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In his Public Understanding of Science 2000 article ‘Knowledge, Ignorance and Popular Culture’, University of Toronto Professor Sheldon Ungar suggests the reason that public understanding and concern could coalesce around the ozone hole, where it has failed to do so for climate change, was in part due to two things: first, that the ozone hole [...]

I can’t make it to Climate Camp as I’ve got a couple of deadlines approaching for a book chapter and article (both on climate change–reasonable excuse?) But to do my bit I’m going to try and monitor the language that the media uses to report on activities at the camp.
I’ll look at the different ways [...]

I just caught the first instalment of Mark Watson’s Radio 4 Book of the Week this morning: the story of his ‘one year of doing the environment better’ that he’s put together in his new book, Crap At The Environment.
Fair play to Mark for taking on the subject, and doing it in both a [...]

“Doubt is our product. We manufacture doubt.” So says Mack, the bastard PR-lobbyist in last night’s BBC2 climate change drama, Burn Up.
It wasn’t a bad attempt at taking on climate change in a dramatic made-for-TV format. The first turns at addressing a new social/political phenomena are always going to be a little cliched. Some of [...]

Courtesy may be a lost art. That’s according to Christopher (Viscount) Monckton of Brenchley, who claimed that the decision of the Committee of the American Physical Society (APS) to retract support for his paper Climate Sensitivity Revisited was ‘discourteous’.
The APS originally published Monckton’s paper in its online journal, Physics and Society, editor Jeff Marque.
Yesterday, APS [...]

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 [...]

Online now at the Columbia Journalism Review, Cristine Russell has put forward an essay on how we were, are, and should be covering climate change across the media. It’s a great piece, full of excellent examples, and picked up by other respected media commentators.
Cristine is president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing [...]

Wordle is a very cool tool. Put in any bunch of words and it creates a text cloud based on most commonly recurring words.
Here is today’s lead story (and all peripheral links and stories on the homepage) on DailyMail.co.uk:

Lots of questions this week on why John McCain is ditching his green credentials and environmental strategy to deliver a mix of messages to the American public.
Earlier in the week Grist and Politico both commented on the launch of McCain’s new environmental TV ad coming on the same day as his call for the lifting [...]

News sites and the Associated Press in America are being criticized by a leading climate blog for failing to check the veracity of a report that was pushed in a press release last week, claiming that earthquakes are linked to global warming.
Did you miss it? This story was published on:

Yahoo Biz
Investigate Express.co.uk
MSNBC
Free Republic (grass roots [...]