Guest Thinkers

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18412710.gif]In conjunction with Earth Day, a number of major survey results have been released on global warming, energy, and the environment. The latest is a survey from Gallup that […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18414284.gif]As I’ve noted, in places like Canada and Europe, nuclear energy has been successfully reframed as an important “middle way” compromise solution in the debate over what to do […]

Before leaving the Massachusetts’ Governor’s office, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney added regulatory language to a legislative bill that was originally intended to only prohibit the creation of embryos for […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18578880.jpg]On April 10, the Poynter Institute is set to release it’s latest “eye tracking” study of how readers navigate the printed and online news page. The preview of the […]

My focus on the striking partisan differences in perceptions about the urgency and science of global warming has generated serious buzz at the NY Daily News, the Huffington Post, and […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18412556.jpg]Florida and Ohio State face off tonight in the Men’s NCAA basketball championship, a re-match of January’s national title game in football. Both schools feature the best athletics programs […]

At the NY Times, Michael Crichton reviews Jerome Groopman’s new book, a compilation of his medical essays from the New Yorker. Crichton’s review is worth reading, and two themes familiar […]

The Free University Berlin has an associate professor opening in Science Communication, as part of their Department of Political and Social Sciences and their Institute of Media and Communication Studies. […]

On April 24, investigative reporter Brooks Jackson and UPenn professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson are set to release a new book that is sure to be of interest to Framing Science […]

Despite the ever growing scientific consensus about the nature and urgency of global warming, Americans remain more divided politically on the matter than at anytime in history. The reason is […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18414079.jpg] Back in February, I described how the first release of the IPCC was a massive communication failure, never really landing on the wider media or public agenda. In […]

In his response to the Supreme Court ruling, President Bush framed any policy action in familiar terms, emphasizing the “unfair economic burden” placed on the U.S. by any “cap and […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18412561.jpg]Everywhere you look, polarized views from the tail ends of the bell curve of opinion on climate change are being picked up by the media. Indeed, only at a […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18413407.png]When knowledge challenges values or cuts against preferred policies, you attack the messenger, and then invent your own rival knowledge. That’s been the playbook for the conservative movement over […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18412522.gif]The next hurricane season is only a few months away, and when it comes to the possible link between global warming and more intense storms, according to a just […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18415754.jpg]As Earth Day approaches, expect a number of major polling reports on American views of global warming. I recently had a study accepted at Public Opinion Quarterly that analyzes […]

My quick summary reaction to Bill Broad’s provocativeNY Timesarticle surveying a few scientists and social scientists’ opinions on Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth:1) Just like in politics generally, science-related blogs can […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18416011.gif]By way of the Internet, Americans today have more public affairs and science-related information available to them than at any time in history. Yet the availability of information does […]

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/v/6h3G-lMZxjo]As I’ve previously written, expect 2008 to be defined as the YouTube election, as campaigns generate online and conversational buzz by placing innovative ads on the video sharing site, […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18412575.jpg] All eyes today are on Capitol Hill as former VP Al Gore testifies before Congress on global warming. Bill Broad’s NY Times’ article last week has launched a […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18412233.gif]Gallup’s annual Earth Day survey of public attitudes on the environment is out today, and the results are consistent with the patterns revealed across other surveys this year. In […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18413219.gif]The NY Daily Newsspotlights yesterday’s post on the “Two Americas of Global Warming Perceptions” as among the Web’s best.

An initiative that I have been pitching in talks across the country (for example, go here, here, and here), has been proposed for official funding in Congress. Stay tuned for […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18413539.gif] As I have detailed at Framing Science many times, over the past five years, as Democrats and Independents have shifted their views in support of embryonic stem cell […]

Over at The Intersection, Chris Mooney elaborates on a recent post to his blog that hits on many of the themes first explored at Framing Science, as well as in […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18415624.gif]Update your RSS feeds, there’s a major new blog on the scene that is worth reading. Framing Conflict was launched a few months back, with a focus on the […]

At the beginning of the spring semester, I noted that the Political Communication Seminar at the University of Virginia and the English 12 course at UNC-Chapel Hill were making use […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18412297.gif]In the week following the Friday, Feb. 2 release of the Fourth IPCC report on global climate change, few if any Americans reported that global warming was the issue […]

[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18416179.jpg] Where have you heard this one before? Back in September, Canada’s Environment Minister John Baird echoed the predictions of a university economist when he claimed that if Canada […]

The major news organizations, especially the big three cable news networks, need a crash courses in ethics. Given all the major issues taking place in the world, how can they […]