Briefing #4, 12 September 2006
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In 2006, we launched a new email briefing about our Center’s science policy work. We are working to improve how science and technology policies address societal needs. Please let us know what information you might like to receive by emailing us.

About the Center

Center Highlights

• Roger Pielke, Jr. has been awarded the Eduard Brückner Prize for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate science.

Prometheus is the Center’s weblog. Recent posts:

• Ceding the Ethical Ground on Stem Cells

• Do the Ends Justify the Means?

• If “Science of Science Policy” is the answer, then what is the question?

• Hurricanes, Catastrophe Models, and Global Warming

Sample of Recent Publications:

• Bringing together climate change, communication, and social change:
  Moser, S.C. and L. Dilling (in press). Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change. Cambridge University Press, in press.

• Is it time to rethink NASA as an institution?
  Pielke, Jr., R.A., 2006. How to Break up NASA. Bridges, Vol. 10, June.

• "Take Home Points" on Climate Change:
  Pielke, Jr., R.A., 2006. Statement to the Committee on Government Reform of the United States House of Representatives, Hearing on Climate Change: Understanding the Degree of the Problem, 20 July.

All articles are available via download from our website or can be requested by email.