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Category Archives: Science
But Over What Time Frame? Doubts Persist
Coal Preferable to Natural Gas from Shale for Climate?
Not So Fast … And Choice of Time Frame Critical
A recent analysis concluding that natural gas from shale poses more climate change problems than combustion of coal rests heavily on a problematic time frame. In the end, the widely reported article may do more to muddle understanding of natural [...]
Scientists and Long-Form Television:
Lessons from Richard Alley’s PBS Documentary
Geologist Richard Alley and writer/director Geoff Haines-Stiles offer insights into their collaboration for a PBS “Earth: The Operators’ Manual” documentary series.
Academy Draws Scientists, Artists
to Hollywood for ‘Summit’ on Science Education
LOS ANGELES, CA — “After a winter like this, how can you believe in global warming?” … “Climate change? Earth’s climate has always changed. Temperatures go up, temperatures go down.” … “Doesn’t the sun have something to do with it [...]
AMS Weather/Climate Scientists Join
With Washington Artists for ‘Forecast’ Exhibit
The weather outside was — what else might one expect, it being Seattle in mid-January? — cloudy, overcast, with on and off showers. The climate inside, by contrast, was bustling, somewhat frenetic, with American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting attendants (a [...]
Sustainable Agriculture:
Growing a Row of Climate Change
The complexity of climate change — difficult science, short-term action versus long-term implications, a confusing public debate — is neither difficult nor complex in the hands of a farmer. It is as simple as dirt, seeds, water, and sun. At [...]
Pew Center Scientist Turned Communicator: Jay Gulledge’s Journey from Academia to Capitol Hill
Pew Climate Change Senior Scientist Jay Gulledge has mixed science and communicating since earning his Ph.D. in biological sciences 15 years ago. On the research side, the biogeochemist has studied carbon cycling and the cycling fluxes of methane between ecosystems and the atmosphere, [...]
Scientists' 'Lessons Learned'
A Yale Forum Two-Part Special Feature:
Scientists and Journalists on ‘Lessons Learned’ (Pt. 1)
By any account, it’s been a challenging 12 months for climate science, for climate scientists, and for the ever-changing face of journalism as its practitioners struggle, or not, to keep their audiences adequately informed and knowledgeable. From the November 19, [...]



