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[Bianca Singletary]

HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL UPCOMING EVENT


The Public Divide over Climate Change: 


Science, Skeptics and the Media


 

 Nye B-C, Fifth Floor Taubman Building

February 4, 2010

12:00-2:00 p.m.

 

	
SPEAKERS:

 <http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/author/andrew-c-revkin/> Andrew Revkin:
The New York Times "Dot Earth" blogger and journalist; senior fellow, Pace
University Academy for Applied Environmental Studies

 <http://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/nisbet.cfm> Matthew Nisbet: Assistant
Professor, American University School of Communication; "Framing Science"
blogger; climate change public opinion expert

 <http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/thomas-patterson>
Thomas Patterson (discussant): Bradlee Professor of Government and the
Press, Shorenstein Center, HKS

Moderator:
<http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/experts/944/cristine_russell.html?back_
url=%2Fproject%2F43%2Fenvironment_and_natural_resources.html%3Fpage_id%3D101
%26page%3D3&back_text=Back+to+Environment+and+Natural+Resources> Cristine
Russell, senior fellow, Belfer Center Environment and Natural Resources
Program

First in a new spring seminar series on "Climate Change & the Media,"
sponsored by the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program
and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Climate change coverage has greatly increased in the international
mainstream press and in the opinion-driven blogosphere in recent years,
including the recent focus on "Climategate" science emails, the US
congressional debate and the United Nations Copenhagen conference. Surveys
show that the American public is among the most divided in terms of
agreement with scientific findings that climate change is a serious manmade
threat that requires urgent action in the United States and abroad.  The
public divide appears to be increasing in this country, the United Kingdom
and elsewhere.This seminar will focus on the role of the media in
communicating about climate change science, policy and politics to the
general public and the influence on public opinion. The seminar will look at
ways to improve the public dialogue over climate change.

 

All are welcome and invited to attend. Lunch will be served. Admittance will
be on a first-come, first serve basis.


Mark your calendars for two upcoming seminars: 

Thursday, March 4, 1:00-2:30 p.m. "Climate Policy and Politics: Covering
Conflict in the Capitol, Copenhagen and Beyond." Juliet Eilperin, The
Washington Post; Eric Pooley, Bloomberg.com. Nye BC, Taubman Building, 5th
Floor

Wednesday, March 31, 1:00-2:30 p.m. "Techno-Optimism or Pessimism: 'Fixing'
the Planet's Climate Problems." Bryan Walsh, Time magazine; Jeff Goodell,
Rolling Stone & The New York Times Magazine. Bell Hall, Belfer, 5th Floor

MORE
<http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/4247/public_divide_over_climate_
change.html> INFORMATION
-- 
CRISTINE RUSSELL, Senior fellow
Belfer Center for Science and International    
      Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
President, Council for the Advancement of    
      Science Writing
Contributing editor, Columbia Journalism  
      Review
203.912.7650 cell

 

 

 

 

 

 

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