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14 November 2011

Max Boykoff Speaking at Mexico City's Climate Change Communication Forum

On November 25, Max Boykoff will participating in a forum on Climate Change Communication in Mexico City. Max will be part of a panel discussion on "Climate change in the media: problems and best practices". Read more ...

 

31 October 2011

Max Boykoff Speaking at University of Miami's Abess Center Lecture on the Media and Climate Change

On November 14, Max Boykoff will give a lecture at University of Miami's Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy on "Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change”. Read more ...

 

24 October 2011

Roger Pielke Jr. Spoke at University of Colorado's COSI Seminar on Scientists in Policy and Politics

On October 24, Roger Pielke, Jr. gave a lecture at University of Colorado's Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging on "Scientists in Policy and Politics”. Read more ...

 

7 October 2011

Max Boykoff Presented at IPPR's Media Leaders and Climate Change Meeting

On October 6, Max Boykoff attended the Institute for Public Policy Research Media Leaders and Climate Change Round Table 2 Meeting in London. He gave a talk on "The impact of UK and US media coverage on awareness, understanding and political responses around climate change".

 

25 August 2011

Lisa Dilling Presented at the American Chemical Society Meeting

Lisa Dilling will be attending the 242nd American Chemical Society National Meeting in Denver, Aug. 28–Sept. 1 with three other CIRES Fellows — Jose-Luis Jimenez, Ted Scambos and Margaret Tolbert . Each will present their novel research results at the conference themed ‘Chemistry of Air, Space and Water.’ Read more ...

 

16 August 2011

Roger Pielke, Jr. Interviewed on In-State Tuition Reform

On August 16, Roger Pielke, Jr. was on AM 760 Colorado Progressive Talk Radio and Colorado Matters on Colorado Public Radio to discuss the issue of in-state tuition reform. Read more ...

 

29 July 2011

The Climate Fix: Video Interview with Author Roger Pielke, Jr.

In Spring 2011, Matthew Nisbet of American University interviewed Roger about his book The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming. Khari Williams, a graduate of American University's program in public affairs journalism, wrote a report about this event titled "Climate Change Requires Innovative Thinking and Approaches, Says Scholar". This report and videos from the event are available on bigthink.com.

 

20 July 2011

ABC News Blog Praises The Climate Fix

Sean Sublette, a broadcast meteorologist at ABC News 13 in Virginia, has posted on his station's Weather Expert's blog a review of Roger Pielke's book The Cimate Fix.

 

9 July 2011

Roger Pielke, Jr. Appeared on NPR to Discuss the Space Shuttle Program

On July 9 Roger Pielke, Jr. discussed the promise vs. the reality of the space shuttle program on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition.

 

5 July 2011

Roger Pielke, Jr. Scheduled to Give Keynote Speech at Geneva Assoication's M.O.R.E. 25 Conference

On July 12, Roger Pielke, Jr. will be giving the keynote speech on "The New Economic Loss Model" at the M.O.R.E. 25 on Mapping and Modelling Risks and Opportunities (MMR+O 2).This conference is organized by the Geneva Association and Axis Re, Bermuda and hosted by the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute in Bermuda. Read more ...

 

24 June 2011

Colorado Climate Preparedness Project Final Report

Center Director Bill Travis and Center Managing Director Bobbie Klein are among several authors of the recently released Colorado Climate Preparedness Project Final Report. The report uses documents and information obtained through a series of 22 interviews to catalog climate impacts and adaptation activities and options in five climate-sensitive sectors in the state of Colorado: water; wildlife, ecosystems, and forests; electricity; agriculture; and outdoor recreation. Read more ...

 

23 June 2011

AESS 2011 Meeting: Exploring How Mass Media Confront Complexity When Covering Climate Change

On June 25, Max Boykoff will be chairing a media and climate session at the 2011 Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Meeting on "Exploring How Mass Media Confront Complexity When Covering Climate Change". Read more ...

 

20 June 2011

Media Analysis and Climate Change Communication Talks by Max Boykoff

On July 14, Max Boykoff will give a talk at University of Oxford on "Who speaks for climate? Making sense of media reporting on climate change". On June 20, Max also gave a talk at the 'International Climate Communication Summit' sponsored by Greenpeace. His talk was on "What Media Analysis Can Tell Us About Effective Climate Change Communications". Read more ...

