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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: Bud Ward
Heretic, Dupe, Peacemaker Labels
Provoke Rants over Judith Curry Profile
Georgia Tech’s Judith Curry … heretic, dupe, peacemaker? All? None? When it comes to coverage of climate change, everyone’s a media critic. Reporters covering environment know full-well that few other subjects generate as much fan mail — make that, hate [...]
SEJ’s ‘Changing West’ Annual Conference:
Climate and Much More for 700-Plus Attendees
MISSOULA, MT. A veritable feast of substantive field trips, plenary sessions, and concurrent sessions — coupled with some somewhat less substantive but enjoyable evening receptions, focused small-group lunch tables and dinner events, and a ski-lodge based closing dinner/reception — [...]
AAAS Weblog Panel of Four Weighs
‘Overcoming Skepticism after “Climategate”‘
So a climate research scientist, an environmental advocate/climate scientist, an author/writer, and a communications academic gather around a table to discuss “Climate Change & the Public: Overcoming Skepticism after ‘Climategate’”? You haven’t heard this one? Read on. The research scientist, [...]
Mourning the Huge Loss of a ‘Giant’:
Stanford Climatologist Stephen H. Schneider
View larger image Schneider and wife Terry Root at 2008 Rothbury Festival Global Warming ‘Think Tank.’ The planet feels hotter now, and certainly more at risk. The world is smaller for the death of Stanford University climatologist Stephen H. Schneider. [...]
Leaving No Doubt on Tobacco, Acid Rain, Climate Change
Oreskes/Conway’s Merchants of Doubt
Draws Extensive Climate Denier Connections
In their climate science history book Merchants of Doubt, authors Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway leave little doubt about their disdain for what they regard as the misuse and abuse of science by a small cabal of scientists they see as [...]
'Uncertain Science' ... Certainly Uncertain
Newsweek Overseas Edition Column:
When Blogs Turn a Drizzle to a Deluge
A Newsweek column dismissing the established body of evidence on anthropogenic climate change for some time had scientists going critical on how best and whether to respond to the naive perspective. At the same time, the column by Newsweek European [...]
Rocks & Rolls & Twists & Turns
The rocks and rolls of the climate change policy debate have taken mind-warping twists and turns in recent months. Stop there. Note that the reference is to climate change policy and not to science. The latter, notwithstanding doubters’ continuing insistence [...]



