Sentences with phrase «better climate change communication»

Here's his «Your Dot» piece filling in many blanks, and noting that no one should presume better climate change communication is the path to action on global warming:

Here's his «Your Dot» piece filling in many blanks, and noting that no one should presume better climate change communication is the path to action on global warming: Read more...

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I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

«Certainly a lot of people paid attention to it, and it sparked a very good conversation about what we're up against,» says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

During a 6 - 10 June training program, the 15 AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute fellows also engaged in interactive sessions on the science of science communication, public attitudes about climate change, how Americans consume science news, best practices in leveraging social media, and the fundamentals of engaging policymakers in science - based dialogue.

With a wealth of research on the science of climate change communication and a focus on practical tips and case studies, this Handbook serves as a valuable resource for IPCC authors - as well as the wider scientific community - to engage audiences with climate change.

IPF Luxembourg focuses on the production of communication and education material and the organisation of events to promote Polar Sciences as a mean to better understand Climate Change and the impacts it will have on our environments.

The Institute contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change and energy, and management of natural and social capital, as well as the enabling role of communication technologies in these areas.

In basic communication on climate change, if you're going to scare somebody you better have an opportunity or a solution to move toward and that hasn't always been there.

This is somewhat ironic, given that the book is one of the best examples we have yet seen regarding the effective communication of climate change issues.

I think we, as scientists sometimes fail in good communication especially when an issue is as complex as climate change and human effects.

Some other recent explorations of these problems include a Nature Reports commentary on climate communication by Maxwell Boykoff on the importance of distinguishing what is well established about climate change from those facets that are still mired in complexity.

The I.P.C.C. continues to be dominated by natural scientists who may be well intentioned but seem not to be aware that there are equal level (i.e., academic, «scientific») studies of communication and that such a discipline, together with other social sciences, can give crucial contributions to understanding the current and future realities of climate change.

An audience - focused approach views the mix of emotions evoked in climate change communication as a factor to be understood rather than something that simplistically defines a particular communications strategy or piece of climate change communication as «good» or «bad».»

We find this to be well - argued and in line with what we have been saying about global warming denialist interventions to manipulate the communication of climate change research.

We might all speculate that communication about climate change is «tricky,» but as you well know, at least in the U.S., there is a strong association between political identifications and interpretations of / reactions to what climate scientists say.

The next steps for Chiapas are to continue to work on better alignment of its policies and incentives, draft a climate change plan that includes REDD and improve its communications on REDD to dispel any negative perceptions about the program and distinguish it from the failed and now cancelled program, says Josefina Braña - Varela.

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Another study, in the journal Nature Climate Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.Climate Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.&Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.climate change and averting its risks.&change and averting its risks.»

Trenberth 2015 wants to focus on the effect of temperature anomalies in isolation to provide «a better basis for communication of climate change to the public.»

I also wonder if the morphing of the concern from chemtrails to geoengineering against climate change could present an opportunity for better communication: at least there is a sliver of common ground from which to understand the problem.

«Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values... holds great promise to help American society better understand and appreciate the risks of climate change...» — George Mason University, Center for Climate Change Communication, May climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values... holds great promise to help American society better understand and appreciate the risks of climate change...» — George Mason University, Center for Climate Change Communication, May climate change...» — George Mason University, Center for Climate Change Communication, May 9change...» — George Mason University, Center for Climate Change Communication, May Climate Change Communication, May 9Change Communication, May 9, 2011

This guidance document provides recommendations to policymakers in five areas: policy development; government and resources; curriculum development; capacity building of teachers and education planners; and public awareness, communication and stakeholder involvement, based on the case studies, as well as brief profiles of climate change and education in 16 countries» sustainable development policy processes.

Can better communication help sell the science of climate change?

(b) Although this matter has received a good deal of media and political attention, I have always regarded it as essentially a single graphic case study illustration of a much larger pattern of Administration interference with and spinning of climate change science communication.

That's what a new report from ecoAmerica and the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University's Earth Institute — entitled Connecting on Climate: A Guide to Effective Climate Change Communication — seeks to help us better understand.

Perhaps a meta communications study that included GMOs and vaccines as well as climate change might be interesting.

A good example of effective climate change communication.

Marketing and advertising documents about climate change, including communications to employees and spokesmen about how to discuss the subject, as well as advertisements and other public - facing documents.

These declining PBSG estimates also went viral, and websites such as the one run by psychologist John Cook, who is now part of the well - funded Center for Climate Change Communication, posted an article concluding, «Current analysis of subpopulations where data is sufficient clearly shows that those subpopulations are mainly in decline» and thus support the ESA listing of polar bears as threatened.

The disclosure mentioned above consisted of communications between Ridley and the UK energy minister Lord Bourne in which Ridley promotes a Texas - based company with «fascinating new technology, which may well interest the Department of Energy and Climate Change.»

The workshop focused the discussion on climate communication with diverse U.S. constituencies, and the challenge of building awareness among the disengaged and the unconvinced that climate change is occurring due to human causes, poses significant risks to our well - being, and can be addressed through changes in energy technologies, public policies, and the actions of individuals.

For example, projected changes in temperature or precipitation and the likely impact on at - risk values may be better described using analogies to more familiar risks (though more research in evaluating the effectiveness of analogies as climate communication tools is needed; e.g. (Raimi et al 2017)-RRB-.

Talking of which, we are flattered that Bob Ward — Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, erstwhile Director of Public Policy at risk insurance giants RMS and before that, Senior Manager for Policy Communication at the Royal Society — has dropped by to give his thoughts on our observation that, if you're going to go around accusing the opposition of corruption, you'd better be whiter than white yourself.

The exuberance with which the latest «97 %» study has been greeted by many of those who want to promote constructive engagement with climate science reflects a distressing resistance to take in the more general «scientific consensus» that exists among science of science communication researchers that neither a deficit in knowledge of facts — ones relating to the science of climate as well as ones relating to the extent of scientific consensus — nor a deficit in the ability to make sense of scientific information is the source of continuing conflict over climate change.

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JC comment: There are some important and insightful points here, that cut to the heart of the issue surrounding the «double ethical bind» better than anything else I've seen (see my 2011 essay Steven Schneider and the «double ethical bind» of climate change communication.)

The program takes great leaders and makes them exceptional, providing training in climate science, communications and organizing in order to better tell the story of climate change and inspire communities everywhere to take action.

Tebaldi is currently a research scientist at Stanford University's Department of Global Ecology, as well as the Princeton, New Jersey - based Climate Central, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the communication of climate change solClimate Central, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the communication of climate change solclimate change solutions.

The best way that The Guardian could support the work of Climate Change Scientists is to stop talking about Phil Jones» informal communications and start reading the results of his extensive collaborative and personal research.

The program takes great leaders and makes them exceptional, providing training in climate science, communications, and organizing to better tell the story of climate change and inspire communities everywhere to act.

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