During the Science Online conference, Chris Mooney said that the response to Climategate should be to train and pay “deadly ninjas of science communication.” If…
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From the Editor’s Desk: The Grand Challenge of Ocean Acidification and Fisheries
Anthropogenic climate change has been hypothesized for centuries (discussed in Le Treut 2007) before the careful measurements of scientists in the mid-20th century. From 1833…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: The Grand Challenge of Ocean Acidification and FisheriesScientist In Residence: Danny Richter on Confronting Climate Change Skeptics
I thought it a good time to lay down a primer on how to talk with a climate skeptic, especially when they’re trying to swindle…
View More Scientist In Residence: Danny Richter on Confronting Climate Change SkepticsWhere’s the Ocean Love?
DSN will be featuring some guest posts from Danny Richter – A Ph.D Student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego studying diatoms stems…
View More Where’s the Ocean Love?Cop16 Climate Talks Resume In Cancun
Beginning this morning and running through December 10th, the 16th edition of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
View More Cop16 Climate Talks Resume In CancunFrom the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the Environment
Obama’s Pledge on the Environment “We cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the EnvironmentAn open letter about climate change
In case you haven’t already read it, head over to Southern Fried Science where WhySharksMatter delivers an elegantly written, sincere, and ultimately balanced letter to…
View More An open letter about climate changeConfronting Climate Contrarianism II: Methane Accumulation in the Atmosphere
Confronting Climate Contrarianism looks into the claims made climate contrarians and how they (mis)use the scientific literature. —————————————————————– In a textbook example of climate contrarians…
View More Confronting Climate Contrarianism II: Methane Accumulation in the AtmosphereFrom the Editor’s Desk: Confronting Climate Contrarianism
In 2007, there was a peer-reviewed article published by Arthur Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon titles “Environmental Effects of Increased Carbon Dioxide.” Just focusing…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: Confronting Climate ContrarianismTo Catch a Fallen Sea Angel: How a Mighty Mollusc Detects Ocean Acidification
I wrote a piece on the plight of our favorite “winged” mollusc, the pteropod, in arctic seas over at Scientific American’s guest blog. […] To…
View More To Catch a Fallen Sea Angel: How a Mighty Mollusc Detects Ocean Acidification