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"Climate change in fact and fiction:
Images of science, scientists, and society"


PART I: GEORGE, THE ONLINE CATALOG OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
MAIN CAMPUS LIBRARIES


subject search>>> mass media and the environment

Allan, Stuart, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter, eds. Environmental Risks and the Media. New York : Routledge, 2000. (Call No. P96.E57 E57 2000)

Smith, Joe. Ed. The Daily Globe: Environmental Change, The Public And The Media. London : Earthscan, 2000. (Call No. P96.E57 D35 2000)

Lasn, Kalle. Culture Jam: The Uncooling Of America. New York: Eagle Brook, 1999. (Call No. P94.6 .L37 1999)

subject search>>>Climatic changes

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. “Climate change : the state of the science : hearing before the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, March 14, 2001” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001.

Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress. Preparing for an uncertain climate. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1993. (Call No. (MF) Y 3.T 22/2:2 C 61/2/ v.1&2)

keyword search>>>global warming

Lynas, Mark. High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis. New York: Picador, 2003.

subject search>>>Environmental Protection—Press Coverage

Frome, Michael. Green Ink: an Introduction to Environmental Journalism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998.


PART II: INDEXES AND DATABASES


1) Academic Search Premier

subject search>>>climatic changes and public opinion

Leiserowitz, Anthony A. “Before and After The Day After Tomorrow.” Environment. 46:9 (Nov 2004), 22-37.

Rosanne W. Fortner, Jae-Young Lee, Jeffrey R. Corney, Samantha Romanello, Joseph Bonnell, Brian Luthy, Claudia Figuerido and Nyathi Ntsiiko. “Public Understanding of Climate Change: Certainty and Willingness to Act. “ Environmental Education Research. 6:2 (May 2000), 127-141.

subject search>>>climate change and mass media

Henderson-Sellers, A. “Climate Whispers: Media Communication About Climate Change.” Climatic Change, 40:3/4 (Dec 1998), 421-456.

keyword search>>>science and blog

“Welcome Climate Bloggers.” Nature. 432:7020 (Dec 23, 2004), 933.


2) PAIS International

subject search>>>global warming

Hultman, Nathan E. “Emerging carbon markets and the future of climate policy.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. 5:1(Winter/Spring 2004), 123-129.

“Climate change: the science and politics of global warming; pro & con: should the Senate pass S. 139, the Climate Stewardship Act?” Congressional Digest 83:1 (January 2004), 1-32.

3) ComAbstracts

search>>>climate change

Brossard, Dominique, James Shanahan, and Katherine McComas. “Are issue-cycles culturally constructed?: A comparison of French and American coverage of global climate change.” Mass Communication and Society. 7:3 (2004), 359-377.

McComas, Katherine, and Shanahan, James. "Telling stories about global climate change: Measuring the impact of narratives on issue cycles." Communication Research. 26:1 (February 1999), 30-57.

Wilson, Kris M. “Mass media as sources of global warming knowledge.” Mass Communication Review. 22:1/2 (1995) 75-89.


4) Web of Science

search >>>global warming

Krosnick J,A., A. L. Holbrook and P. S. Visser. ” The impact of the fall 1997 debate about global warming on American public opinion.” Public Understanding Of Science 9:3 (Jul 2000), 239-260.

Dunlap R.E. “Lay perceptions of global risk - Public views of global warming in cross-national context.” International Sociology 13:4 (Dec. 1998), 473-498.

Berk R. A, D. Schulman. “Public Perceptions Of Global Warming.” Climatic Change. 29:1 (Jan 1995), 1-33.


5) Social Science Abstracts

search>>>(“climatic change” or “global warming”) and “public opinion"

Brechin, Steven R. “Comparative Public Opinion and Knowledge on Global Climatic Change and the Kyoto Protocol: The U.S. versus the World?” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 23:10 (2003), 106-134.

Podeschi, Christopher W. “The Nature of Future Myths: Environmental Discourse in Science Fiction Film, 1950-1999.” Sociological Spectrum, 22:3, (July-Sept 2002), 251-297.


PART III: INTERNET RESOURCES


RealClimate
http://www.realclimate.org/


“ RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science.“


Prometheus
The Science Policy Weblog
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/

“Prometheus is a project of the University of Colorado Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. Prometheus is designed to create an informal outlet for news, information, and opinion on science policy. We hope that Prometheus can foster broad participation and discussion.


The Post Normal Times: Perspectives on Environmental Science and Policy Decisions
http://www.postnormaltimes.net/blog/html about.html

“The Post-Normal Times is dedicated to improving the quality of public participation in science-based policy decisions related to the conundrums presented by problems of environmentally sustainable development, by providing multiple and constructive perspectives on complex and controversial science and policy issues. A central focus will be on justifications provided for controversial high-stakes decisions that pertain to complex problems such as climate change, in which the disadvantages of making trade-offs fall disproportionately on those excluded from the decision-making process. But we will also cover post-normal aspects of culture and politics that are the context of science. We particularly seek out the kinds of information often missed in formal reports and normal news sources, for failure to fit into standard categories and established story lines. “


PART IV: REFERENCES


Boykoff, M. T. and Boykoff, J. M. (2004) Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, 14, 125-136.

Costanza, R., Funtowicz, S. O. and Ravetz, J. R. (1992) Assessing and Communicating Data Quality in Policy-Relevant Research. Environmental Management, 16, 121-131.

Crichton, M. (2004) State of Fear. New York: Harper Collins, 603 pp.

"The Day After Tomorrow." (2004) Roland Emmerich. Fox Pictures

Funtowicz, S. O. and Ravetz, J. R. (1993) Science for the Post-Normal Age. Futures, 25, 739-755.

Oreskes, N. (2004) Science and public policy: what's proof got to do with it? Environmental Science & Policy, 7, 369-383

Pielke, R. A. (2004) What is climate change? Issues in Science and Technology, 20, 31-34.

Pielke, R. A. (2004-2005). Postings on "Prometheus: The Science Policy Weblog." University of Colorado Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. <http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/>

Von Storch, H., Stehr, N. and Unger, S. (2004). Sustainability and the issue of climate change. Working paper, November. <http://w3g.gkss.de/staff/storch/Media/climate.culture.041130.pdf>


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