribution. He also reports on some notable developments. For example, Quirin writes that in the past year, climate researchers in the United States and Britain have formed a loose coalition under…Continue Reading…
Editor Resignation Roils Climate Waters
Hop on over to the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, where I have a post on the big story dominating the climate blogosphere these past few days. Staring today, I’ll be blogging for the Yale Forum several times a week and will link to those posts from here when they go up. UPDATE:…Continue Reading…
The Tao of Climate Communication
I’m not sure there is such a thing, but it’s probably good to know what your objective is. In this contentious thread, perspectives ran the gamut. One commenter observed: As difficult it is in this era of “Tea Baggers vs Marxists”, “Denialists vs. Warmistas”, “Conservatards vs. Mann-Made Glo-bull Warmists” or whatever other dumbass portmanteaus each…Continue Reading…
Framing Irene
So maybe Hurricane Irene’s middle name should be “harbinger,” instead? From the NYT’s Justin Gillis: The scale of Hurricane Irene, which could cause more extensive damage along the Eastern Seaboard than any storm in decades, is reviving an old question: are hurricanes getting worse because of human-induced climate change? The short answer from scientists is that they are still…Continue Reading…