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Excellent analysis by Curtis Brainard on coverage of Climategate

Posted on December 4th by Tom Yulsman.
After reading Curtis Brainard's excellent analysis yesterday in the Columbia Journalism Review online, I can't help but conclude that coverage of Climategate by the American press has mostly been thin ...
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“Eye of the storm” — Keith Kloor profiles James Hansen

Posted on November 28th by Tom Yulsman. %
James Hansen speaks at the University of Colorado in April of 2009. (Photo: Tom Yulsman) Nature Reports Climate Change has published a provocative profile of James Hansen, appropriately titled "The Eye ...
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Monbiot: environmentalists in denial over CRU emails

Posted on November 25th by Tom Yulsman. 71
Update 11/26/09: See Roger Pielke, Jr.'s post about peer review. He provides an illuminating analysis of how peer review seems to have become politicized. He refers to this Read More →
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Must read: a stinging rebuke of Joe Romm’s McCarthy tactics

Posted on November 4th by Tom Yulsman. 17
In a post at their Breakthrough Institute blog, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus offer a full-throated statement of support for journalists like Keith Kloor who have incurred ...
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Reporting on a poster-child for global warming

Posted on November 4th by Tom Yulsman. 12
As Kilimanjaro's ice cap disappears, journalists grapple with the story differently. What's your take on the coverage? The pictures at left reveal in visual form what a new study led by ...

Joe Romm trash talk — an update

Posted on November 3rd by Tom Yulsman. 5
John Fleck has an excellent post at his blog, Inkstain, about the latest Rommulan eruption — this one trashing Keith Kloor for his blogging on climate change. As ...

Talking trash

Posted on November 2nd by Tom Yulsman. 2
In a post the size of a feature article, Joe Romm at Climate Progress has attacked Keith Kloor, a former Scripps fellow in environmental journalism here at the ...
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El Rushbo update

Posted on October 22nd by Tom Yulsman. %
Several days after Rush Limbaugh compared Andrew Revkin to jihadists and suicide bombers — and then exhorted the New York Times Reporter to "go kill yourself" — NPR has run ...
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Fewer Americans convinced global warming is real

Posted on October 22nd by Tom Yulsman. 5
The percentage of Americans who believe there is solid evidence that the Earth is warming dropped sharply during the past year, according to a poll released today by ...
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Al & Me

Posted on October 13th by Tom Yulsman. 8
[caption id="attachment_2107" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="That's me, asking Al Gore a question that he easily parried. (Photo: Anne Minard)"][/caption] I was the second reporter in line to ask Al Gore a ...

As G-8 climate talks fail, some analysts urge a different approach

Posted on July 9th by Tom Yulsman.
At the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy today, leaders of the world's 16 biggest polluters failed to reach agreement on specific targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The failure ...
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There he goes again

Posted on May 24th by Tom Yulsman. 7
UPDATE 5/27/09: See Roger Pielke, Jr.'s description of Joe Romm's 180 degree turn on cap-and-trade policy, particularly the use of offsets. Two excerpts: I’ve come to depend upon Joe Romm for ideological ...
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Global warming could be twice as bad as projected

Posted on May 22nd by Tom Yulsman. 4
Study in the Journal Climate received very little press attention The roulette wheel on the left, produced by MIT researchers and based on a new study, depicts different probabilities ...
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James Hansen: Reduce CO2 in atmosphere or face catastrophe

Posted on April 10th by Tom Yulsman. 10
NOAA scientists agree the risks are high, but say Hansen overstates what science can really say for sure Jim Hansen at the University of Colorado's World Affairs Conference (Photo: Tom Yulsman) ...
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There he goes again

Posted on April 9th by Tom Yulsman. 4
George Will's latest foray into climate science is no better than the previous two I've spent way too much time focusing on the George Will Climate Change Follies so I hesitated ...