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Recent Posts
- Changing the Cultural Climate … on Climate Culture
- Lines in the Sand
- Competing Narratives in U.S. Television News
- Mind-Blowing Heartland Street Poster Fiasco
- High School Climate Education Highlighted in PBS NewsHour Segment
- Alley Points to His ‘Personal Milestones’ and Dog Walking …
- Localizing Climate Change Stories
Author Archives: Scott Denning, Ph.D.
On Engaging with Climate 'Skeptics'
Changing the Cultural Climate … on Climate Culture
A respected climate scientist, in the aftermath of an ‘ugly’ billboard posting campaign, reflects on the merits of … and need for … continued efforts to engage climate ‘skeptics’ in order to seek-out approaches to what he labels ‘one of [...]
Changing the Climate Story
Competing Narratives in U.S. Television News
Content analysis of TV news coverage from 2001 to 2010, reflecting six basic narrative lines, shows striking on-air differences between cable coverage on Fox and CNN and broadcast news on ABC and other traditional networks.
High School Climate Education Highlighted in PBS NewsHour Segment
A Colorado high school science teacher offers a poignant definition of ‘theory’ as seen differently by the scientific and popular cultures and rebuffs some parents’ complaints about her reliance on NASA and NOAA data sets as being tantamount to ‘drinking the [...]
In Addressing No-Warming Since 1998 Canard
Alley Points to His ‘Personal Milestones’ and Dog Walking …
Key dates during his 55 years on Earth — and the image of a leashed dog zipping after a squirrel or ‘sniffing here and there’ — help a prominent climatologist make his point in debunking an all-too-common climate myth.
The View from Crater Lake: A First-Hand Account
Communicating Climate Change in a National Park
A Crater Lake park ranger’s first-hand learning curve on communicating with tourists offers valuable climate change do’s and don’ts, along with five valuable lessons learned.
Lack of Leadership on Climate Creates a ‘New Normal’
A series of disappointing national and global efforts leads to hopes that bottom-up local initiatives can overcome a vacuum in leadership and the stalemate that impede progress at the federal and international levels.
If Past is Prologue ... ?
The Climate Problem: We’ve Been Here Before
Our history with risks posed by growing amounts of space debris holds valuable lessons on climate change … but only for those willing to listen and learn.



