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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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.

"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  is happening yet balk at trying to stop it....."

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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 with Colorado Public Radio.

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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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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

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