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Category Archives: Analysis
A Tale of Two Climate Change Stories;
The Times, the Globe and the ‘Front-Page Thought’
They were two very different front-page stories about global climate change. One, in the Boston Globe, was a lifestyle piece about two long-time colleagues and friends — MIT climate scientists Kerry Emanuel and Richard Lindzen. Entitled “A Cooling Trend,” it [...]
'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 [...]
Undoing 'The Curse' of a Chain of Errors
Anatomy of IPCC’s Mistake
on Himalayan Glaciers and Year 2035
See Editor’s Note Introducing this Feature On the heels of the Copenhagen climate talks – whose scant accomplishments reveal that climate change science may be no match for international politics – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finds itself [...]
The CRU E-mails: What is Really There?
No climate-related stories over the past few years have attracted the level of mainstream coverage as those involving personal e-mails of prominent climate scientists that were hacked from a mail server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East [...]
What Do The American People Want?
U.S. Action on Climate Change
American climate policy could use a bit of James Madison. In a letter written in 1822, five years after leaving office, the fourth President of the United States cautioned that “A popular Government, without popular information … is but a [...]
Four Experts Pass Judgment
Commenting on Journalist Eric Pooley’s
Analysis of Press Coverage of Climate Policy
Journalist Eric Pooley’s January 2009 Shorenstein Center critique and analysis of press coverage of climate change policy issues has generated substantial attention and on-going “buzz” in climate journalism circles. After publishing freelance writer John Wihbey’s February 17 article and analysis [...]
Dissecting Reporter Eric Pooley's Media Analysis
If the Media Flunked Carbon Economics 101,
What Happens When Things Get Harder?
Veteran journalist Eric Pooley in January issued a powerful critique of the American press and its coverage of the 2008 cap-and-trade debate in the U.S. Senate. His central insight was that the “he said, she said” stenography that had once [...]



