Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Post-Rio and Post-Copenhagen Media Cliffs

The graph below is from the work of Max Boykoff, a friend and colleague from here at CU, and Maria Mansfield, University of Exeter. The graph shows a big drop off in media attention to climate change in the aftermath of the Copenhagen conference last December.

Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics … and Graphs « Watts Up With That?

 Maybe you think this is a pressing concern which is the “defining issue of our era” (UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon).

I don’t.  I’m sorry, but for me, poverty and injustice and racial prejudice and totalitarian regimes and recurring warfare and a lack of clean drinking water and torture and rampant disease and lack of education and child prostitution and a host of other problems “vastly eclipse” the possibility of a degree or two of warming happening at night in the winter in the extra-tropics fifty years from now.

Nenana ice update: This year, eight days before the 1940 break-up date, it's still over 3.5 feet thick

12-April 44 Inches

Twitter / crikey

There's a survey on my intraweb, "Is rapid climate change man-made?" - NO is winning. If you knew who I worked for, you'd shudder.