The lead story of last night's PBS NewsHour covered recent extreme weather events in the context of global climate change. (Capital Climate)
Every Network Gets Extreme Weather Story Right, ‘Now’s The Time We Start Limiting Manmade Greenhouse Gases’ — ABC (Romm)
Informal assessment of what climate outreach is currently happening & being funded, and what needs to be. Touchstone: selected findings & recommendations from the NRC's 2010-2011 America's Climate Choices assessment reports.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Sandwalk/Larry Moran on science communication that matters
Read Larry Moran's blogpost Communicating Science to Society - in short, we need less news and more explainers. Excerpt:
Saturday, July 7, 2012
NOAA's website climate.gov needs improvement
The day after this post was published, NOAA's 2011 "State of the Climate" report came out; see Judy Woodruff of PBS interviewing NOAA's Thomas Karl.
Updated Sept 2 with NOAA response, appended to post.
Talking with an intelligent libertarian-contrarian recently, I asked what institution he found credible; he said NOAA.
So I thought to myself "voila, my work here is done" - just point him to their website, offer some salient quotes, and at least we'll move on to the next barrier to acceptance. But no -
Updated Sept 2 with NOAA response, appended to post.
Talking with an intelligent libertarian-contrarian recently, I asked what institution he found credible; he said NOAA.
So I thought to myself "voila, my work here is done" - just point him to their website, offer some salient quotes, and at least we'll move on to the next barrier to acceptance. But no -
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