Prometheus

In today's Washington Post Joel Achenbach has a smart and nuanced piece on weather extremes and climate change. The attribution of weather events and trends...

The deepest pathologies in the climate policy debate can been seen in this comment in today's NYT column by Paul Krugman: The only way we’re...

A job opening in science policy, please click through for details....

I wanted to note for our readers the essay titled "History of Science and American Science Policy" from the current (June 2008) issue of Isis,...

My first reaction upon seeing this story was that someone was having some fun. But it doesn't seem like benthic bacteria . . ....

My first reaction upon seeing this story was that someone was having some fun. But it doesn't seem like benthic bacteria . . ....

Some hard-to-believe numbers reported in the Financial Times yesterday on the investments by major energy companies in R&D (emphasis added): The west's biggest oil companies...

The U.S. Climate Change Science Program has put online for public comment a draft version of its synthesis report ( here in PDF), and I...

Today's New York Times has a very interesting article by Keith Bradsher on fuel subsidies in developing countries, which sheds some light on the politics...

The management of the Free Enterprise Action Fund have thrown their hat into the ring seeking to limit what can be said or claimed in...

For some, this will be old news, as data like this has been available for a few years. For others, read and take heed as...

A guest post by Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch The July 2008 newsletter of the American Physical Society (APS) opened a debate concerning the...

Bruce L. R. Smith, science policy scholar and visiting professor at George Mason University, has a review of The Honest Broker out in the current...

If you are paying attention to the latest dust up over climate change then you know that a judgment has been rendered (PDF) by the...

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of Queensland University and colleagues have an important article on “Assisted Colonization and Rapid Climate Change” in this week’s issue of Science...

In the current issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society John Knox concludes (PDF): . . . if the projections are accurate: the...

This post highlights two discussion papers that have successfully replicated our normalized hurricane damage analyses using different approaches and datasets. Interestingly, both papers claim a...

Among the many different old, ill-formed, and just plain inaccurate tenets found in science and technology policy rhetoric is the notion that accountability for federal...

The Indian government has put out a climate change action plan (PDF) that places economic development and adaptation ahead of mitigation (sound familiar?). The report...

I have long considered Andy Revkin of the New York Times to be the dean of reporters covering climate science. But there is one issue...