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Richard Somerville: Concerns of a Climate Scientist

“What concerns me most about climate change now is the stark contrast between the apathy of the public and the troubling facts that we climate scientists have established and that President Obama clearly recognizes,” says climate scientist Richard Somerville. “We have a window of time within which we simply must act if we are serious about [...]

2018-10-26T13:20:02-04:00August 5th, 2013|Science-Policy Interaction|

Somerville Part 2: Six public guidelines for recognizing and rejecting junk climate science and disinformation

“Unfortunately, the world needs to take firm action about the threat of man­made climate change within the next decade,” says climate scientist Richard C. J. Somerville. “Realistically, there may be no chance to educate the general public in depth about the science so quickly. Meanwhile, a well-funded and effective professional disinformation campaign has been successful [...]

2018-10-26T13:34:25-04:00November 2nd, 2010|Climate Change Education and Communication|

Somerville Part 1: Better climate science education a task that “will take many years at best”

Widespread public ignorance of the science of climate and climate change results from a failure in science education, says atmospheric scientist Richard C. J. Somerville. In “How Much Should the Public Know About Climate Science?” – an editorial comment in the journal Climatic Change – Somerville concludes that a major change in science education is [...]

2018-10-26T13:34:25-04:00November 2nd, 2010|Climate Change Education and Communication|

Richard Somerville: A Response to Climate Change Denialism

Richard Somerville, a distinguished professor emeritus and research professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, issued a statement in response to a recent request to address claims recently made by climate change denialists. “Science…does not work by unqualified people making claims on television or the Internet,“ he says. “The first thing that the [...]

2018-10-26T13:38:25-04:00January 22nd, 2010|Global Warming Denial Machine|

Richard Somerville: Include climate change ethics and equity issues in science research agenda

“I am convinced that a scientific community that aspires to be helpful to society must include ethics and equity as an integral part of its research agenda,” writes Richard Somerville, a coordinating lead author of the IPCC 2007 climate change scientific assesment. “We should place greater emphasis on providing quantitative information relevant to the ethical [...]

2018-10-26T13:43:03-04:00June 8th, 2008|Science-Policy Interaction|

100+ scientists and economists call on Obama and Kerry to reject Keystone XL

From an open letter on April 7: “A critical first step is to stop making climate change worse by tapping into disproportionately carbon-intensive energy sources like tar sands bitumen. The Keystone XL pipeline will drive expansion of the energy-intensive strip-mining and drilling of tar sands from under Canada’s Boreal forest, increasing global carbon emissions. … [...]

2018-10-26T13:16:30-04:00April 8th, 2014|Energy, Science-Policy Interaction|

Keystone XL tar sands pipeline & the “National Interest”

U.S. Department of State headquarters, Washington, DC (Wikimedia Commons) The release of the State Department’s Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline initiates the final stage in the permitting process: the 90-day National Interest Determination. The multiple reasons to oppose granting a construction permit include an overriding national interest in [...]

Weekend Reading: Mandela and divestment; National Academy of Sciences on “Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change”; Hansen et al. on “Assessing ‘Dangerous Climate Change'”; denialists on AMS climate survey

A few highlights from our weekend reading: (1) Joe Romm at Climate Progress on “Nelson Mandela’s Legacy for Climate Hawks;” (2) Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises, a new report from the National Academy of Sciences; (3) “Assessing ‘Dangerous Climate Change’: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature,” a [...]

New Greenpeace report documents machinations of corporate-funded climate denial machine

The new Greenpeace report Dealing in Doubt: The Climate Denial Machine vs. Climate Science, updates an earlier report on the global warming denial machine and its attacks on climate science and scientists during the past two decades. The report focuses specifically on denialist campaigns against the IPCC, including current efforts by the Heartland Institute; the funding of [...]

2018-10-26T13:19:49-04:00September 12th, 2013|Global Warming Denial Machine|