Join us in wishing Phil Dooley (co-vice president of the ASC) all the best as he embarks on an exciting new job in Oxford with the Joint European Torus (JET) – Europe’s largest Fusion Device. Continue reading
Top scientist says extreme weather not linked to global warming. Is this a story taken out of context? A sceptic promoting an agenda? An anti carbon tax initiative? I would be interested to hear how climate change communicators address these types of messages?
http://www.littleurl.net/cd7
The conversation is doing a great job of following the Murdoch debacle. See this story and other commentary http://www.littleurl.net/850214
Interesting transcript, giving, I believe, some insight into what we can expect from our chief scientist. What do you think?
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3251029.htm
And some more insight here: http://theconversation.edu.au/ian-chubb-this-is-not-the-office-of-the-chief-climate-change-scientist-1982
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I recently visited the media140 conference in Brisbane a number of weeks ago. There I met Elena McMaster, the Nanotechnology Project Campaigner for Friends of the Earth Australia. As a science communicator for an NGO, I thought she might have an interesting perspective on science communication. We had been emailing, but finally had a chat […]
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First we have the complexities and uncertainties of science and then we introduce a bureaucratic process that can be inefficient and sometimes, incompetent.
I give you a prime example in the case of the Asian honey bee eradication program. Full story continues……
SENATE COMMITTEE ORDERS RECONVENING OF CCEPP TO CONTINUE ERADICATION PROGRAM FOR ASIAN […]