Pielke Radio Discussion: Separating the Politics from the Science, Obama Administration Releases New Guidelines

Roger Pielke, Jr. appeared on Southern California Public Radio's Patt Morrison show with Al Teich of the AAAS to discuss the Obama Administration's guidelines for scientific integrity. Listen online.

The Nature Conservancy and the American Society of Landscape Architects praise The Climate Fix

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

The American Society of Landscape Architects included The Climate Fix as "One of the Best Books of 2010." Read more ...

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Special Events

On February 24 Roger Pielke, Jr. gave a talk at the World Bank's PREM Seminar Series on his book The Climate Fix. This talk is available to watch online.

On February 4, David Goldston, Director of Government Affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, gave a distinguished lecture "Loving Science to Death: Problems at the Intersection of Science and Policy" at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder. A video of his talk will be made available soon on CSTPR's Multimedia webpage.

On December 14 the Office of Science & Technology (OST) at the Embassy of Austria hosted a "bridges Lecture Series" to discuss Roger A. Pielke Jr.'s new book The Climate Fix. Roger was joined by experts David Goldston (Natural Resources Defense Council) and Alexander Ochs (Wordwatch Institute), to discuss the challenge of addressing climate change effectively from a US, European, and global perspective. View photo gallery of the event.

In December 2010 Maxwell Boykoff and Benjamin Hale participated in panel discussions at The Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP16) on "Covering Climate in a Changing Media Climate" and "Climate Change and Cities: Science for adaptation and mitigation". Click here to view a video of Max Boykoff interviewed at COP16.

Center Publications

The Environmental Program Movement as a Policy Problem
Clark, S.G., M.B. Rutherford, M.R. Auer, D.N. Cherney, R.L. Wallace, D.J. Mattson, D.A. Clark, L. Foote, N. Krogman, P. Wilshusen, and T. Steelman, 2011. College and university environmental programs as a policy problem (part 1): Integrating knowledge, education, and action for a better world?. Environmental Management, doi: 10.1007/s00267-011-9619-2.

Building Unity in the Environmental Program Movement
Clark, S.G., M.B. Rutherford, M.R. Auer, D.N. Cherney, R.L. Wallace, D.J. Mattson, D.A. Clark, L. Foote, N. Krogman, P. Wilshusen, and T. Steelman, 2011. College and university environmental programs as a policy problem (part 2): Strategies for improvement. Environmental Management, doi: 10.1007/s00267-011-9635-2.

Reevaluating the History of Building Damage and Loss of Life Due to Australian Wildfires
Crompton, R. P., K. J. McAneney, K. Chen, R. A. Pielke Jr., and K. Haynes, 2010. Influence of location, population and climate on building damage and fatalities due to Australian bushfire: 1925-2009. Weather, Climate, and Society 2 300-310, doi: 10.1175/2010WCAS1063.1.

Examining the Signals of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Disaster Data
Crompton, R.P., R.A. Pielke Jr., and K.J. McAneney, 2011. Emergence timescales for detection of anthropogenic climate change in US tropical cyclone loss data. Environmental Research Letters 6, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014003.

Opportunities for Improvement in Enhancing the Usability of Science for Decision Making
Dilling, L. and M.C. Lemos, 2010. Creating usable science: Opportunities and constraints for climate knowledge use and their implications for science policy. Global Environmental Change, doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.11.006.

Evaluating the Roles 'New Media' Plays in Engaging Audiences with Climate Change
O’Neill, S.J. and M. Boykoff, 2010. The role of new media in engaging the public with climate change. Chapter 13 In L. Whitmarsh, S.J. O’Neill, and I. Lorenzoni (Ed.), Engaging the Public with Climate Change: Communication and Behaviour Change, Earthscan, London.

Should the Government Have a Say in Setting Technological Standards in the Marketplace?
Pielke, Jr., R. A., 2011. Let there be more efficient light. New York Times, March 10.

Why a Global agreement to Reduce Emissions Will Always Remain a Year Away
Pielke, Jr., R. A., 2010. Beyond the Annual Climate Confab. Bridges, OST's Publication on Science and Technology Policy, Volume 28.

Examining How Sea Level Rise Projections Have Been Represented in US and UK Newspapers
Rick, U.K., M.T. Boykoff, and R.A. Pielke, Jr. 2011.Effective media reporting of sea level rise projections: 1989–2009. Effective media reporting of sea level rise projections: 1989–2009. Environmental Research Letters 6 (1), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014004.

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