Climate Change

ENVS Director's research featured in Grist

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 20:38:44 +0000

ENVS Director's research featured in Grist Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/22/2021 - 14:38

Professor Max Boykoff's research was featured in the article "Good news: The media is getting the facts right on climate change", by Kate Yoder in Grist. The recent study "pointed to a handful of reasons for increasing accuracy, including more scientific certainty" in media communications about climate change.

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Beth Osnes Uses Theater to Communicate Climate Change One Child at a Time

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 22:13:20 +0000

Beth Osnes Uses Theater to Communicate Climate Change One Child at a Time Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/24/2018 - 16:13

ENVS affiliate, Associate Professor Beth Osnes, discuss with CU Boulder Today her creation and direction of Shine, a musical performance about how energy, climate and humans are interrelated. Set against a hand-drawn backdrop representing 300 million years of earth’s geologic history, youngsters dressed in colorful costumes symbolizing plants and insects sing and gambol around the stage. Osnes works is co-founder and co-director of Inside the Greenhouse, an endowed initiative at CU Boulder to celebrate creative climate communication through film, theater, dance and music.

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Global climate-change pacts moving toward market-based approaches, ENVS David Ciplet finds.

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 17:49:15 +0000

Global climate-change pacts moving toward market-based approaches, ENVS David Ciplet finds. Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 12/02/2017 - 10:49

While President Trump’s decision to leave the Paris climate agreement probably dismayed climate scientists, it did at least provide some interesting data for scholars who study trends in the negotiations. One of those researchers is David Ciplet, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder who recently returned from the climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, and who said other nations are mulling ways to fill the climate-leadership vacuum left by the United States.

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Ashby Leavell: A Fresh Approach to Talking Climate Change

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:37:41 +0000

Ashby Leavell: A Fresh Approach to Talking Climate Change Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/20/2017 - 10:37

ENVS PhD candidate, Ashby Leavell explores how to talk about climate change with conservative relatives in this op ed.

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Beyond Boulder: What pikas and alpine plants tell us about climate change

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 22:37:53 +0000

Beyond Boulder: What pikas and alpine plants tell us about climate change Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/27/2017 - 16:37

Kendziorski is working with Professor Dan Doak, a conservation biologist who studies demography and climate change in relations to alpine plants, and with Doak’s postdoctoral scientist Megan Peterson. One plant of interest to Doak and which Kendziorski is focusing on this summer is Silene acaulis or moss campion, also called cushion pink. Wasser, a senior in ecology and evolutionary biology, is studying pikas with Research Associate Chris Ray. This is his third summer working with Ray at the research station.

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Catching Air: Scientists Trek High into the Rockies to Measure Earth’s Rising Greenhouse Gases

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:28:23 +0000

Catching Air: Scientists Trek High into the Rockies to Measure Earth’s Rising Greenhouse Gases Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/05/2017 - 11:28

Featured on the front page of the Denver Post, Climate researchers say the weekly climb to gather air samples has become more of a mission than a job.

Jennifer Morse, a climate technician at the Mountain Research Station (MSR) in Roosevelt National Forest, gets ready to return to her base after checking recent precipitation levels and taking air samples at the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research site on March 28, 2017 near Nederland.

James White, Director-Institute of INSTAAR and ENVS affiliate speaks on the importance of research into climate change.

"As federal government-funded scientist Jen Morse skis through blowing snow at 11,500 feet to measure heat-trapping greenhouse gas air pollution, she wrestles with the question that’s been bothering her all week: How humans can know that potentially ruinous climate change is happening yet balk at trying to stop it....." Read the Full article here:

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No Laughing Matter? When It Comes To Climate Change, CU Boulder Show Begs To Differ

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:27:12 +0000

No Laughing Matter? When It Comes To Climate Change, CU Boulder Show Begs To Differ Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/23/2017 - 14:27

That's the premise for a show, "Stand Up for Climate: An Experiment with Creative Climate Comedy,"

Co-producer Beth Osnes, an associate professor and director of graduate studies in CU's theater department, and Max Boykoff, an assistant professor in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, spoke with Colorado Matters host Nathan Heffel. Watch the interview here with Colorado Public Radio.

From left to right, Beth Osnes, Max Boykoff and Rebecca Safran founded the Inside the Greenhouse Project at CU Boulder. CU Boulder photo by Casey Cass.

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The Climate Fight isn’t Just About Facts

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:50:44 +0000

The Climate Fight isn’t Just About Facts Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 02/14/2017 - 13:50

We should be talking about values and the kind of world we want.

Alexander P. Lee

Five years ago, I hiked to the toe of the East Fork Glacier in Alaska’s Denali National Park. I was on my way to climb a small peak in the Alaska Range and had tracked down a photo taken in the 1920s by one of the park’s first geologists. Lining up the mountain skyline with the photo, I scrambled around until I found the exact spot where Stephen Capps stood to take the picture some 90 years earlier. The glacier had retreated nearly a mile since then.

I am an environmental philosopher, and have also worked as a glacial researcher, backcountry guide and naturalist. Seeing the dramatic disappearance of the East Fork Glacier was one of many intimate experiences I have had with a warming world.

So how do I reconcile the overwhelming evidence that the world’s atmosphere is being disrupted with the perception of the 30 percent of Americans who do not believe in climate change?

Read Alex's full story here.

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