Author: John Bruno
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Why bother? (doing outreach)
by @LizNeeley [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/12656782[/vimeo]
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Sick skimboarding video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5A04G_4Aks&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
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Drowning out the truth about the Great Barrier Reef
Below is a repost of an article by Dr Ove Hoegh-Guldberg in The Conversation. One of the most straightforward climate change storylines is the link between global warming and coral reefs such as the Great Barrier Reef. When our reef waters get too warm, corals sicken (bleach), often causing disease and death. And when the corals go,…
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Portfolio effects in Salmon
by @LizNeeley [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/12239628[/vimeo]
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Shark finning infographic
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The smoking gun: plot by fossil fuel giant to further corrupt the Aussie media exposed
An explosive new piece of investigative journalism Monckton, Rinehart and a plan to capture the Australian media by Aussie super journo Graham Readfearn is turning the climate change world upside down. Emmett just blogged about the corruption of our media and I had an interesting email conversation yesterday with him, Randy Olson and Steve Miller about enviro communication. Steve echoed…
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Why, you ask, is big oil misinforming us about climate change?
Bill McKibben has a new piece (excerpted below) about all this crazy weather, climate change, the carbon bubble, and why big oil is out to wreck our planet: If we spew 565 gigatons more carbon into the atmosphere, we’ll quite possibly go right past that reddest of red lines. But the oil companies, private and state-owned, have…
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Lionfish on the menu
Here are three stories that really deserve to be shared together, all about the catching and eating of our friend, the lionfish. First, is this article about a lionfish derby Dr Craig Layman, AKA The Abaco Scientist, organized with Friends of the Environment on Abaco, Bahamas on May 27, 2011. In one day, 15 boats…
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Na Bula’: Fiji’s Crown of Thorns
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29150652[/vimeo]
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Could the media possibly be playing a role in the public’s confusion about science?
In case you hadn’t noticed, there is a new science communications meme out there: it is all our fault. Us scientists are too darned unlikable, dorky, literal, cerebral and generally unconnected to our “lower organs”. If we weren’t all these things and simply listened to the self-proclaimed science media gurus, all would be well. The…