Open AccessAppenzeller receives 2005 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism
Author(s) -
Addison Lynn,
Appenzeller Tim
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2005eo250005
Subject(s) - excellence , task (project management) , climate change , set (abstract data type) , earth system science , environmental ethics , political science , library science , computer science , management , law , ecology , philosophy , economics , biology , programming language
When National Geographic began plans to address the issue of global climate change, we asked Tim Appenzeller to write the keystone piece for a series of articles that would document the most recent scientific consensus. His description of the carbon cycle in “The Case of the Missing Carbon” would be a fundamental part of the entire package. To explain that complex, finely calibrated global mechanism to six million readers was the task we set before him. A daunting task perhaps, but not for Tim Appenzeller, a science journalist with great talent for precise thinking and elegant writing. “The Case of the Missing Carbon” lays it all out, tracing the circulation of carbon between air, land, and water that sustains life on Earth and controls its climate.