 

15 June 2011

Lisa Dilling Appointed to EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors

Lisa Dilling has been appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), and to the Executive Committee within the BOSC. BOSC was established by the EPA to provide advice, information, and recommendations about the Office of Research and Development (ORD) research program. Read more ...

 

19 May 2011

Roger Pielke Jr. Scheduled to Appear on 9News Your Show with Marty Coniglio

9News meteorologist Marty Coniglio will guest host 9News YOUR SHOW to talk about climate change and global warming. CU professor and fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Roger Pielke, Jr., will answer your questions. Pielke has written several books on the topic. Read more ...

 

18 May 2011

Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance: Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges

Max Boykoff, Lisa Dilling, Christina Kirchhoff, and Kelli Archie are participating in the Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance to be held 17-20 May 2011 on the campus of Colorado State University in Fort Collins. This conference is part of a global series organized by the Earth System Governance Project, a ten-year research program under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Read more ...

 

16 May 2011

CSTPR's SPARC Project Highlighted in Nature Editorial

The May 2011 issue of Nature has an editorial about Ryan Myer's work under CSTPR's Science Policy Assessment and Research on Climate Project: Value judgements, The scientific endeavour needs to deliver public value, not just research papers. Ryan’s paper, The Public Values Failures of Climate Science in the US, was published in Minerva.

 

9 May 2011

Climate Fix Talk at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

On May 9 Roger Pielke, Jr. will be giving a talk on his 2010 Book The Climate Fix at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipziger. Read more ...

 

4 May 2011

University of Hamburg Lecture: Climate Science in a Democratic Society

On May 4 Roger Pielke, Jr. will be participating in a lecture at University of Hamburg on "Climate Science in a Democratic Society". Jerry Ravetz of Oxford University will give the keynote speech and Jeroen van der Slujs, Roger Pielke Jr., Hans von Storch, and Beate Ratter will be part of the discussion. Read more ...

 

29 April 2011

Campus 2 Congress with Colorado Congressman Jared Polis

On April 29 Colorado Congressman Jared Polis will be at CSTPR to talk to CU students and answer questions about climate politics and policy. Read more ...

 

22 April 2011

CIRES Science Rendezvous

On April 22 CSTPR participated in the sixth institute-wide CIRES Science symposium. The CIRES Members' Council planned a day of poster sessions and presentation to encourage collaborations that might result in new interdisciplinary research, and to facilitate connections among our many innovative scientists, science support staff, and administrative staff. View CSTPR Poster.

 

14 April 2011

Climate Fix Talks

On April 14 Roger Pielke, Jr. will be giving a talk at MIT Energy Club on his 2010 book The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming. On April 20 he will be also at University of Victoria, BC to talk about his book. Read more ...

 

15 March 2011

CU-Boulder Environmental Sciences Graduate Program Earns National Ranking

Graduate programs at the University of Colorado Boulder continue to earn national prominence based on the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report. US News and World Report's 2012 edition of "Best Graduate Schools" ranked CU-Boulder's environmental sciences program 5th in the country. Read more ...

 

25 February 2011

American University Lecture: Science in Society Author Interview with Roger Pielke, Jr.

On February 25 Prof. Matthew Nisbet interviewed author Roger Pielke about his new book, Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming. In it Pielke contends that whenever environmental and economic objectives are placed in opposition to each other, economic concerns always rule. Co-sponsored by CAS and SOC, this was part of the Spring 2011 Science and Society Film and Lecture Series. Read more ...

 

27 January 2011

Upcoming 2011 Illahee Lecture: Fixing Climate Through Energy Innovation by Roger Pielke, Jr.

On February 3, 2011 Roger Pielke, Jr. will be part of Portland-based 2011 Illahee Lectures: Innovation for Public Good". The series includes thought leaders in climate policy, sustainability, biotechnology, food systems, economics and governance. Read more ...

