Partners
- Minnesota Public Radio's Weekly "Climate Cast" Broadcast featuring Meteorologist Paul Huttner
- Link TV's "Earth Focus", Putting a Human Face on Pressing Global Issues.
- "Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal", Meteorologist Dan Satterfield's American Geophysical Union Blogosphere Feature
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Recent Posts
- President’s Science Advisors Suggest Do-able Second Term Policies
- Database Suggests Downward Trend in Times Coverage
- Weather and Climate Change Focus of AMS June 25 ‘Short Course’
- Goodbye Jim Hansen, Civil Servant. Hello Jim Hansen, Citizen Scientist
- Points Leading Conservative Voices Most Often Make on Climate Change
- Sportsmen’s and Anglers’ Views Highlighted in New ‘This Is Not Cool’ Video
- U. of Washington Course: Science Students Learning ‘to Tell Stories’
Author Archives: Janet A. Phoenix, M.D., MPH
Climate Change and Public Health Reporting
Search climate change news most days and you’ll likely find few references to public health impacts. So it comes as no surprise that the American public – apparently unlike the public in Western Europe and other industrialized countries – by [...]
Researcher Boykoff’s Nature Commentary: Media Wrongly Mixing Climate Science, Policy
Climate change news researcher and academic Max Boykoff writes in a recent Nature Reports Climate Change “Commentary” that despite recent evidence that coverage of climate change is improving, “all too often, media reports conflate the vast and varied terrain of [...]
Twelve Things Journalists Can Do To Save Journalism (Excerpt)
We have decades and decades invested in doing things based on old rules. Now, the rules have changed, and newsrooms need to change as well. We need new attitudes and new cultures. This will only happen if individual journalists put [...]
Climate Change and the Sunday Comics Page
You know the climate issue has truly arrived as a newspaper fixture when it moves beyond the news, opinion, business, sports, and feature sections to show up in the Sunday comics – twice on the same day.
‘Debate’ Site Aggregates Pro and Con Climate Items
If the public conversation about manmade global warming is losing some of its essentially debate-like quality, you couldn’t tell it from glancing at a new website called “Climate Debate Daily,” a pro-and-con aggregator of items published elsewhere.
Pacific Northwest Low-Oxygen Events: ‘Tipping Point’ Linked to Warming?
Reporters in the Pacific Northwest might find some good stories in digging into a Science magazine study by Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University’s well-known marine biology professor.
Men from Mars, Women from Venus When It Comes to News Gathering?
So if men tend to be more interested than women in news about international affairs, Washington, D.C., goings-on, and sports …



