Jay Rosen is the person best at making sense of modern journalism, especially in America. He doesn’t usually think of science journalism in particular, but his comments are often strikingly on target for our interests as well. There’s an excellent interview with Rosen in The Economist Some of it reflects on the quandary that someone…
Presumably nobody has missed taking note of Tamino’s rebuttal of Montford on RealClimate, but maybe, like me, some have put off reading the comments. Don’t miss the whole thing; it’s fascinating and one of the best RC threads ever. In the view of keeping on pressing the press, I will leave you with the concluding…
In a recent essay which is much too long for most blog readers to bother with, “We Are What We Think“, I argued that we need to rethink our relationship to the world. I was somewhat vague as to how to do it. Also for good measure I snarled at Andy Revkin, which I sill…
Apparently, Tom Yulsman has been on the “climate beat” for quite some time. Anyway, he has a collection of interesting observations about communicating climate science from various participants. Unfortunately, no compelling position emerges from it. Sometimes I suspect that it is exactly the purpose of conventional journalism, to avoid influencing the reader’s position at all….
It’s time we faced the facts: The world is overpopulated, near or beyond its long-term carrying capacity for modern humans Resources are being depleted and environmental supports weakened Energy usage is getting tangled in supplies of water and fair weather Economic systems designed for none of the above are misfiring for various reasons including but…
If there is a sidewalk on either side of a busy street, you may argue whether to walk down the east side or the west side, but it’s not a useful compromise to walk out in traffic. There is more than one question we need to solve, so there are lots of ways of looking…
Revkin falls into his old habit of splitting the difference between lies and truth, and then offers some lame justification on his blog. This is not acceptable. Revkin should take a hint from Joe Romm on what the actual climate news is this week. I am also 100% behind Joe Romm on his take on…
Now there’s this item: Talk about a civics lesson: A high school senior has raised questions about political bias in a popular textbook on U.S. government, and legal scholars and top scientists say the teen’s criticism is well founded. They say “American Government,” by conservatives James Wilson and John DiIulio, presents a skewed view of…
A really excellent article on geoengineering appears on Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth in which In It reader RM Reiss has already commented briefly but cleverly. Revkin also points to related NYTimes articles by Cornelia Dean and William Broad. I’ve been hard on journalists in general and Revkin in particular of late, so let me take…