Announcements

Max Boykoff Scheduled to Speak at Boulder Book Store on 'Who Speaks for the Climate?'

Max Boykoff will be at the Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, February 8 for a book signing event on his 2011 book Who Speaks for Climate? Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change. Read more ...

Graduate Student Jessica Weinkle Blogs about Catastrophe Models

Writing at her blog, The Short Run, grad student Jessica Weinkle looks at recent catastrophe model filings in the state of Florida: In America's deep south, a region not so far away, hides a new foe threatening otherwise intelligent people's ability to decide. The Louisiana Insurance Commissioner, Jim Donelone, has rung the alarm putting homeowners on alert of "The looming threat of the new cat model, RMS 11". Read more ...

Max Boykoff's Co-Authored Book 'The New Carbon Economy: Constitution, Governance and Contestation' is Now Out

The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy. It offers key insights into the constitution, governance and effects of the carbon economy, across a variety of geographical settings. Read more ...

No. 31 Fall 2011

• Science For Climate Adaptation: Reflections from Behind the 8 Ball by Susanne C. Moser
• Research Highlight: Analyzing Expressed Stakeholders Needs in the Western Water Assessment Region by John Berggren and Lisa Dilling

NEW Publications

Maxwell Boykoff

• A dangerous shift in Obama’s ‘climate change’ rhetoric
• The New Carbon Economy: Constitution, Governance and Contestation
  

Lisa Dilling

• Improving Societal Outcomes of Extreme Weather in a Changing Climate
• Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science-Action Gap

Benjamin Hale

• Fukushima Daiichi, Normal Accidents, and Moral Responsibility: Nuclear Energy
• Nonrenewable Resources and the Inevitability of Outcomes
  

Roger Pielke, Jr.

• Innovation Policy Lessons of the Vasa
• Politics is About Acting Alike,
  Not Thinking Alike
• Putting Trust in Science at Risk
  

William Travis

• A Future of Mass Evacuations
• Adaptation to climate change in public lands management
• Going to Extremes: Propositions on the Social Response to Severe Climate Change
  
  

No. 22 September 2011

Bimonthly briefing sent to Washington, DC Decision Makers