Climate Change Journalism: From Agony to Agonistic Debate

The Limits of Knowledge and the Climate Change Debate

Cato Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Fall 2016). Copyright © Cato Institute. All rights reserved. Brian J. L. Berry is the Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor, and former Dean of the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences, at the University of Texas at Dallas. Jayshree Bihari is an independent scholar with a PhD in public affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas. Euel Elliott is Pr...

The Environmental Security Debate and Its Significance for Climate Change

Immune thrombocytopenic purpura--from agony to agonist.

In the summer of 1950, two hematology fellows working at the Barnes Hospital in St. Louis — William J. Harrington and James W. Hollings­ worth — hatched a plan to test their idea that the cause of the idiopathic thrombocytopenic pur­ pura (ITP) in a woman under their care was a factor in the blood that destroyed platelets. They decided that of the two fellows, the one whose blood type matched t...

The Construction of Knowledge and the Climate Change Debate: A Perspective from the Developing South

Central to the climate change debate is the way that we construct knowledge. The very concept 'climate change' implies that something in this case the climate is changing. Inherent in this notion is a hidden value judgement. Changing climates seem to be somehow threatening to human beings so consequently we need to manage this perceived risk in some way or other. Concepts are the basic building...

Climate change. Accelerating extinction risk from climate change.

Current predictions of extinction risks from climate change vary widely depending on the specific assumptions and geographic and taxonomic focus of each study. I synthesized published studies in order to estimate a global mean extinction rate and determine which factors contribute the greatest uncertainty to climate change-induced extinction risks. Results suggest that extinction risks will acc...