Climate scientists were quick to respond when a respected British atlas blundered on the amount of permanent ice cover lost in Greenland over past decade.

Doing the right thing for the climate … but not fretting much about what the future holds. That attitude sums up many tourists’ views, a tour bus driver at Glacier National Park says.

Annual $100,000 unrestricted cash awards given to several climate and marine scientists among 10 winners.

Former New York Times science writer Andrew C. Revkin and SkepticalScience.com founder John Cook have won respected national climate science communications awards in the U.S. and Australia respectively.

Some researchers may be getting closer to ‘attributing’ a global warming/severe weather event connection, Nature reports. But challenges are seen as substantial, and ‘absolute confidence’ in fingerprinting will likely remain elusive.

An Al Gore-funded 24-hour/24-site blitz on September 14-15 aims to recapture climate change momentum, and a separate foundation-funded initiative opens with time-scale images showing glacier melt, with a debut at Washington’s Reagan Airport.

A Pew Center scientist connects the dots of the recent debt ceiling debate, global economic recession, and ideological clashes involving cultural issues. The outlook, he writes, threatens scientific research and demands scientists’ active communications efforts.