 

21 December 2010

Live Radio Discussion Today with Roger Pielke, Jr. and Al Teich on Science Integrity Guidelines

On December 21 Roger Pielke, Jr. will be on the Patt Morrison show on Southern California Public Radio at 1:40 Pacific time appearing with Al Teich of the AAAS to discuss the guidelines for scientific integrity released by the Obama Administration last week. Read more ...

 

21 December 2010

The Nature Conservancy Praises The Climate Fix

Peter Kareiva, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy, reviews The Climate Fix (PDF) and concludes that it is, "the best climate book I have read."

 

8 December 2010

The American Society of Landscape Architects listed "The Climate Fix" as One of the Best Books of 2010

Roger Pielke, Jr.'s book The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming listed as one of the best books of 2010 by The American Society of Landscape Architects.

 

30 November 2010

Roger Pielke, Jr. Participating in Upcoming "bridges Lecture Series" event, Embassy of Austria

The Office of Science & Technology (OST) at the Embassy of Austria is hosting a "bridges Lecture Series" event on the occasion of Roger A. Pielke Jr.'s new book The Climate Fix on December 14, 2010. Roger A. Pielke Jr. will be joined in the debate on Global Climate Change Policy by experts David Goldston (Natural Research Defense Council) and Alexander Ochs (Wordwatch Institute), to discuss the challenges of addressing climate change effectively from a US, European, and global perspective with the audience. Read more ...

 

29 November 2010

COP16 Panels | Covering Climate in a Changing Media Climate and Climate Change and Cities: Science for Adaptation and Mitigation

Max Boykoff and Benjamin Hale are participating in panel discussions at The sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP16). Thursday, December 2 Panel is on "Covering Climate in a Changing Media Climate" and Friday, December 3 Panel is on "Climate change and cities: Science for adaptation and mitigation". Read more ...

 

17 November 2010

Fixing Climate Policy
LSE Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events Public Lecture

The London School of Economics and Political Science is hosting a Public Lecture on November 17, 2010 with Roger Pielke, Jr. titled "Fixing Climate Policy". Read more ...

 

5 November 2010

The Legatum Institute's Book Forum: Peiser vs. Pielke

The Legatum Institute in London is hosting a Book Forum on November 16 with Roger Pielke, Jr. and Benny Peiser titled "The Climate Fix? What should the government subsidise? Renewables, R&D, or neither?". Read more ...

 

2 November 2010

Two Pielke Talks at the University of Wisconsin This Week

Roger Pielke, Jr. will be giving two talks at University of Wisconsin this week as part of his 2010 Book Tour for The Climate Fix. Watch his November 4 talk streamed live. Read more ...

 

26 October 2010

Upcoming Special Event at Purdue University on November 3: Beyond "Climategate" Panel

Roger Pielke, Jr. will be on a panel with Judy Curry of Georgia Tech and Andrew Revkin of Pace University and the NY Times at Purdue University on November 3, 2010. Read more ...

 

25 October 2010

Upcoming Special Event at University of Michigan: The Climate Fix: A Pragmatic Future for Climate Change on October 25

Roger Pielke, Jr. will discuss new book, The Climate Fix, at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy on October 25, 2010. Richard B. Rood, Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences at University of Michigan, will be the commentator. Read more ...

 

22 October 2010

Benjamin Hale Presented on "Moral Hazards and Geoengineering" at the October 2010 Missoula Workshop on Ethics of Solar Radiation Management

Benjamin Hale presented on Moral Hazards and Geoengineering at October 2010 Workshop on "The Ethics of Geoengineering: Investigating the Moral Challenges of Solar Radiation Management" held in Missoula, MT. Read More ...

 

20 October 2010

CSTPR Grad Student David Cherney was awarded The 2010 McDougal Prize of the Society for Policy Science

David Cherney was awarded the The 2010 McDougal Prize of the Society for Policy Science for his article (co-authored with Susan G. Clark), The American West’s Longest Large Mammal Migration: Clarifying and Securing the Common Interest. This article was published in Policy Sciences. Read more ...

 

18 October 2010

Roger Pielke, Jr. will be discussing "The Climate Fix" in Seattle on October 18 and Tempe on October 19

Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr. presents his book The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming. Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Pielke says it’s not the fault of those that reject the Kyoto Protocol, but those who support it. Pielke offers a way to address climate policy by shifting the debate away from targets and towards a revolution in how the world’s economy is powered. Read more ...

