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Who speaks for the climate? Trying to make sense of media reporting on climate change

Maxwell T. Boykoff

At the moment there is no a single spokesperson for the global atmosphere; there are rather multiple competing interpretations of global warming. Mass media constitute the arena in which these different versions are presented and discussed. “Who Speaks for the Climate? Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change”, by Maxwell T. Boykoff of the University of Colorado explores the different narratives around climate change. In Laura Caciagli’s interview, the author talks about the new role of media, highlighting the factors that influence media coverage of climate change.

published January 23rd, 2012
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Knowledge Claims in A Post-Normal Stage: Thoughts on Climate Science and Policy

Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr

The climate issue requires both scientific analysis and political decision-making. Perceiving climatic impacts, possibilities and necessities through the lens of political interests will hardly achieve long-term success. Quite to the contrary, a dispassionate scientific analysis is needed to present the various options in detail and thus to enable normative political decisions. To this end, climate research is in need of self-reflection. Fundamental scientific values such as contradiction, openness, sustainability, independence of individuals and falsification, enable science to unfold its potential as an action-guiding knowledge provider. For this purpose – Hans von Storch (GKSS Research Centre and) and Nico Stehr (Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen) explain – the natural sciences need input from the social sciences, cultural studies and a discerning public.

published July 6th, 2010
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Dot Earth: Transparency and Interactivity of Climate Change

Alessandra Mazzai

“One billion people, one planet” is the headline of Dot Earth. It addresses anyone interested in a clear-eyed exploration of risks and opportunities as humans head toward a peak population of approximately nine billion in the next fifty years. Seven hundred sixty articles and one thousand twitter messages so far in the A.C. Revkin’s blog, where the New York Times journalist reports on Climate Change and global environment issues, examining efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits

published November 13th, 2009
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Climate Inc. and the Business of Climate Change

Alessandra Mazzai

Climate Change needs to be approached by several points of view. Various disciplines can contribute in dealing with Climate Change. The scientific world and the academic field cross the rails of policy and business; these educational themes mix together in the same realm of journalism. Several ways of spreading the word, several ways of studying the causes, of predicting the future, of looking for solutions, collaborate in shaping a new society around some truths that are sometimes not acknowledged. Climateinc.org is a blog which seems to start with this postulate

published November 13th, 2009
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