The Mooney-Nisbet combo just returned from speaking in New York....and there have already been reactions to the latest talk from well-known science writer John Horgan (who was in the audience) as well as a write-up from Curtis Brainard of Columbia Journalism Review. In his article Brainard quotes celebrated NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt, of RealClimate.org, who also was kind enough to attend the talk and hang out afterwards.
I'd like to convince John Horgan, if I can, that framing is not tantamount to spin. I'm going to try to do that. Meanwhile, I appreciate Gavin's view as expressed in the CJR article that scientists shouldn't lobby for highly specific policies...but that's actually quite consistent with our framing approach and, indeed, with our reply to Sherwood Boehlert.
Filling out the crowd of over 100 at the New York Academy of Sciences were some buddies from Seed and my brother Davy and his wife Angela. Unfortunately, my camera was out of batteries and no pictures were taken.
Meanwhile some other "Speaking Science 2.0" news: Our YouTube video has now had over 5,000 views. And last but not least: Josh Rosenau, who attended our very first talk in Kansas City last month, has posted a comprehensive, very thoughtful write-up. Thanks, Josh. I'll close with a picture of the three science bloggers in KC:
Are you going to submit a YouTube question for the next debates that CNN is doing with co-sponsor YouTube?
During your speaking science session at NYAS you mentioned the fickle news media. Case in point from the NYTimes 6/8:
The news about Ms. Hilton dominated news coverage today. At CNN, the news was breaking during the cable news network's daily CNN International news hour. The Paris story led the show after one commercial break, coming even before updates on the G8 Summit and Italy's Rendition Trial.