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'Nother Spate of Reviews: Yale Climate Forum, Joe Romm, Josh Rosenau, New Scientist

Discover engaging Unscientific America reviews highlighting the need for better scientific outreach and communication in the science community.

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We've had many more reviews of the book, including three very positive ones from Bud Ward of the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, Joe Romm of Climate Progress, and Josh Rosenau of ScienceBlogs. (Jim Giles of New Scientist also reviewed here, but it's one of those reviews that you just don't know how to characterize--mildly negative?) Anyways, let's listen to Ward first. The whole review is positive--he calls the book "a timely bromide for the science blues"--but this part was notable:

But it is in their “Is Our Scientists Learning?” (sic.) chapter and in their conclusion chapter that Mooney and Kirshenbaum offer what may be the book’s most valuable contributions. Here, they outline the woes, but also the promises and potentials, of the science community, and they issue a veritable call to action not just for more scientists, and certainly not for more scientists working “in isolation” ...

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