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Category Archives: News Notes
Penn State Glaciologist Richard Alley
First Winner of $10,000 Schneider Award
Penn State University glaciologist Richard B. Alley is the winner of the initial Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication, administered by Climate One, a sustainability initiative of the nonprofit Commonwealth Club of California.
More Science Info, More Consensus? Maybe Not ...
Researchers Point to ‘Who’ … and Regional Impacts
As Having Potential Unintended ‘Boomerang Effects’
Framing potential climate health effects as facing distant, rather than nearby, victims poses a ‘boomerang effect’ that, among other things, could further widen the yawning gap on climate change mitigation efforts between Republican and Democratic partisans. New study calls into [...]
Earth Science Teachers Surveying Members;
Climate Seen ‘Second Only to Evolution’ in Controversy
Results of a national survey of science teachers are to be reported this November in response to an anonymous online questionnaire on K-12 climate science teaching.
AGU, Commonwealth Club’s ‘Climate One’
Backing Science Communications Awards
Reflecting increasing recognition of the strategic importance of climate science communications, the American Geophysical Union and Climate One, a component of The Commonwealth Club, initiate cash award prize competitions offering $25,000 and $10,000 respectively.
Still Room for Improvement ...
BBC’s Science and Climate Coverage
Gets High Remarks for Accuracy, Impartiality
A British professor gives BBC high marks for quality of its science and climate change coverage but suggests a less rigorous approach to ‘due impartiality’ when the scientific evidence and facts are abundantly clear.
‘Climate Pragmatism’ Urges New Approach;
Blogger Blasts ‘Road to Ruin,’ ‘Right-Wing Myths’
A group of scholars, rallying against the deadlocks of past years’ international treaties and legislative initiatives, urges a bottom-up ‘pragmatic’ approach. But they offer no target for emissions reductions, no deadlines, and no enforcement mechanism.
Atmospheric Scientist Scott Denning
Shares Lessons from Dialog with ‘Skeptics’
“I didn’t pull punches” in pointing out the “gravity” of climate challenges, a Colorado State professor says of his exchanges with a Heartland Institute conference of climate doubters. He would do it all over again and hopes his “like-minded” colleagues [...]