 

15 October 2010

Upcoming Interview in San Francisco with Roger Pielke, Jr. and KQED's Gretchen Weber

What’s the most efficient way to minimize the impacts of climate change? Public policy? Massive funding of new technology? Buying off emerging countries that will soon emit most of the world’s carbon pollution? Join the discussionon October 15 at the SF Club Office in San Francisco. Read more ...

 

28 September 2010

Roger Pielke, Jr. Participating in Special Washington DC Event "Climate Collapse - and the Climate Fix"

What Comes After Copenhagen, Climategate, Cap and Trade? Join a conversation on October 11, 2010 between Time Magazine reporter Bryan Walsh and political scientist Roger Pielke, Jr., author of the forthcoming The Climate Fix, as they discuss what comes next for global warming policy and politics. Read more ...

 

27 September 2010

CSTPR Affiliate Lisa Keränen's book "Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Reseach" is now available

Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: “Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade.” Read more ...

 

14 September 2010

"The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming" by Roger Pielke, Jr. is now available

The world's response to climate change is deeply flawed. "The Climate Fix" offers something new to the climate-change discussion - a common sense perspective. A thought-provoking yet pragmatic discussion of the interaction between science and politics. This book is where we begin to get it back on track. Read more ...

 

9 August 2010

"Presidential Science Advisors: Perspectives and Reflections on Science, Policy and Politics" edited by Roger Pielke, Jr. and Roberta Klein is now available

For the past 50 years a select group of scientists has provided advice to the US President, mostly out of the public eye, on issues ranging from the deployment of weapons to the launching of rockets to the moon to the use of stem cells to cure disease. The role of the presidential science advisor came under increasing scrutiny during the administration of George W. Bush, which was highly criticized by many for its use (and some say, misuse) of science. Read more ...

 

4 August 2010

8th Environmental Policy Conference of the Washington Policy Center

Roger Pielke, Jr. gave the keynote talk at the 8th Environmental Policy Conference of the Washington Policy Center. Roger Pielke's talk starts at 17:30 in the video above. Read more ...

 

28 July 2010

Leading Environmental Communications Researchers and Practitioners to Share Ideas at AEJMC Conference

Denver, a city at the vanguard of environmental awareness and innovation, will host this year’s Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference. Two conference panels will offer in-depth analysis of current trends in environmental communication. These events will bring together academic researchers (including CSTPR's Max Boykoff) from multiple disciplines and practitioners from different perspectives, providing a unique opportunity to explore developing trends and exchange ideas on best practices. The presentations will take place on Tuesday, August 3, and Thursday, August 5, at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel. Read full announement.

 

12 July 2010

Announcing the New CSTPR Site!

The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research recently released its new website. The new site has an updated look as well as improved content and functionality, making it easy to find information about Center research, events, publications, and other activities. Many thanks to Rob Burris, Teri Hoyer, Lisa Ho and Ami Nacu-Schmidt for all their hard work on the website revision. Please contact Ami Nacu-Schmidt, with questions or comments.

 

22 April 2010

CSTPR Graduate Students and Alumni receive various 2010 fellowships!

CSTPR graduate student David Cherney was awarded the Morris K. Udall Dissertation Fellowship for 2010. The Udall Foundation awards two one-year fellowships of up to $24,000 to doctoral candidates whose research concerns U.S. environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution and who are entering their final year of writing the dissertation.

CSTPR graduate student Shali Mohleji was awarded the Summer Graduate School Fellowship which is a new fellowship of the University of Colorado-Boulder Graduate School. The fellowship is awarded to ten doctoral candidates and provides support for students to pursue their dissertation during the summer term.

CSTPR alumi Ursula Rick recently accepted an American Geological Institute (AGI) Congressional Geoscience Fellowship starting this fall. She will work in a member office (Senator or Representative) or on a committee staff (e.g. House Science Committee or Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee).

