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Climate Change and the Power of Narrative

March 14, 2015 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, climate communication, climate policy, climate science, global warming | 99 comments

https://mandikaye.com/blog/bzv2we85rq In 2013, a psychology professor reviewing Malcolm Gladwell’s latest best-selling book was critical of the author’s modus operandi: He excels at telling just-so stories and cherry-picking science to back them. That charge had been percolating for a while, but people were suddenly paying more attention to it, including science journalists. After the WSJ review triggered a larger debate on… Buy Authentic Xanax Online Continue Reading…

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Drilling Down into the Connection Researchers are Making Between Climate Change and Conflict

March 5, 2015 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, energy security, global warming | 44 comments

The Carbon Brief, a UK website created in 2011, is a destination for many seeking non-partisan information and analysis on climate change related news and research. I like the neutral tone of the articles and the comprehensive perspective it offers on controversial issues, such as the state of the science on polar bears and, in a similar vein, the growing… https://inteligencialimite.org/2024/08/07/ke1fce4 Continue Reading…

Narrow Media Coverage of Study linking Climate Change to Syria Conflict Misses Fractious Debate on a Field's Scholarship

March 4, 2015 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Uncategorized | 18 comments

https://oevenezolano.org/2024/08/y7e7gnf5 This week a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) received widespread media coverage. The paper’s takeaway was tweeted by all those reporting on it. The drought that sparked Syria’s civil war has been linked to climate change. My story: http://t.co/UOTb50ye0B pic.twitter.com/nIcPD6rb9J — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) March 2, 2015 New study,… https://www.clawscustomboxes.com/xc3yeburcw Continue Reading…

California Must Reckon With Its Long History of Drought

January 27, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in California, drought, environment, select | 22 comments

Xanax Legally Online In recent days and weeks, we’ve been seeing similar-sounding headlines out of California, such as this: Sacramento breaks 130-year old for low rainfall And this: LA is on track to set dry-weather record Indeed, as my fellow Discover blogger Tom Yulsman noted last month: We’ll have to wait a couple of weeks for the official year-end precipitation… Continue Reading…

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New Drought Study Is Huge. Media Yawns. Why?

November 15, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, drought | 57 comments

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When Opinion Leaders Don't Lead

August 17, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, climate politics, drought | 344 comments

In a New York Times op-ed, Charles Fishman writes: We’re in the worst drought in the United States since the 1950s, and we’re wasting it. Though the drought has devastated corn crops and disrupted commerce on the Mississippi River, it also represents an opportunity to tackle long-ignored water problems and to reimagine how we manage,… Alprazolam Buy Uk Continue Reading…

Could We Survive a 30-year Drought?

July 26, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Archaeology, climate change, drought | 26 comments

If you had time to read only one scholarly paper on drought, I’d suggest this one (published in 2007) by Cook et al. It’s a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary overview that amply supports this assertion made in the first sentence of the abstract: Severe drought is the greatest recurring natural disaster to strike North America. The Cook… https://eloquentgushing.com/uoiomqe Continue Reading…

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Paying Attention to the History of Climate Change

January 11, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, drought | 155 comments

https://homeupgradespecialist.com/8a0bps9nrf One of the unfortunate consequences of the hyperbolic, circumscribed climate change discourse (It’s all hoax, No it’s not!) is that we don’t pay enough attention to the climate change that did happen in prehistory, specifically the mega-droughts that combined with other factors to cripple ancient empires. These are complicated stories that are still being puzzled… Continue Reading…

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Oh, the Horror!

January 1, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in drought | 28 comments

https://inteligencialimite.org/2024/08/07/ce1k02ow In north Texas, a resident blanches at the idea of major water restrictions kicking in because of the area’s drought: In Garland, it’s a major concern for resident Charlotte Piercy, who has lived in her neighborhood for 56 years. Piercy already hates her grass looking brown because of the Winter, but she fears, come the… Continue Reading…

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These Bristlecones Are Talking

November 17, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Archaeology, climate change, drought | 48 comments

https://sugandhmalhotra.com/2024/08/07/qzfttps0dbk And they have a message: Researchers say they have found new evidence of prolonged drought in parts of the West, suggesting megadroughts are not the rarity Westerners would like them to be. Of course, there is already ample evidence for Westerners not to think this, but c’mon, who remembers what they had for dinner on Tuesday,… Continue Reading…