A new study by British climate researchers estimates just how hot urban areas around the world could become by mid-century under a “business-as-usual” scenario in which carbon dioxide concentrations rise to 645 parts per million.
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An initiative facing California voters in November would suspend the state’s landmark law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions until unemployment is 5.5 percent or less for at least a year. It now stands at more than 12 percent.
The University of Virginia has launched a legal effort to set aside the state attorney general’s demands for extensive records involving Penn State climatologist Michael Mann.
A weather outlook that looks painfully similar to that preceding 2005’s severe storm season.
That’s the bottom-line assessment of National Center for Atmospheric Research Associate Director Greg Holland, director of NCAR’s Earth System Laboratory. In the first of three concise videos capturing Holland’s assessment, taped during a recent National Science Foundation workshop on climate change communications, Holland describes (watch the video) what worries him about the forecast emerging among weather experts.
Public radio stations from across the U.S. will join with southern California local media representatives and others for a June 9 “Moving by Degrees” workshop on covering sustainability and climate change, sponsored by American Public Media and its “Marketplace” nationally broadcast radio program.
Three new climate change reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering’s National Research Council provide continuing science-based support for those convinced that climate change is occurring and that the changes are caused “in large part” by human activities.
T’is the season - again, still - for “reframing,” the phrase du jour in the climate change (there, we said it!) public policy debate.
Amidst the understandable, necessary, and riveting 24/7 live-cam\spill-cam “Breaking News” media focus on the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, its eventual and inevitable ecological legacy, and its political impacts …
Television meteorologists from four southeastern states met May 14-15 at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science for a Yale Forum-managed workshop on understanding and communicating climate change science.
The news had barely broken when the apple cart was suddenly upset.
255 National Academy of Sciences members, not all of them climate scientists, had signed and published in Science magazine a strong letter decrying politicization of science.
Their arguments were concise and forthright. But their message was soon to be enveloped in a media fog of controversy not of their making: a Science magazine staffer had “photoshopped” an iStockphoto.com image of a lone polar bear afloat on a shrinking ice floe.