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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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 [...]