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- 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.
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Recent Posts
- 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’
- 2013 ‘State of’ Report Describes Continuing Woes of Journalism
- Jared Diamond, Yesterday’s World, Today’s Perceptions, Tomorrow’s Climate
- NASA’s Science Visualization Wall: Cool Is An Understatement
- Stations in Three Virginia TV Markets to Try Expanding Climate Coverage
Author Archives: Bud Ward
Communicators, Scientists See Strengths, Limits in Social Media, Blogging
A panel at AGU’s annual fall meeting sings the praises of communicating climate science through a wide range of media — from full-length books to Twitter tweets — and outlines rules of the road and strengths/limitations of each medium.
Sampling AGU’s Poly- and Mono-Syllabic Offerings
AGU offers a vast array of technical and nontechnical sessions … more than enough for any climate-curious attendee.
State Climatologist Offers ‘Hierarchy of Credibility’
Texas’s state climatologist suggests ‘hierarchy of credibility’ could help public sort out competing climate science claims.
A Veteran Scientist’s Communications Advice to Colleagues
‘A learnable skill’ is how Richard Somerville describes science communications, offering some medical metaphors as examples.
The ‘New AGU’ … Talking Up Its Policy Backbone
AGU leadership professes its willingness to head-up an aggressive public policy and ‘education’ campaign directed at congressional skeptics.
It’s AGU Week. So What? (You May Ask)
Thousands gather this week in San Francisco for the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting. This week’s posts will focus on developments at the meeting.
Language Heating Up as Planet Continues to ...
Four New Sobering Reports: Serious Warnings on Warming Planet
First came independent reports from respected global banking, energy, and national security perspectives … and then came a new study in Science by 47 international researchers cautioning about faster losses of land-based ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica over the [...]



