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"The British Council USA, in partnership with American University and SeaWeb/COMPASS, is pleased to present a dyanmic international workshop "Communicating Climate Change: Science and Media Networking for the Future." Participants will learn how to effectively communicate complex climate change science...
Posted on September 18, 2006 1:12 PM • 0 Comments
Over on geology.about.com (helpful tip: if you're ever teaching a lecture on geology, go there first), Andrew Alden scoops me in announcing that Mark Myers has been confirmed by the Senate as the next head of the USGS. Back in...
Posted on September 17, 2006 12:06 PM • 0 Comments
It's not often that geologists get featured on NPR, but when you publish a paper in Nature that discusses the destruction of Los Angeles via fire and brimstone, you're going to be called upon to give interviews. Here's the exchange...
Posted on June 21, 2006 9:36 PM • 3 Comments
Here's a little op-ed column by David Harsanyi that appeared in the Denver Post this morn titled "Chill out over global warming." If you follow the global climate tribal wars you've heard it all before. Bill Gray, fresh off his...
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Posted on June 5, 2006 6:41 PM • 30 Comments
It's been clear for a long time why environmental issues don't get the same political traction as issues like crime, security, taxes, job and health care. Ask a bunch of voters whether environmental problems are important and a large majority...
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Posted on May 15, 2006 7:01 PM • 6 Comments
I pointed out the seven-part series on Thomas Butler (former plague researcher at Texas Tech who got busted for losing some plague vials) in the CPD here. Now episodes three, four, and five are out. Well worth your time....
Posted on March 30, 2006 11:06 AM • 0 Comments
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is running a very compelling (at least so far) seven-part series written by John Mangels on the case of Dr. Thomas Butler, the infectious disease researcher at Texas Tech who was railroaded after losing some Black...
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Posted on March 28, 2006 12:33 AM • 0 Comments
I'm usually leery of picking up stories that other Sbers have already posted about, lest Sb become too much a house of mirrors, but this is noteworthy. Chris raises an angle on this Juliet Eilperin WAPo story covering this Science...
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Posted on March 3, 2006 12:50 PM • 3 Comments
Enough already! I've seen entirely too much mutual agreement amongst the SBers in our first month and a half together. So (read: tounge-in-cheek) I'm going to have to take it upon myself to start some fires and spice things up...
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Posted on February 24, 2006 10:52 AM • 19 Comments
Despite my best efforts to warn people about Paul Epstein (see the links in the 'welcome' post below), he's still getting quoted on climate change. Come on, people. He's a medical doctor who wildly exaggerates the evidence in the field...
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Posted on January 15, 2006 4:29 PM • 3 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
