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Public Opinion, the Media and Climate Change

February 6, 2012 by Joseph Romm
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A must-read study published Monday in the journal Climatic Change debunks some pervasive myths about public opinion and climate change. The lead author, Dr. Robert J. Brulle of Drexel University, gave me an exclusive interview. [read more]

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Was The IPCC Renewables Report Hijacked By Its Press Release?

August 30, 2011 by David Lewis
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Remember when the news was that the IPCC had announced that renewables could power the world by 2050?  There has been a bizzaro controversy over this.  Prominent voices from across the spectrum of opinion on climate science weighed in on the same side.   A world class odd couple, Steve McIntyre and Mark Lynas, agreed... [read more]

WORLDbytes – After Fukushima: The Fear Factor

August 25, 2011 by Rod Adams
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    I received a comment yesterday through the Atomic Insights Contact link telling me about a recently produced video titled After Fukushima: The Fear Factor. The source described the work as a report on the media frenzy in the UK following the tsunami attack on the Fukushima region of Japan. As the video describes, less... [read more]

Fighting For Nuclear

July 11, 2011 by Rod Adams
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The Atlanta Progressive News published an article titled Georgia PSC Can’t Silence Nuclear Power Debate describing how dedicated antinuclear activists disrupted a recent meeting held by the Georgia Public Service Commission. The scheduled topic of the meeting was a discussion about risk sharing in the case of potential cost overruns for... [read more]

UMW: Messaging A Clean-Energy Future

July 1, 2011 by A Siegel
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When it comes to discussing the value and power of a clean-energy future, in a way that touches core values and life-experiences of a good share of Americans, perhaps it is time to think and speak UMW.  No … not the United Mine Workers.  Instead,  when we think UMW and energy, we should turn to three “institutions”... [read more]

Media Misinformation Promotes Dysfunctional Energy Policy

June 21, 2011 by Robert Rapier
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 Over the years I have had some enlightening interactions with the news media. I have gradually developed the view that many in the media believe their role is more to entertain than to inform. My naive younger self believed that the media generally presents objective information, which is important to ensure that a well-informed... [read more]

Questions About News Media Fundamentals and Fukushima

June 3, 2011 by Dan Yurman
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The nuclear industry needs to understand that confidence building following the crisis in Japan is a global challenge The IAEA preliminary report on the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station in Japan is just the first of what will turn out to be a series of reviews of what went wrong and what needs to be done in the future.... [read more]

National Academy of Sciences Slams Flawed Media Coverage of Climate

May 16, 2011 by Joseph Romm
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Last week I blogged on the major new climate report from the National Academy of Sciences, which called on nation to “substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions” starting ASAP. A commenter pointed out a paragraph I missed buried on page 35 in the brief discussion of how “Many factors complicate and impede public understanding of... [read more]

VIDEO: Belief Formation- Mooney & Kay on MSNBC

April 29, 2011 by Michael Tobis
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I don't usually care for the intellectual bandwidth of audio and video chats on commercial media but here's an impressive exception, about conspiracy thinking and denialism, following neatly on some of my observations about belief formation yesterday.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyAnother related... [read more]

Solving PR Challenges In The Energy Sector

April 15, 2011 by Kate Garratt
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Developments in the energy sector directly impact on the global economy, the environment and everyday life. And, like most industries, the energy sector has important messages it needs to communicate to governments, businesses and consumers.PR provides a valuable, engaging and cost-effective platform for getting these messages across. It... [read more]

When Man Does Not Bite Dog Is News

April 2, 2011 by Dan Yurman
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So when the New York Times writes that U.S. nuclear utilities are complying with requirements from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regarding the control hydrogen in reactor pressure vessels, why is that news? But if an anti-nuclear group claims that the NRC’s requirement itself it unsafe,does that make it news? Maybe. [read more]

Canadians More Likely than Americans to Believe in Climate Change?

February 23, 2011 by Scott Edward Anderson
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More Canadians than Americans believe climate change is real, according to two surveys of public opinion on climate change commissioned by the Public Policy Forum and Sustainable Prosperity. Their findings indicate that belief in climate change among Canadians outpaces that among residents of the United States. In Canada, 80 per... [read more]

The Media’s Role in the Range Fuels Fiasco

February 17, 2011 by Robert Rapier
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Join the forum discussion on this post  Now that it seems that the mainstream media has finally caught on to the fact that something went terribly awry at Range Fuels, it is time for me to close the book on them. This will be my last Range Fuels story, but I think there is a lesson to be learned here. Waiting Until The Fat Lady... [read more]

Finding journalistic excellence in the nuclear industry: my proposal

January 1, 2011 by Dan Yurman
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There is no shortage of coverage. The question is how good is it? This is a proposal for the American Nuclear Society (ANS) to annually make awards to the mainstream news media for excellence in coverage of nuclear science, engineering, and the global industry. (see disclaimer below) The purpose of the award(s) is to recognize... [read more]

Climate rapid response communications team gears up - Scientists get off the sidelines to right media wrongs

November 16, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Last week, Dr. John Abraham of St. Thomas University helped launch a “climate rapid response team.”  CAP’s Sean Pool interviewed Abraham about this effort in this Science Progress cross-post.  It’s not easy being a climate scientist these days. They live in a world where well-funded organizations collude to spread lies and... [read more]