Engaging across blogging divides on climate

Last week, an anthropology PhD student in New Zealand wrote a summary and response to a paper I gave at the Association for Journalism Education annual conference, in September this year. I though her commentary was a thoughtful piece with a fair set of conclusions: that bloggers self-select their networks based on beliefs. And that [...]

Channel 4 ‘did not mislead’ on global warming

Ofcom will rule next week that Channel 4 did not mislead the public over the science of climate change with its programme the Great Global Warming Swindle, according to Owen Gibson in the Guardian this morning.
There is some criticism of Channel 4 and the GGWS programme, produced by Michael Durkin:
Ofcom is expected to censure [...]

It’s Friday: a winner takes all climate question

Ok, hold on to your hat. As La Marguerite said earlier this week, and as Grist has been proving for eons, there’s no reason why we can’t laugh. So, it’s Friday. And here’s one winner-takes-all (the kudos) climate change question for you.
Which of these graphs was actually used in a serious article to help explain [...]

‘Deniers are a little crazy, you know…’

Two things I picked up off the blogs last night. First this story from the PEW Centre for excellence in journalism: that the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have buried environmental stories. And second, this news clip likening climate change deniers to a drunk crazy guy who got stuck in his toilet. “They’re [...]