It’s been a tragic end to the year for the profession of journalism with a fledgling reporter and a seasoned journo dying in unusual accidents. Helen Bain (38), the former Dominion Post reporter and Sunday Star Times political editor has been revealed as the woman who drowned when she fell from her horse attempting to […]
MoreScientists have today expressed everything from disgust to cautious optimism at the agreement cobbled together late in the night in Copenhagen. We wrapped up comment from a large number of scientists on the Science Media Centre website – here are a few samples: Dr Peter Barrett, Professor of Geology, affiliated with the Antarctic Research Centre […]
MoreThe idea of tapping off emissions from coal-fired power stations and pumping them into massive underground caverns has been getting a lot of attention as one potential option for reducing carbon emissions. But carbon sequestration has just been knocked back by the United Nations and won’t be included in the UN-backed Clean Development Mechanism at […]
MoreTVNZ’s Close Up show last night reverted to the reliable old Wishart vs Morgan set-up to frame a piece about Copenhagen and whether humans are contributing to climate change. You may recall a similar match-up on climate sceptic Leighton Smith’s Newstalk ZB show around the time Morgan launched his book Poles Apart. Only this one […]
MoreEither the hired help tasked with setting up the conference facilities for COP15 have been worked a little too hard or the organisers are looking to ghoulish artwork to make an impact on Obama and company when they turn up to talk emissions reduction. Photo courtesy of Nigel Kerby of the AusSMC, which is on […]
MoreChannel 4 News with the assistance of my colleagues at the Science Media Centre in London, approached the scientific community in the UK to get their views on how best to tackle climate change. Here’s what Channel 4 News asked scientists: “What idea, policy or technology holds the greatest promise for tackling climate change?” Their […]
MoreIt hasn’t been a great year for New Zealand’s genetic modification research efforts, even if viewed from a purely “PR” point of view. Last December, the anti-GM environmental group the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand had a poke around Crop & Food’s GM brassica trial going on at the company’s campus at Lincoln […]
MoreI’ve been looking for a good, easy to read document outlining the latest climate science research and putting it in context for Copenhagen and I think I’ve found it. Today in Sydney, the Climate Change Research Centre, a unit of the University of New South Wales, released The Copenhagen Diagnosis. It’s free to download or […]
MoreLast week again revealed one of the worst traits of the New Zealand media in its approach to covering climate change – giving people prime real estate to mouth off about climate-science realted subjects they are ill-equipped to comment on. Luckily, Herald readers aren’t as meek and gullible as Garth George estimates, as the letters […]
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