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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
Category Archives: Media
Interactive Graphics Illustrate Benefits
Of Visualizations on Climate Change Issues
In real estate, it’s location, location, location. In climate change communications … it’s visualizations, visualizations, visualizations. Here we post some of the most iconic in the field and some having the most communications and information impact.
Cloudy Controversies: The Science
Behind the Spencer-Braswell Paper
There’s a lesson to be learned from an editor’s having resigned over his journal’s publication of a research report thought to have been inadequately reviewed: extraordinary claims must be supported by extraordinary evidence. Headline writers and media … take note.
Degree of Scientific Consensus Underestimated
Five ‘Potentially Distinct Groups’
Seen in Survey of TV Meteorologists
A new national survey of broadcast meteorologists provides a more refined and nuanced portrait than the broad-brush image of their generally being steadfastly resistant to much of the established climate science.
‘Climate Change’ … and ‘Global Warming’:
The New Dirty Words? And If So … What Then?
The ‘hot’ terms of a then-hot public policy issue have cooled substantially in the past three years as advocates for action on climate change are shifting to more energy- and public health-related rhetoric to try to score their points.
Reviewing the Nisbet ‘Climate Shift’ Report
and Controversial Claims of Media Progress
Matt Nisbet’s ‘Climate Shift’ research report raised headline-grabbing points on fundraising successes by those advocating action on climate change. But it’s what lies behind those headlines — and relating specifically to media coverage — that also warrants further review and [...]
A Yale Forum Extended ‘Chat’ with American University’s Matthew Nisbet
An extended and slightly edited transcript of American University ‘Climate Shift’ researcher Matthew Nisbet’s e-mail interview exchange with Yale Forum regular contributor John Wihbey.
Recent Weather Events/Climate Connection
Drawing Increased Scientific and Media Attention
The recent spate of severe weather events is drawing increased attention — in science and some journalism arenas — to possible links with long-term climate change. It’s an explosive issue and one that will demand close attention and monitoring as [...]



