The so-called warming ‘hiatus’ over the past decade and a half is no reason for complacency on future warming. Mathematics teaches us that 15 years is simply too short a period from which to draw statistically valid conclusions.
Posted inFeature Article, Policy & Politics
Refocusing Climate Policy
Four new reports underline the need to refocus the conversation on climate policy. The emphasis now should be on the national and subnational levels rather than the global. But who will carry this message, given the changing character and structure of journalism?
Posted inEnergy, Feature Article, Policy & Politics
Roundup: How U.S. Media Are Covering the German Rush for Renewables
Two competing narratives emerge in a tale of an industrial giant going green.
Posted inFeature Article, Policy & Politics
A Partial Eclipse of Earth News – by Boston Marathon Bombings
Saturation media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings crowded-out environmental and other news stories, again raising questions about how Americans — and their media — assess risk.
Posted inCommunicating Climate
Parenting in an Age of Climate Change: Communicating the Tough Truths to Children
Climate communications takes on a new seriousness when it is one’s own children needing to be communicated with.
Posted inEducation
Climate change included in science teaching guidelines
Proposed new science teaching guidelines make case for complex concepts in science education, including, for the first time, climate change.
Posted inThis Is Not Cool
Yale Forum video focuses on Greenland ice sheet melt
Independent video producer trains his lens and microphone on seven climate science experts to help explain ice melt in Greenland and its implications for sea-level rise over remainder of the century.
Posted inAnalysis
Anomalous warmth? Context for comments on, critiques of, study in Science
A March report published in Science magazine prompts widespread coverage and substantial online back-and-forths. But what’s it all mean for our understanding of past and future global temperatures?
Posted inCommentary
A Denver TV meteorologist … In his own words
In the second of his two-part posting, veteran Denver broadcast meteorologist Mike Nelson outlines how he reached his views on human-caused climate change.
Posted inCommentary
A Denver TV meteorologist … In his own words
Veteran Denver broadcast meteorologist Mike Nelson outlines his views on human-caused climate change and does so ‘at some peril’ given the pushback he frequently encounters. Reposted with light edits and with permission of the author.
Posted inCommunicating Climate
Skoll discussion piece tackles climate engagement in U.S.
Easily accessible and readable report explores ins and outs of citizen engagement as ‘central to building the political will required for action.’
Posted inCommunicating Climate
Journalists – even columnists – have feelings too
A Vancouver newspaper columnist has fun putting the needle to a reader — ‘Mr. Missed It’ — who he thinks may have overlooked the paper’s more than 4,600 stories dealing with global warming.