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'''Joanne Nova''' is an Australian writer, blogger, and speaker. Born '''Joanne Codling''', she adopted the stage name "Nova" in 1998 when she was preparing to host a children's television program.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050717140911/http://info.anu.edu.au/CPAS/Publications/_Scinapse/Scinapse_7_4.asp ANU – CPAS – Publications – SCINAPSE Vol 7 No. 4], The Occasional Newsletter of the ANU/Questacon Graduate Program in Scientific Communication.</ref><ref>[http://joannenova.com.au/about About JoNova]</ref> She is prominent for promoting pseudoscientific views on climate change.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/01/rick-santorum/santorum-cites-flawed-climate-change-figure-and-mi/|title=Santorum cites flawed climate change figure, and misquotes it|website=@politifact|language=en|access-date=2019-12-03}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://insideclimatenews.org/news/12032015/leaked-email-reveals-whos-who-list-climate-denialists-merchants-of-doubt-oreskes-fred-singer-marc-morano-steve-milloy|title=Leaked Email Reveals Who's Who List of Climate Denialists|date=2015-03-12|website=InsideClimate News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-03}}</ref>
'''Joanne Nova''' is an Australian writer, blogger, and speaker. Born '''Joanne Codling''', she adopted the stage name "Nova" in 1998 when she was preparing to host a children's television program.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050717140911/http://info.anu.edu.au/CPAS/Publications/_Scinapse/Scinapse_7_4.asp ANU – CPAS – Publications – SCINAPSE Vol 7 No. 4], The Occasional Newsletter of the ANU/Questacon Graduate Program in Scientific Communication.</ref><ref>[http://joannenova.com.au/about About JoNova]</ref>


== Education ==
== Education ==
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== Career ==
== Career ==
For three years Nova was an Associate Lecturer of Science Communication at Australian National University.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}} For four years, Nova jointly co-ordinated {{Citation needed|date=May 2019}} the [[Shell Questacon Science Circus]], which operates all over Australia.
For three years Nova was an Associate Lecturer of Science Communication at Australian National University.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}


For four years, Nova jointly co-ordinated {{Citation needed|date=May 2019}} the [[Questacon|Shell Questacon Science Circus]], which operates all over Australia.
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From November 1999 to February 2000, Nova was the host of the first series of Australian children's science television show ''[[Y?]]''{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}} She was a regular guest on [[ABC Radio and Regional Content|ABC Radio]]. She is a director of GoldNerds, a gold investment advice business.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://goldnerds.com.au|title=GoldNerds}}</ref>


From November 1999 to February 2000, Nova was the host of the first series of Australian children's science television show ''[[Y?]]''{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}
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Nova has published a book called ''Serious Science Party Tricks'', which is aimed at children. Nova has written for ''The Spectator'', and has had columns published on the Op-Ed pages of ''[[The Australian]]''.


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science {{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}. She is a director of GoldNerds, a gold investment advice business.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://goldnerds.com.au|title=GoldNerds}}</ref>
=== Climate change denial advocacy ===
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She is the author of ''The Skeptics Handbook'', which rejects the scientific consensus on climate change and promotes various falsehoods about climate change.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-inquisition-of-climate-science/9780231157193|title=The Inquisition of Climate Science|last=Powell|first=James Lawrence|date=2011|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231527842|location=|pages=99–101}}</ref> The book argues that temperatures have not increased, and that greenhouse gases do not contribute to climate change.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":1" /> The book promotes the myth that there is already so much CO2 in the atmosphere that adding more will not have an impact on temperatures.<ref name=":02" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/great-energy-challenge/2010/climate-change-myth/|title=Climate Change Myths: Sorting Fact from Fiction|date=2010-12-21|website=National Geographic|language=en|access-date=2019-12-03}}</ref> The book was widely distributed in the United States by [[The Heartland Institute]], known primarily for promoting pseudoscientific views on climate change and the harms of smoking .<ref name=":02" /><ref>Sara Reardon, [http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/688.summary?sid=88c83cb6-184a-4fa7-a1fe-27aee206f60f Climate Change Sparks Battles in Classroom], [[Science (journal)|''Science'']] (subscription required), 5 August 2011: 333 (6043), 688–689</ref> In 2009, Nova issued a sequel, ''Global Bullies Want Your Money'', and in the same year she wrote a paper for the [[Science and Public Policy Institute|SPPI]] titled ''Climate Money''.<ref name="SPPI2">{{Cite web|url=http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/climate_money.pdf|title=Climate Money|last=Nova|first=Joanne|work=SPPI Originals|publisher=Science and Public Policy Institute|access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref> That year, she gave a presentation at the Heartland Institute, titled "The Great Global Fawning: How Science Journalists Pay Homage to Non-Science and Un-Reason."<ref name=":02" />


