Author: glymey

Illustration on the false prophets of climate change by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times 

If you read this you could be better-liked, better looking, famous, wealthy, a winner in life. I envy communication people working in the traditional marketing and PR industries. They don’t have to tell the truth.

In science communication we tell the truth as we understand it, based on what we currently know from a rigorous and objective evidence base. As a result, few people welcome our messages, and this is why climate change is one of the most scrutinized areas of public policy science.

Continue reading “Dealing With Unwelcome Messages” →

One of the more unpleasant bits of my job as a science communicator is reading the climate change reporting of the Mail on Sunday in stories such as ‘Climate summit confirms global temperature stopped rising’ and ‘World’s top scientists confess global warming a quarter of what we thought’ , (the original headline was ‘is HALF’). The same opinion was further circulated in the The Telegraph, viewpoints written by people even more unqualified than me for interpreting climate data.

Continue reading “Scrutinizing Climate Data Through the Tube of a Toilet Roll” →

This week, more than most since I woke to ‘Climategate’ in 2009, I’ve been forced to read made-up stuff in the UK press about climate change data, nonsense about climate change scientists, and twaddle about the people and process of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Or, I’ve read entire articles hung around the denialist opinion of one unpublished cherry-picked ‘analyst’, from the University of somewhere I’ve not heard of, usually in North America.

Continue reading “Climate Science From Qualified Commentators” →