Sentences with phrase «science journalists»

But the scientists understood that it was serious, and science journalists passed along their predictions of sea - level rise and other problems.

Covering Antarctica is tricky for science journalists: The quantities of ice, and therefore, the potential impact on the global climate system is beyond human comprehension — but often, so are the timescales.

I'm not sure what's going on here, but I imagine a few science journalists are trying to get in touch with him to clarify exactly what he said.

The media likes controversy, has been shedding its competent science journalists, and by - and - large doesn't get the dire nature of global warming, so I see no prospect of this changing any time soon.

The «hiding» excuse has been picked up by mainstream science journalists without their doing any due diligence on the veracity of the IPCC statement or at least reviewing the actual empirical evidence.

But in the BBC's coverage of the report's release in Stockholm, which was attended by several BBC science journalists, the voice of climate - change sceptics, who do not accept the IPCC's core findings, got considerable airtime.

The ClimateGate emails revealed the seamy - side of scientists pressuring journal editors and science journalists in attempts to suppress certain scientific results and opinions.

Such studies use SRES input — so science journalists will always have to add «oh yeah, but in reality things will be worse» as a final note to their articles.

Until you do so, I would think it wiser to listen to them that to a couple of «science journalists» with a rather obvious ideological agenda.

These are all hitherto unexplained observations that science journalists like to write articles about, including words like «baffled», «stumped» and «mystery».

This fact alone should demonstrate clearly to anyone with an IQ above that of a toaster that these «science journalists» are completely clueless, both about science and about journalism.

Lots of people, including activists, U.N. bureaucracies, renewable energy companies, electric car makers, government agencies and labs, scientists at these agencies and at universities, lots of non-profit organizations, science journalists, etc..

I fear the non-science journalists don't look as much in the science details, don't have the time or leadership that we have at AP, and thus didn't learn the lessons that science journalists have.

Science journalists and others who well reported the issue this past year will do a better job, those who didn't or just skimmed the surface or parroted ideologues won't.

The most popular climate change story across social media in the past six months was not some diligently researched piece from one of the many very good science journalists writing for major news organisations around the world.

Gradually scientists, aided by science journalists, informed the minority of educated people that modern civilization might cause global warming, sometime far in the future.

I would add that scientists (and science journalists) would do well to review the talk given by Thomas Lessl of the University of Georgia at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, on the limited role of science, even if communicated clearly, in shaping policy and human choices.

My guess is that until a new generation is engaged in the importance and possibilities of science from the bottom up, science journalists will remain a threatened, if not endangered, species.

Material like this is great for that group, as well as for science journalists who know enough to read a few equations.

Of course, we have lives to live and have come to trust those voices that sound compelling and sensible to us on TV and in the popular media, but do keep in mind that there's a difference between rhetoric and reality and the more rhetorical and appealing it seems to one's emotions, especially as delivered by those for whom science is a kind of performance as we have today with science journalists (they are afterall selling the controversy more than the hard facts), the more likely it requires the reader or viewer or listener to examine it more closely for the precision of its language, logic and scientific interpretation.

It seems that climate scientists are doing a better job of communicating with the media, or the science journalists are doing a better job of asking questions.

As Nadia El - Wady, the president of the World Federation of Science Journalists, put it last year, there are «only a few pockets of excellence in an ocean of mediocrity.»

It would be nice if there were a lot more science journalists at major newspapers who covered the material, but due to cutbacks and lack of time they can't cover everything, as noted.

While this would be reasonable for most beat journalists, it isn't true for even science journalists who don't cover this area, and certainly isn't true for most news desk staffers.

Paul Voosen, who's one of my favorite science journalists these days, has written a fine piece examining the scientific and societal debate over the Anthropocene, the proposed term for this era in which human decisions (or indecision) will leave a durable mark in planetary systems and even in the planet's stratified rock.

Why do science journalists need to pursue such approaches?

The cautionary tale of the fight over the cause of stomach ulcers, listed by quite a few contributors there, is the kind of saga that gives science journalists (appropriately) sleepless nights.

I've discussed related topics over the years among scientists and science journalists.

However, not all journalists that cover science are actually science journalists, and for a big story it's often the news desk that gets the job.

I have actually had science writers who are nonscientists say that they felt their status as laymen made it easier to relate to their audience, while I have had science journalists who are scientists claim they don't see how one could be effective without experience as a scientist.

[Response: Paul, I didn't mean to imply that conscientious science journalists didn't exist, they certainly do.

Like I talked with science journalists and I talked with biohackers and then you've got like the pedigree, so it's kind of cool.

While researching their new book, The Informed Parent: A Science - Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years, science journalists Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham, Ph.D., sifted through thousands of studies on parenting practices — from birthing and breastfeeding to sleep training and screen time — to find out what moms and dads really need to know.

This program offers science journalists a stay of up to 6 months at the institute which has a focus on data - driven research in areas ranging from astrophysics to cell biology.

EARTH only uses professional science journalists and scientists to author our content?

To explore this in - depth, this Symposium brought together an international body of science journalists with experts who can help identify the promises, problems and opportunities of data mining.

Our speakers will be Ed Yong, one of the best science journalists working today and author of the blog «Not Exactly Rocket Science»; Liz Neeley, executive director of The Story Collider and architect of science outreach strategies based on public engagement data; and Andrea Downing, patient and data sharing advocate and creator of an online community around BRCA findings.

The World Federation of Science Journalists and The Kavli Foundation teamed up again for the 2nd Kavli Symposium on Science Journalism.

One of the issues that emerged from the 1st Kavli Symposium on science journalism is the need for science journalists worldwide to have powerful and cutting edge data mining and mapping tools.

Science Bloggers and Scientists, Journalists and More, invited panel talk at Kavli / MIT Symposium on Science Communication, «Are We All Science Journalists Now?»

It's no wonder he won this year's Evert Clark / Seth Payne Award, an annual prize for young science journalists.

It's no wonder she won this year's Evert Clark / Seth Payne Award, an annual prize for young science journalists.

Professor of science broadcast journalism at Carleton University; former President of the Canadian Science Writers» Association; former Board Member, World Federation of Science Journalists.

The Swedish Embassy in London hosted a seminar for invited science journalists on May 13th 2011.

In this video we ask winners to give their advice for young science journalists.

In 2010, she received the Evert Clark / Seth Payne Award for young science journalists.

Taking place in Washington DC, this symposium focused primarily on the international community of science journalists worldwide.

Equipping science journalists to better access and accurately appraise relevant evidence from a range of regional sources.

The World Federation of Science Journalists and The Kavli Foundation teamed up again for the 3rd Kavli Symposium on Science Journalism.

But the core values of the AAAS Kavli awards program will remain the same: honoring distinguished science reporting by professional journalists for a general audience; and selection of the winners by independent panels of science journalists.