Announcements

Boykoff Speaking at University of Copenhagen on Media and Climate Change

On October 22, May Boykoff will be giving a talk at University of Copenhagen's Sustainability Science Centre on "What have future generations done for me lately? Making sense of the role of media in shaping awareness and engagement with climate change". Read more ...

Congressional Hearing Featured Research by Weinkle, Maue and Pielke

At a July 18 hearing, “Climate Change: It's happening now”, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works considered a graph from a 2012 paper by CSTPR graduate student Jessica Weinkle titled Historical Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls. Read more ...

Roger Pielke, Jr. Testifies at Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works invited Roger Pielke, Jr., to testify at a full committee hearing entitled "Climate Change: It's Happening Now." Read more ...

Roger Pielke, Jr. to Serve as Director of CSTPR

Roger Pielke, Jr. will serve as the next Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, which sits within CIRES, starting September 1. Professor William (Bill) Travis, who served as Director for the past 5 years, will be ending his term after overseeing strong growth in Center research and personnel. Read more ...

No. 35 Spring 2013

• Power Politics: The political ecology of wind farm opposition in Wyoming by Shawn Olson

NEW Publications

Maxwell Boykoff

• Political economy, media, and climate change: sinews of modern life
• Climate Change and Adaptation Success: The Scope of the Challenge
  

Deserai Anderson Crow

• “Conservation” as a Catalyst for Conflict: Considering Stakeholder Understanding in Policy Making
  • Local Science Reporting Relies on Generalists, Not Specialists

Lisa Dilling

• Governing Geoengineering Research: Why, When and How?
• Promoting Adaptation Success in Natural Resource MGMT Through Decision Support

Benjamin Hale

• Climate Adaptation, Moral Reparation, and the Baseline Problem
• The Veil of Opulence
• The World That Would Have Been
  

Roger Pielke, Jr.

• Providing Evidence to Policy Makers: an Integration of Expertise and Politics
• Going to the moon was easy by comparison
  
  

William Travis

• Transformational Adaptation-Incremental Adaptations to Climate Change Are Insufficient
• A Future of Mass Evacuations
  • Adaptation to Climate Change in Public Lands Management
    

No. 26 June 2013

Briefing sent to Washington, DC Decision Makers