This article offers hints and tips for climate scientists and experts seeking to communicate with policy makers and the public. It is based on a recent workshop held by organised by the Royal Geographical Society Climate Change Research Group (CCRG). Read more
Climate change researchers need to improve their public debating skills. That was my take-away message for the audience last week... Read more
Public perceptions of the climate debate predominantly frame the key actors as climate scientists versus sceptical voices; however, it is... Read more
This paper explores the polarised debate between climate scientists and sceptical voices. It concludes that focusing on overlapping rationales, such as a sense of duty to publicly engage and recognition that political factors are a key topic of disagreement, as well as encouraging individuals to think critically about their own beliefs, may help to encourage constructive discussion and reduce polarisation. Read more
On Thursday, Boris Johnson will host the second of the Mayor of London 2012 Debates, which he claims are “London’s... Read more
An assistant professor of geochemistry at Syracuse University is the latest victim of the echo chamber of climate change denial... Read more
Self-proclaimed climate change 'sceptics' have for the past few years been recycling the myth that anthropogenic global warming has 'stopped'. But these 'sceptics' always fail to point out is that, based on their logic, manmade global warming has actually 'stopped' nine times since 1970, in 1972, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1995, 1996 and 1997. And they fail to mention that the underlying anthropogenic warming trend is clear and unambiguous when temperature data for the past four decades are taken into account. Read more
A new paper by scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, has been enthusiastically seized upon by some... Read more
Climate scientists often berate journalists for producing misleading articles about their work, but sometimes the research community should share the... Read more
The “Climategate” saga still rumbles on. The British House of Commons science and technology committee in January published the final... Read more