-
Recent Posts
- JPL’s Josh Willis Looks Ahead to Continuing Sea Level Rise
- Sea Level Rise, One More Frontier For Climate Dialogue Controversy
- WSJ ‘No Need to Panic’ Op-ed Prompts Heated Exchanges, Leading to Long-Awaited ‘Last Word’ (Not really of course)
- E&E: Covering Climate Change in the Age of Digital Media
- Making Climate Media Creative — in the Extreme
- Global Warming Concerns Melting Away
- Better Understanding and Improving Climate Communications
Author Archives: Bud Ward
WSJ ‘No Need to Panic’ Op-ed Prompts Heated Exchanges, Leading to Long-Awaited ‘Last Word’ (Not really of course)
Point. Counter-point. Point. Counter-point. Check … and Check Mate. And, alas … the ‘last word’ on gulf dividing climate scientists and their critics. (If only)
Goal of U. of Michigan Erb Institute/UCS Workshop
Better Understanding and Improving Climate Communications
Some 100 social scientists, communications experts, and climate scientists convene at University of Michigan’s Erb Institute/Union of Concerned Scientists session to better understand, improve climate communication dialogue.
NPR, AP Correspondents: Useful Climate, Fracking Metaphors
The pursuit of the ‘perfect’ metaphor(s) for communicating on climate change continues, now aided by recent unrelated efforts by an NPR science correspondent and an AP Latin America reporter.
A New Player -- or Just a New Name -- on Climate Policy?
From Pew Climate Change Center To C2ES, What’s Behind the Name Change?
A respected inside-the-Washington-Beltway climate change player changes its name. But also its focus? What to make of the new Center for Climate and Energy Solutions? (Note the word ‘change’ dropped there? Does it matter?
AGU ‘Other Meeting’ Offers Scientific Grist for Thousands from Around World
Annual AGU fall meeting in San Francisco provides thousands from across the globe scientific insights on what motivates — or should — the on-again/off-again COP talks on an international climate change treaty.
In Fool Me Twice, Shawn Lawrence Otto Delivers Valuable Back Stories
The individual behind the 2008 presidential campaign ‘Science Debate’ initiative tells where we are with research science in the current political atmosphere. But more importantly, he also tells how we’ve gotten to where we are, and where we may be [...]
SEJ Journalists Meeting Confronts Bitter Pills on Climate Future
‘What hope?’ is there, a veteran environmental reporter asks a panel after hearing their bleak prognoses for addressing the planet’s climate challenges? And Einstein’s advice … simple but not too simple.



