Making Science Public

Tag: Science Communication

  • Climate communication conundrums

    Climate communication conundrums

    After climategate in 2009 I was reflecting on what this episode (which sort of opened the ‘door’ for the current climate ‘wars’) may mean for climate change communication. One thing struck me at the time: that climategate can be used to rhetorically flip previous (contrarian) discourses around climate change and climate science on their heads.…

  • Climategate, media volume and public concerns – what’s the relation?

    Climategate, media volume and public concerns – what’s the relation?

    In my last blog I promised some further discussion of the link between media volume and public concern about climate change. This is what today’s blog is about, based on some work I carried out with a former MA student, Alan Valdez. Discussions about the agenda-setting power of the media, particularly in the context of…