== Views on global warming ==
She has falsely claimed that less than half of climate scientists agree with the IPCC's conclusion that CO2 is the dominant contributor to climate change.<ref name=":0" /> PolitiFact described this as a "flat-out wrong" interpretation of data from a survey, and the lead author of the survey in question said that the survey shows "a strong majority of scientists agree that greenhouse gases originating from human activity are the dominant cause of recent warming."<ref name=":0" /> Nova has argued that climate science is distorted by money, saying "thousands of scientists have been funded to find a connection between human carbon emissions and the climate. Hardly any have been funded to find the opposite."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/accusations-that-climate-science-is-money-driven-reveal-ignorance-of-how-science-is-done/|title=Accusations that climate science is money-driven reveal ignorance of how science is done|last=Timmer|first=John|date=2012-05-24|website=Ars Technica|language=en-us|access-date=2019-12-03}}</ref>
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Nova had a five-part debate on AGW with Dr. Andrew Glikson, first on [[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant Online]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2010/04/glikson-or-nova|title=Glikson or Nova?|date=30 April 2010|work=Quadrant Magazine|publisher=Quadrant Magazine|page=1}}</ref> and continuing on her own blog.<ref name="The Great ">{{ web|url=http://joannenova.com.au/2010/05/debate-with-glikson-part-iii-he-accidentally-vindicates-the-skeptics/|title=Great Debate Part III & IV – Glikson accidentally vindicates the skeptics!|last=Nova|first=Joanne|date=11 May 2010|publisher=Joanne Nova|page=1|access-date=18 August 2010}}</ref> In 2012, she appeared in the [[ABC Television]] documentary ''I Can Change Your Mind About&nbsp;... Climate'' with her partner David Evans, in discussion with [[Nick Minchin]] and [[Anna Rose]]
<blockquote style="font-size:100%">...&nbsp;carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and that adding more to it will warm the planet, yes, absolutely, that's all well proven solid science known for years, yes. I have no disagreement with any of that. Disagreement is with how much warming there is. Is it going to be a catastrophe or is it going to be 0.5 degrees and as far as we can see the evidence the empirical evidence, and there's lots of it, all seems to point to it being around about half a degree to maybe one degree with CO<sub>2</sub> doubling which is not the catastrophic projections that are coming out from the climate models.<ref name=ABCTV>{{Cite web|title=Interview transcript Jo Nova & David Evans|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/webextras/jonova_davidevans_transcript.pdf|work=I Can Change Your Mind About&nbsp;... Climate|publisher=ABC Television|access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref></blockquote>


== Publications ==
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Nova had a five-part debate on AGW with Dr. Andrew Glikson, first on [[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant Online]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2010/04/glikson-or-nova|title=Glikson or Nova?|date=30 April 2010|work=Quadrant Magazine|access-date=18 August 2010|publisher=Quadrant Magazine|page=1}}</ref> and continuing on her own blog.<ref name="The Great Debate2">{{cite web|url=http://joannenova.com.au/2010/05/debate-with-glikson-part-iii-he-accidentally-vindicates-the-skeptics/|title=Great Debate Part III & IV – Glikson accidentally vindicates the skeptics!|last=Nova|first=Joanne|date=11 May 2010|publisher=Joanne Nova|page=1|access-date=18 August 2010}}</ref> In 2012, she appeared in the [[ABC Television]] documentary ''I Can Change Your Mind About&nbsp;... Climate'' with her partner David Evans, in discussion with [[Nick Minchin]] and [[Anna Rose]].<ref name="ABCTV2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/webextras/jonova_davidevans_transcript.pdf|title=Interview transcript Jo Nova & David Evans|work=I Can Change Your Mind About&nbsp;... Climate|publisher=ABC Television|access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref>
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Nova has published a book called ''Serious Science Party Tricks'', which is aimed at children.

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She is the author of ''The Skeptics Handbook'', which .<ref name=":">{{Cite book|url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-inquisition-of-climate-science/9780231157193|title=The Inquisition of Climate Science|last=Powell|first=James Lawrence|date=2011|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231527842|location=|pages=99–101}}</ref><ref>Sara Reardon, [http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/688.summary?sid=88c83cb6-184a-4fa7-a1fe-27aee206f60f Climate Change Sparks Battles in Classroom], [[Science (journal)|''Science'']] (subscription required), 5 August 2011: 333 (6043), 688–689</ref> In 2009, Nova issued a sequel, ''Global Bullies Want Your Money'', and in the same year she wrote a paper for the [[Science and Public Policy Institute|SPPI]] titled ''Climate Money''.<ref name=>{{Cite web|url=http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/climate_money.pdf|work=SPPI Originals|publisher=Science and Public Policy Institute|access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref>

Nova has also written for ''The Spectator'', and has had columns published on the Op-Ed pages of ''[[The Australian]]'' on journalism, public spending, free markets, and politics.


