This NYT exposé on lax regulation of the booming natural gas industry is a must read, but the paper of record is very late to the party. And the author of the piece, Ian Urbina, is fairly ungenerous in his acknowledgment of that fact when he notes, one quarter of the way into his story,…Continue Reading…
Freeman Dyson and Steve Connor, the science editor of The Independent, had a long email conversation that neither found very satisfying.
Andrew Freedman of the WaPo’s Capital Weather Gang nicely captures my philosophy: I’ve never been a fan of absolutes. People who espouse rigid beliefs – be they about climate change, religion, or politics (or a mix of all three) – instinctively make me question their evidence. As a reporter, I tend to see things in…Continue Reading…
I hadn’t paid much attention to the nifty online current events encyclopedia being built at the NYT until I read this post. The “topics pages” strike me as quite useful for casual readers seeking additional context and information on subjects covered in Times news stories and blog posts. For example, today’s NYT profile of Kenneth…Continue Reading…
So I’m at the annual AAAS conference and the first session I attended Friday morning was called “Why climate Scientists are from Mars and Science Reporters are from Venus.” I made that up. The thrust of the session mostly focused on the state of science journalism in the rapidly changing digital media landscape. But in…Continue Reading…
A few days ago, House Republicans held their first hearing on climate science. Actually, as John Broder reported in the NYT, the ostensible purpose of the hearing was to review the economic impact of pending limits on carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases. But much of the discussion focused instead on whether climate science supports…Continue Reading…
I’ve been growling all week at the stream of stories and blog posts dissecting the business angle to the AOL acquisition of the Huffington Post. As if that were all that mattered about this news. But one post by Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor and new media maven, got me barking mad. Now I generally…Continue Reading…
Romania my get even tougher on witches That’s journalistic artistry.
Charlie Petit flags an interesting divergence in coverage of a recent NGO report on mercury pollution. Actually, it’s a case where one environmental reporter seems to have done a little more–um, reporting.
In the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately dept, I see that Fred Pearce is getting worked over by hysterics in the climate sphere. For the record, I’ve already stated several times (at my site) and over at Judith Curry’s blog that Pearce committed a boo-boo no-no in a recent blog post. Deltoid blows this up into “Pearcegate.” Stoat sinks…Continue Reading…