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Campaign Desk
Obama’s NASA Plan Gets Little Play
November 29, 2007 11:10 AMWith a few notable exceptions, journalists missed an opportunity to rip into a rare intersection of education and science on the campaign trail last week. It should be noted, penitently, that this column also appears a bit late, and usually... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
NYT Runs Out of Energy
November 28, 2007 03:25 PMIt looked promising, at first: a story on the front page of the The New York Times business section that appears to use soaring oil prices as the news peg for a roundup of our presidential candidates' various energy... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
“Evangelicalese 101”
November 27, 2007 01:14 PMEvangelicals are the swing voters to watch in 2008. At least, that's the impression one gets from the large number of news articles this group has stirred up this campaign season. It is safe to say, however, that no single... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Fusing Climate to the Campaign
November 19, 2007 04:53 PMThree presidential candidates gathered at a forum in Los Angeles on Saturday to talk specifically about global warming and energy issues. It was the "first time in history" that this has happened, according to a press release from the... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Where is the Climate ‘Middle’?
November 16, 2007 02:47 PMIn late October, The New York Times finally gave its climate reporter, Andrew Revkin, what he has wanted for some time: a blog of his own, called Dot Earth. Blogging might not seem like the next obvious... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Climate Consensus: Bravery or Blunder?
November 7, 2007 02:21 PMIn early October, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama unveiled their campaign platforms on energy and the environment. John Edwards hasn't made an event out of his, but he has one, and so do the other Democratic candidates. All of them... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Bloomberg Overshadows Edwards
November 5, 2007 11:54 AMJohn Edwards spun through New Orleans like a, well, not like a hurricane. On Saturday he blew in and out of the city where he launched his campaign a year ago without causing much of a stir. Edwards... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Those Complicated California Wildfires
November 2, 2007 12:47 PMIt's almost inevitable these days: from hurricanes, to drought, to wildfires, people want to know (and journalists can't help asking) if these natural disasters are the product of man-made global warming. It's hard to fault all those guilty... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The “Other” Water Problem
October 25, 2007 08:42 AMIn a long, New York Times Magazine cover story last weekend, Jon Gertner envisioned a dry future in the American southwest where, unless conservation measures are enacted soon, states could be squabbling over diminishing stores of water. <br... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Inhofe In The Crosshairs
October 11, 2007 02:11 PMThe novelties of this presidential race have captured so much media attention that the need to also elect a suite of congressmen and women and governors in 2008 has hardly registered yet. The Oklahoman broke the quiet on Wednesday, however,... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Low-Hanging Fruit
October 9, 2007 02:05 PMWhoa now. It's not often that I see another media critic writing about environmental journalism. The notion that we need more of them is one possible inference to be drawn from Sam McManis's column in The Sacramento Bee today:... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Education or Indulgence?
October 9, 2007 09:51 AMNot many diplomats shared Czech President Vaclav Klaus's opinion about global warming at a special meeting of the United Nations two weeks ago: Contrary to many self-assured and self-serving proclamations, there is no scientific consensus about the causes... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Clinton Vows to Protect Science
October 5, 2007 01:57 PMHats off to Hillary - she made a smart play yesterday, using the fiftieth anniversary of the Sputnik launch to expound on her science platform before a beltway crowd at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. Like all... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Yale Launches Climate, Media Forum
October 2, 2007 12:33 PMThe consensus on how to improve news stories about climate change is even more solid than the consensus on global warming itself: reporters and scientists need to communicate better with each other. It's a two-way street, and if you spend... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Climate and the Campaign
September 28, 2007 11:00 AMAs the federal election rapidly approaches, climate change, energy, and environment have become leading issues among candidates and the media ... in Australia. It was a big week down under. Last Sunday, Prime Minister John Howard announced new... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Climate, Front And Center
September 25, 2007 03:40 PMToday is the second day of what The New York Times labeled "Climate Week" in an editorial last Saturday. Beginning with a special, one-day session on climate change at the United Nations yesterday, and concluding with a two-day, White... Continue reading
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Behind the News
What’s Healthy?
September 19, 2007 12:53 PMWhat do red wine, cell phones, and daycare have in common? All have ambiguous links to human health established by epidemiological, or observational, studies. The list of dietary, consumer, and lifestyle choices that can affect wellbeing is long; anybody who... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Precisely
September 13, 2007 04:44 PMIt could be that I'm just tired after a week covering a science journalists' conference in California, but I came across a bit of contradictory language in a USA Today article today that is worth spotlighting. ... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Environmental Journalism? Environmentalism?
September 11, 2007 11:53 AMI suppose that when I walked into the opening reception of the Society of Environmental Journalists annual meeting last Wednesday, I expected the revelry I found. It had been a big year for them (us, I guess). Thanks, largely, to... Continue reading
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Behind the News
What Kind of News do People Really Want?
August 31, 2007 12:44 PMIt's almost fifty pages long, but well worth the read: a recent study by the Pew Research Center for People & the Press synthesizes 165 separate national surveys and finds that American news preferences have remained "surprisingly static" over... Continue reading
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