Richard Zurawski

It has been a tough year all around, especially for those of us concerned with AGW, anthropogenic global warming. The lack of action to mitigate AGW in Copenhagen, last December, when the Deniers seized media attention through the bogus and now thoroughly debunked email scam, and now the total failure of the Cancun conference a [...]

What follows is an article that appeared in Monday’s National Post, along with my underlined comments. Basically the entire story purports to be a scientific analysis of a slapshot, but what it does is mangle the science, which is only at a high school level, beyond belief. The reporter and/or the good Dr. need a [...]

Nothing illustrates better the incredibly important role of science in our world than the amazing rescue that took place in Chile these past few days. It highlights how everything we do in this world has to do with science. Let’s begin with the reason we mine in Chile in the first place. It has the [...]

I have been away from my routine blogging for a while because, in addition to my regular Maritime forecasting for Rogers, I have been teaching at Mount Saint Vincent University, taken on forecast duties for our Ottawa sister station, 1310News and have been putting the finishing touches on my next book “Media Mediocrity – Waging [...]

Mark this one down. Globally, the past 12 months have been the warmest ever recorded. In spite of the fact the sun was at its lowest ebb, in spite of the fact that a La Nina cooling is underway in the Pacific and in spite of the fact the anti global warming crowd would have [...]

Sometimes I just shake my head at the utter disregard that some people have for the obvious science that exists all around us, as though what applies universally to all of us is somehow suspended and abrogated because of certain individual needs and wants. Take the summer heat and cars. Most of us have experienced [...]

I have been acutely interested in the interaction between the media and science for quite some time and have based my academic pursuits on analyzing the relationship between the two. My doctoral studies in education put that mostly fractious association under the figurative microscope, and in coming months I will also be lecturing at Mount [...]

Nothing like a vacation to rejuvenate the mind and soul. This past week I spent most of my time sailing the glorious waters off Nova Scotia, St Margaret’s Bay and Mahone Bay specifically. It did my heart good. Most of the time we were able to use the wind and sail, only requiring the power [...]

Well, all things must pass, and so it is, here at Rogers Radio in the Maritimes, that we say good-bye to an era. AK has left the building for the FAN in the ‘Big Smoke.’ For the past five years AK has been my friend, co-worker and science files originator. Has it really been five [...]

This past week, my cohort on the Wednesday Science took me to task for not being more vociferous in my outrage regarding the massive BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill that is all the rage in the news these days. It has made me think a bit about the context of all of this and [...]