Below is an excerpt from a CCNF debate between Bob Inglis — former Republican Representative (SC, ’93-’99, ’05-’11) and current Executive Director of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative (“E&EI”), and Sam Thernstrom —Executive Director of the Energy Innovation Reform Project, Senior Fellow at the Center for the National Interest, and former Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The […]
Michael Quirke is the executive director of CCNF and is serving as the Forum's journalist. He first began work on an early beta version of this website in 2010, shortly after his military service and before starting law school at the University of Houston Law Center. He helped form the CCNF nonprofit under the leadership of its founding board members during his second year of law school and has been leading the growth of the organization as its executive director and covering the discussion and debate as the Forum's journalist ever since. In late 2014, he joined the organization's board. His vision for this journalism project is simple: Establish an open Socratic forum for scientists, give each scientist complete independence on the platform, encourage Socratic inquiry by all and ask questions, and impartially report what transpires; and then, once a good foundation in the science is set, host and cover a bipartisan policy debate by a diverse group of experts on what can or should be done about climate change as a nation based on the science established by the scientists. He hopes you join him on this intellectual journey.
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CCNF Interview with Divestment Movement Leaders
Below are a set of excerpts from a CCNF virtual session with Ben Franta, PhD Candidate in Applied Physics at the...
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CCNF negotiating with potential partners, sponsors to educate millions on climate before COP21
Houston, Texas (CCNF) July 11, 2015 — Already a trusted source for citizens and educators wanting to hear what real...
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What Happens If We Don’t Mitigate?
[This piece was slightly edited for brevity and readability; see full video of the session on YouTube.] Quirke: Hello...
Interview with Michael Quirke on “Climate Change National Forum 3.0″ and CCNF’s future plans
[Note: This is an interview of Michael Quirke by CCNF guest journalist Heather L. Cohen, originally taped at Earth Day Texas. The transcript below was minimally edited for brevity and readability:] So tell me more about CCNF? _ CCNF is a new journalistic initiative that I co-founded with a group of […]
Read more ›AGU Fall Meeting Presents Opportunity for Critical Mass, Future National Success
CCNF’s leadership and staff recently spent an entire week attending the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Held at the Moscone Center on the week before Christmas and lasting five days, the annual conference is the largest gathering of earth, climate, & space scientists in the world, and […]
Read more ›Dr. Nielsen-Gammon’s presentation on CCNF well received at AGU Fall Meeting
It was a great honor for Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon to present on CCNF in the oral session on ‘Climate Literacy: Culture of Science and Broader Impacts Done Well I‘ at the recent American Geophysical Union’s annual Fall Meeting. The session was chaired by scientist-educators from the NASA Langley Research Center, Paleontological Research Institution, and a […]
Read more ›I’m not a scientist—but your poster blows my mind: Highlights & Bloopers at AGU14
#1 Highlight: Watching science happen in a poster hall Checking out a poster hall during a period of peak activity was by far the absolute coolest experience during my time at the AGU Fall Meeting (AGU14). One walks into a giant hall filled with rows upon rows of posters, and each poster features […]
Read more ›Slinging CCNF at the AGU Fall Meeting… With a light dose of Texas swagger
David and I were posted at our booth and ready to rock when Monday evening’s “Ice Breaker” kicked off and the exhibit hall opened up for the first time at the recent American Geophysical Union’s annual Fall Meeting for 2014 (AGU14). Accomplishing this while keeping within CCNF’s modest budget of the week meant spending the better part […]
Read more ›We’ve built it, but will they fund? Need sponsors for scientifically grounded ‘Grand Debate’ on national climate policy
The first phase for this journalism experiment was fairly simple: Customize the website I had created for the issue of climate change in accordance with the board’s guidance; issue a national call to the Fellows and scientist-members of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, and American Institute of Physics to participate in an open Socratic […]
Read more ›CCNF Member Columnists:
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John Anderson
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Jim Bouldin
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John Nielsen-Gammon
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Barry Lefer
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Kerry Emanuel
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Andrew Dessler
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Mauri Pelto
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Lulu Liu
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Andreas Schmittner
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Scott Denning
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Jeremy Shakun
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Michael Tobis
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Sean Bryan
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Stephanie Thomas
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Sean Robinson
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Daniel Cohan
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Judith Curry
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Will Howard
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Eric Galbraith
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Muge Komurcu
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Ron Sass
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David Hone
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Eric Steig
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Tracy Hester
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Shi-Ling Hsu
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Bob Inglis
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Jed Anderson
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Josiah Neeley
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Andy OBrien
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Peter Sinclair
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Bruno Marino
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Benjamin Franta
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Suzanne Waldman