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 16:28, 3 December 2019

Joanne Nova
Born
Joanne Codling

1967
NationalityAustralian
EducationMolecular biology[1]
Alma materUniversity of Western Australia
SpouseDavid Evans
WebsiteJo Nova
External image
image icon Joanne Nova, 2009

Joanne Nova is an Australian science writer, blogger, and speaker. Born Joanne Codling, she adopted the stage name "Nova" in 1998 when she was preparing to host a children's television program.[2][3]

Education

Nova received a Bachelor of Science first class[citation needed] and won the F.H. Faulding and the Swan Brewery prizes at the University of Western Australia. Her major was microbiology, molecular biology. Nova received a Graduate Certificate in Scientific Communication from the Australian National University in 1989,[4] and she did honours research in 1990,[5] investigating DNA markers for use in muscular dystrophy trials.[1]

Career

For three years Nova was an Associate Lecturer of Science Communication at Australian National University.[citation needed]

For four years, Nova jointly co-ordinated [citation needed] the Shell Questacon Science Circus, which operates all over Australia.

From November 1999 to February 2000, Nova was the host of the first series of Australian children's science television show Y?[citation needed]

She was a regular guest on ABC Radio as a science communicator[citation needed]. She is a director of GoldNerds, a gold investment advice business.[6]

Views on global warming

As a blogger, Nova writes on the science, funding, and politics related to anthropogenic global warming (AGW).[7] Nova had a five-part debate on AGW with Dr. Andrew Glikson, first on Quadrant Online,[8] and continuing on her own blog.[9] In 2012, she appeared in the ABC Television documentary I Can Change Your Mind About ... Climate with her partner David Evans, in discussion with Nick Minchin and Anna Rose, in which she stated that:

... carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and that adding more to it will warm the planet, yes, absolutely, that's all well proven solid science known for years, yes. I have no disagreement with any of that. Disagreement is with how much warming there is. Is it going to be a catastrophe or is it going to be 0.5 degrees and as far as we can see the evidence the empirical evidence, and there's lots of it, all seems to point to it being around about half a degree to maybe one degree with CO2 doubling which is not the catastrophic projections that are coming out from the climate models.[10]

Publications

Nova has published a book called Serious Science Party Tricks, which is aimed at children.

She is the author of a sixteen-page illustrated text called The Skeptics Handbook, which was widely distributed in the United States by The Heartland Institute.[11][12][13] In 2009, Nova issued a sequel, Global Bullies Want Your Money, and in the same year she wrote a paper for the SPPI titled Climate Money.[14]

Nova has also written for The Spectator, and has had columns published on the Op-Ed pages of The Australian on journalism, public spending, free markets, and politics.

References

  1. ^ a b Nova, Joanne. "Who is Joanne?". Joanne Nova. p. 1. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  2. ^ ANU – CPAS – Publications – SCINAPSE Vol 7 No. 4, The Occasional Newsletter of the ANU/Questacon Graduate Program in Scientific Communication.
  3. ^ About JoNova
  4. ^ Joanne Nova (Codling)
  5. ^ Research Group
  6. ^ "GoldNerds".
  7. ^ Her blog is described as "skeptical" of climate science. Lombrozo, Tania (10 December 2012). "What Do Aliens, Climate Change And Princess Di Have in Common?". NPR. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  8. ^ "Glikson or Nova?". Quadrant Magazine. Quadrant Magazine. 30 April 2010. p. 1. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
  9. ^ Nova, Joanne (11 May 2010). "Great Debate Part III & IV – Glikson accidentally vindicates the skeptics!". Joanne Nova. p. 1. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
  10. ^ "Interview transcript Jo Nova & David Evans" (PDF). I Can Change Your Mind About ... Climate. ABC Television. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  11. ^ Powell, James Lawrence (2011). The Inquisition of Climate Science. Columbia University Press. pp. 99–101. ISBN 9780231527842.
  12. ^ Sara Reardon, Climate Change Sparks Battles in Classroom, Science (subscription required), 5 August 2011: 333 (6043), 688–689
  13. ^ Bast, Joe. "Heartland Replies to 'Science'". Somewhat Reasonable. The Heartland Institute. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  14. ^ Nova, Joanne. "Climate Money" (PDF). SPPI Originals. Science and Public Policy Institute. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
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