Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Catching up on the news

Some of the interesting pieces in the Yale Forum
Covering Climate Change in the Age of Digital Media by Michael Svoboda
http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/dl/YaleForum_E&E_Article.pdf
The Climate Extremes: Can the public discourse snap out of its own negative feedback loop? by Keith Kloor http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2012/02/the-climate-extremes/

Elsewhere:
a study of the role of debate between elites and perception of climate change as an issuehttp://www.springerlink.com/content/k17856khp026w174/

"If we can't even agree on observable, verifiable facts, how are we supposed to govern ourselves in a democracy?"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/INFM1N12Q9.DTL&ao=all

Help for science teachers caught in the middle of the political debate about climate science
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/02/so-whats-a-teacher-to-do/

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