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California Scientists Join Climate Appeal
More than 50 California-based scientists are among those who signed a letter protesting “McCarthy-like” attacks on climate scientists in the United States. The letter was published in this week's issue...
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Polls Underestimate Climate Change Concerns, Study Finds
A historic water marker left high and dry at Lake Powell in April 2010. (Photo: Gretchen Weber) If you’ve been paying attention at all over the last year, you’ve no doubt heard that Americans don’t...
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What Will it Take?
An interesting confluence of events this week: A Senate committee votes down a contentious amendment to the “climate” bill, a new Stanford survey shows rising concern about global warming, and pundits...
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“Merchants of Doubt” Traces Roots of Denial
A new book asserts that the very same group of Cold War ideologues who banded together to spread doubt about the link between tobacco and cancer also spearheaded the first efforts to discredit climate...
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Candidates Question Climate Science
Third-party candidates for governor call the science of global warming “junk science” and “a scam at worst.” Photo: Craig Miller While Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown debate the pros and cons of the...
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Apocalypse Not: Study Says Cool Down the Climate Message
Image from an Envrionmental Defense Fund TV campaign Remember that TV ad that represented climate change as an oncoming train? Polar bears falling from the sky and spattering on the sidewalk? If a new...
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Taking Climate Education to the Streets
Science museums, aquariums and other “informal educators” walk a tightrope when it comes to climate change. By Marjorie Sun The California Academy of Sciences and the Monterey Bay Aquarium have a big...
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A Call for Better Climate Awareness
Marjorie Sun’s story on climate education efforts by science museums is particularly timely, since the legislative landscape in Washington is most likely to become more hostile to climate science, when...
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Climate’s 10 Seconds of Fame
Reporting on climate change sinks to its lowest level since 2005 Empty stalls outside the UN climate talks the night before the opening. (Photo:Gretchen Weber) When Al Gore lamented recently in the...
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Belief in Climate Change Depends on Which Way the Wind Blows
More people think the climate is changing, and many say the weather convinced them David McNew/Getty ImagesPeople cited their experience of warmer temperatures as a major influence in their views of...
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