Sentences with phrase «communicate about climate»

For example, we're looking at, to what degree, you can communicate about climate change as a public health concern.

Nisbet: You don't communicate about climate science in a vacuum; of course you have to consider the political context.

We need to change how we communicate about the climate crisis and talk about how it's happening right now, how it's harming our health, and how it's something we can solve if we act now.

Susan's 2008 article in Eos, «Improving How Scientists Communicate About Climate Change,» provides a brief summary of her advice to scientists.

In fact, I encourage everyone here to contribute how they would communicate about climate to the average Joe.

At these meetings, we learned about the basic science of climate change, and we shared techniques to communicate about climate change effectively with your friends, family, co-workers and neighbors.

Chapter 1 Why Should Public Health Professionals Communicate About Climate Change?

With climate science evolving but remaining uncertain, how can journalists accurately communicate about climate change in the media?

Quite possibly the most important thing to communicate about climate change is that there is a 97 % consensus amongst the scientific experts and scientific research that humans are causing global warming.

The scientists who communicate about climate change may regard these standards as wrong - headed or at best irrelevant, but scientists don't get to decide this in a democratic debate.

The Arctic and the Antarctic, and the scientific research done in these regions can be used to communicate about climate change and the challenges our societies must meet to mitigate its effects.

During the training in Seattle I learned skills and strategies for effectively communicating about climate change.

Through 25 years of communicating about climate change, conservation, industry, farming, fishing, disasters, technology and other facets of humanity's relationship with the home planet, I've become ever more convinced of two things:

Turned out the event was less about science than it was about communications — and the challenges of communicating about climate change were never more visible, or more daunting.

But I guess I'm also more determined than ever to continue communicating about climate change and communicating how to communicate about climate change to empower other people to talk about it in an effective way.

For years, my friend and fellow park ranger, Larry Perez, focused on communicating about climate change at Everglades National Park, Florida.

For me, one of my ingredients for communicating about climate change effectively is using humor.

With this in mind, for over four years now, my life's passion is communicating about climate changeeffectively.

Both of us feel using humor is vital in communicating about climate change.

The report is framed around communicating about climate change effectively — but read more closely and you'll quickly see that the reason we need help here to begin with is that humans have some pesky attributes, ones that render us pretty poor at grappling with slow - moving, long - range, collective problems like climate change.

But Exxon's response to the Royal Society would mark a turning point in how the company communicated about climate change.

Communicating about climate change as a public health problem also faces barriers from how messages are shared and spread online, suggests another recent study.

On April 15, 2014, the local St. Louis NPR radio program St. Louis On the Air interviewed my friends Larry Lazar, Dr. Jack Fishman, and I about communicating about climate change.

Over the past four years I have communicated about climate change, the most helpful website for me is Climatebites.org.

«And when scientists or policymakers are communicating about climate change with the general public, they should consider this rather than treating the public as one big monolithic audience.»

Not exact matches

An inquiry this year on communicating climate science led by Professor Chris Rapley at the UCL spelled it out: strong appeals to fear are unlikely to avert danger and can generate defensive avoidance («this is too scary to think about») or worries of being pressured or constricted («they are trying to manipulate me»).

If I have time, I will try to post soon about one important respect in which the HMIC report actually seems to rebut a claim made in the Home Affairs Committee report about the mutual failure of police and Climate Camp to communicate with one another.

The study results raise questions about the best way for researchers and other groups to communicate climate change to an audience that may not trust them as a reliable source of information.

One of the most significant findings is that high percentages of Americans — or roughly a third — say that they could easily change their minds about global warming, said Tom Bowman, president of the consulting firm Bowman Global Change, who has examined how climate scientists communicate to the public.

Talk about failure to communicate: In 1999, the $ 125 million Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in Martian orbit because navigation software used metric units while the thrusters were programmed to follow English measurements.

Next, the authors urge all those who communicate around climate science to confront lingering stereotypes about environmentalism and minority engagement.

(The full Statement of Task appears in Appendix A.) Normally, a technical issue such as surface temperature reconstructions might not generate widespread attention, but this case brings interesting lessons about how science works and how science, especially climate science, is communicated to policy makers and the public.

The use of the tool and images obtained from it will help coral reef managers to communicate about the threats posed to reefs by climate change with their colleagues, stakeholders and with policymakers.

Young people learn more about climate change, make a short film to communicate their ideas, and show it to their political representative.

Your classroom is organized, you have thought about the climate to be established and the expectations you want to communicate, you've developed and taught your rules and procedures, and you have systems in place to manage student learning.

The article identifies three strategies to help meaningfully incorporate student voice: (1) conducting climate surveys analysis with school leaders and students, (2) hosting student and teacher discussions about school related problems, and (3) facilitating the development of student - produced mixed media to communicate personal experiences.

The Institute views park visits as an opportunity for parks to communicate with a massive public audience about the impacts of climate change in a manner that is relevant to visitor's daily lives and the places they live.

1) Be a confident communicator 2) Talk about the real world, not abstract ideas 3) Connect with what matters to your audience 4) Tell a human story 5) Lead with what you know 6) Use the most effective visual communication Each is supported with references to the relevant literature and with climate - related («real world») examples that are themselves confidently communicated with effective visuals.

I traded e-mails this morning with a communications director from a major climate NGO who said this about the whole current «discussion»: Kind of symbolic of how much time the community spends talking about how to communicate science versus actually trying to communicate science.

It feels as if the narrative of «how to communicate climate issues» has gotten stuck in a room where no one is trying to figure out how to get out — there's just a group of people in the middle of the room arguing about how, theoretically, they might get out.

The piece, «The Nerd Loop: Why I'm Losing Interest in Communicating Climate Change,» is a long disquisition on why there's too much thumb sucking and circular analysis and not enough experimentation among institutions concerned about public indifference to risks posed by human - driven global warming.

Would I be using my standing as a climate scientist to communicate about civil liberties and national security issues about which I am not expert?

In communicating publicly about climate change, my first instinct is always to talk about the inequality, that the developing world will pay the largest price for a problem largely created by the developed world.

We focused initially on the enormous seabed earthquake off Japan and the resulting tsunami and then on the challenges facing journalists and activists trying to communicate about human - driven climate change in ways that hew to the science but also gain traction (a very tough challenge; we have very different views).

My talk, on Wednesday, was about the subject of my new book, Fool Me Twice: fighting the assault on science in America, and ways NASA scientists, particularly NASA climate scientists, can communicate complex science in the face of antiscience attacks, such as those by global warming deniers.

I gave up on Real Climate after a 2 day attempt to communicate about science there.

As climate scientist and communicator Katharine Hayhoe told Salon, «This time around, to its credit, the IPCC has gotten a lot more serious about improving its ability to communicate the report's message, through graphics and other ancillary products.»

As a public scholar with expertise in paleoclimate science, I communicate alarming, difficult information about the consequences to Earth and ocean systems that have come with past events of abrupt climate warming.

«It's actually effective to communicate to people about climate change, where they might think they experience it, which is in their lives in their neighborhoods, in their locality.

That's an argument than even deeply non-technical non-scientists of the general public (and Congress / Senate) can understand - part of their «figuring out who knows what about science» mental toolkit that Dan so admires - which is probably why climate science communicators on the sceptic side are so keen to communicate it.