 

9 April 2010

Center's SPARC project releases new handbook for Science Policy Decision Makers: Usable Science: A Handbook for Science Policy Decision Makers

In 2010, the United States’ government will spend over $150 billion on research and development. What gets done with that enormous sum has important implications for the wide variety of problems facing our society. Decisions on challenges like national defense, environmental change, rapid urbanization and public health rely on scientific knowledge to inform them. Given the complexity and the significance of such challenges, how can science funders effectively orient a vast research enterprise to make real progress toward desired social goals? Read full announcement.

 

2 April 2010

Lisa Dilling recently received a new NOAA SARP award

"Evaluating adaptive policies for urban water resource management: Interactions between short-term drought responses and long-term climate change adaptation strategies". Read full announcement.

 

19 February 2010

CSTPR Affiliate Paul Komor has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation

Dr. Komor will research how renewable electricity production (such as that from wind and solar PV) can be integrated into large-scale electricity systems. This NSF grant comes through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, and is intended to promote closer collaboration between Universities and small businesses. Paul will be working with Homer Energy LLC, a small Boulder-based start-up, to look at scenarios of high renewables penetration and their impacts on the grid.

 

8 February 2010

Has global warming increased the toll of natural disasters?

Listen to the debate with Roger Pielke, Jr., Bob Ward and Robert Muir-Wood at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. (scroll to the bottom of the ‘talking point’).

 

2 February 2010

Roger Pielke, Jr. appeared on BBC Newsnight with Professor Chris Field, the (new) head of IPCC Working Group II. Please read Roger's blog on his BBC Newsnight interview.

 

11 December 2009

David Cherney has recently launched a new blog

The Counter Offensive: Policy Science, and the Environment.

 

6 November 2009

Climate change and journalistic norms paper by Max Boykoff was selected for Geoforum's 40th anniversary special issue

The paper "Climate change and journalistic norms: A case-study of US mass-media coverage" is also listed as the fifth most downloaded paper in the journal here.

 

5 November 2009

Volume 12, Issue 3 of the journal Ethics, Place & Environment (co-edited by Benjamin Hale and Andrew Light) is now out

This edition of the journal features an article on Greenhouse Development Rights.

 

1 October 2009

Benjamin Hale has recently launched a new blog

Cruel Mistress-Being Human on a Harsh Planet.

 

28 September 2009

News Media Coverage on Climate Change Project

This figure tracks newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming in 50 newspapers across 20 countries and 6 continents. Max Boykoff and Maria Mansfield first assembled this figure while conducting research at the University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute. They continue to update this figure on a monthly basis as a resource for journalists, researchers, and others who may be interested in tracking these trends. The chart contains data up to approximately six weeks from the present time, due to the timings of when some newspapers' articles are made available through search engines. Read more on this project.

 

24 June 2009

New Western Water Assessment-funded project

The Center now has a new Western Water Assessment-funded project, "A Drought Impact and Vulnerability Indicator Suite". This project will create a set of indicators for assessing the impacts of drought across different sectors (urban, agricultural, water, recreation), with the goal of developing both research-quality time series that can be normalized and analyzed for trends, and applied indicators that can help managers assess impacts and changing vulnerabilities. The search for and collection of indicators goes back a long way in impacts research, so there is a track record to build on. However, a lack of continuity, and changes in baselines, vulnerabilities, and monitoring programs, have made it difficult to develop indicators useful for inter-comparison. The project will canvass existing indicators and determine the appropriate time scales and geographical frameworks for measuring drought impacts and vulnerability, with an initial focus on the Interior West. Indicators data will be served on the Center and Western Water Assessment websites. Contact: Bill Travis.

 

15 June 2009

Prometheus Blog to be Retired

As of July 31, the Center will retire its science policy weblog, Prometheus. The Prometheus archives will remain available. We would like to thank the readers of Prometheus for their support over the past five years. Roger Pielke, Jr. has created a new blog on science, policy and politics at http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com.

 

1 June 2009

New Faculty Member to Join Center

Max Boykoff will be joining our Center as a faculty member in August 2009. Max was a Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), as well as a Department Lecturer in the School of Geography and the Environment, at the University of Oxford. His interests include the cultural politics of climate change and transformations of carbon-based economies and societies.