Category Archives: New Publications

Prevalence & Rationale for Presenting Opposing Viewpoint in Climate Change Reporting

Posted on November 7, 2019 by prometheus

Findings from a United States national survey of TV weathercasters by K.M. Timm, E.W. Maibach, M. Boykoff, T.A. Myers, and M.A. Broeckelman-Post, Weather, Climate, and Society (2019) doi: 10.1175/WCAS-D-19-0063.1 Abstract: The journalistic norm of balance bas been described as the … Continue reading →

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Photo Essay: The Endless Hurricane

Posted on October 9, 2019 by prometheus

Documenting Life in the Shelters, After Maria Hit Dominica by Fernando Briones, CSTPR Research AffiliateDisaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 28 No. 5, 2019 Why a photo essay? Photography has always been an important tool for social scientists. Today, the pictures’s … Continue reading →

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Leave ‘em Laughing Instead of Crying

Posted on September 30, 2019 by prometheus

Climate humor can break down barriers and find common ground by Max BoykoffThe Conversation Climate change is not inherently funny. Typically, the messengers are serious scientists describing how rising greenhouse gas emissions are harming the planet on land and at sea, or assessing what … Continue reading →

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The Critical Role of Communities of Practice and Peer Learning in Scaling Hydroclimatic Information Adoption

Posted on September 25, 2019 by prometheus

by Rebecca Page and Lisa DillingWeather, Climate, and Society (September 2019) Photo: The Colorado River winds through the Western Slope town of DeBeque, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post. Abstract: Significant effort has been put into advancing the use … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Countermovement Organizations and Media Attention in the United States

Posted on August 6, 2019 by prometheus

by Max Boykoff and Justin Farrell Chapter 7 in Climate Change Denial and Public Relations: Strategic communication and interest groups in climate inaction edited by Núria Almiron and Jordi Xifra, Routledge (2019) Introduction: How influential has the right-wing think tank … Continue reading →

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Distributional impacts of the North Dakota gas flaring policy

Posted on August 1, 2019 by prometheus

A drilling area in North Dakota can be seen in this nighttime image of the United States. The Electricity Journal (2019)by Utkarsh Srivastava, David Oonk, Ian Lange, and Morgan Bazilian Abstract: This paper considers whether the reform of North Dakota’s … Continue reading →

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Is Adaptation Success a Flawed Concept?

Posted on August 1, 2019 by prometheus

Universally applicable notions of climate adaptation success are not realistic—adaptation is ever-changing, and implemented at local levels with wildly different baseline conditions. In a new Nature comment, CSTPR faculty Lisa Dilling and international colleagues ask: is adaptation success a flawed … Continue reading →

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Just Released: Creative (Climate) Communications

Posted on July 10, 2019 by prometheus

Creative (Climate) Communications: Productive Pathways for Science, Policy and Societyby Maxwell Boykoff Cambridge University Press, 2019 Conversations about climate change at the science-policy interface and in our lives have been stuck for some time. This handbook integrates lessons from the … Continue reading →

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MeCCO Monthly Summary: Rights to Life, Liberty, Property, and Public Trust Resources

Posted on July 9, 2019 by prometheus

Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO)June 2019 Summary June media attention to climate change and global warming roughly doubled from June 2018, while trending slightly lower (-9%) from high levels in May 2019. At the country level, coverage was notably up … Continue reading →

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Communicating Climate Change Effectively and Creatively

Posted on July 5, 2019 by prometheus

fifteeneightyfour, Academic Perspective from Cambridge University Pressby Max Boykoff Lately, climate change has been unmistakably present in the public sphere. An evident swirl of extreme events linked to changes in the climate, new scientific research on climate change, Youth Climate … Continue reading →

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