PA31B:
Breaking through the Noise: Effective Climate Communication with People, Policymakers, and Pundits I Posters


Session ID#: 10154

Session Description:
Public attitudes toward climate change range from deeply engaged to disempowered to dismissive. How are scientists effectively working with citizens, media outlets, and policymakers to accurately inform dialogues and decisions around climate change, including possible solutions? This session will feature scientists, educators and communications professionals working to break through the noise in local, regional and national conversations about climate change. From citizen science to public forums, social media, business partnerships, traditional media outreach, new online communication initiatives, and direct engagement with policymakers, scientists and scientific institutions are actively working to improve public understanding of climate science and create space for integrating climate science into decision-making. Scientists and communicators are learning how to cut through divisive preconceptions, tell better stories, and  share their own values as they explain the significance of their work. This session will cover lessons learned from failures, success stories, and new climate communication outreach efforts and initiatives.
Primary Convener:  Gretchen T Goldman, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Aaron Huertas, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Communications, Washington, DC, United States and Kristin Wegner, GLOBE Program, The GLOBE Implementation Office, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Aaron Huertas, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Communications, Washington, DC, United States and Kristin Wegner, GLOBE Program, The GLOBE Implementation Office, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Aaron Huertas, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Communications, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6615 Legislation and regulations [PUBLIC ISSUES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Including Media in Field Research and Becoming Part of the Science Media (66362)
Mauri S Pelto, Nichols College, Dudley, MA, United States
Naukaoklimacie.pl: Between Science Blog and Mythbuster. (81645)
Szymon P Malinowski1, Marcin Popkiewicz2, Aleksandra Kardaś2 and Antoni Bielewicz3, (1)University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, (2)Naukaoklimacie.pl, Warsaw, Poland, (3)European Climate Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Effectively Communicating Information about Dynamically Changing Arctic Sea Ice to the Public through the Global Fiducials Program (68436)
Bruce Franklin Molnia1, Beverly Friesen2, Earl Wilson2 and Suzanne Noble2, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, National Civil Applications Center, Reston, United States, (2)USGS, Special Applications Science Center, Denver, CO, United States
COREDAR: COmmunicating Risk of sea level rise and Engaging stakeholDers in framing community based Adaptation stRategies (78074)
Saleem Khan Amsad Ibrahim Khan1, Robert S Chen2, Alexander M de Sherbinin1, Ramachandran Andimuthu3, Palanivelu Kandasamy3 and Team COREDAR, (1)Columbia University, Centre for International Earth Science Information Network, Pallisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Anna University, Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation Research, Chennai, India
Visualizing interconnections among climate risks (85732)
Tokuta Yokohata1, Katsumasa Tanaka2, Kazuya Nishina1, Kiyoshi Takahashi3, Seita Emori1, Masashi Kiguchi4, Yoshihiko Iseri5, Yasushi Honda6, Masashi Okada7, Yoshimitsu Masaki8, Akitomo Yamamoto9, Masahito Shigemitsu10, Masakazu Yoshimori11, Tetsuo Sueyoshi12, Naota Hanasaki13, Akihiko Ito1, Gen Sakurai14, Toshichika Iizumi15, Motoki Nishimori14, Wee Hoo Lim16, Chihiro Miyazaki17, Shinjiro Kanae5 and Taikan Oki4, (1)NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (3)National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Center for Social and Environmental Systems Research, Tsukuba, Japan, (4)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (5)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, (6)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (7)Agro-Meteorology Division, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, (8)Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan, (9)JAMSTEC, Research Center for Environmental Modeling and Application, Japan, (10)JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, (11)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (12)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (13)National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Center for Global Environmental Research, Tsukuba, Japan, (14)NIAES National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, (15)National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan, (16)Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, (17)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Policy Implications of Deep Decarbonization in the United States (86653)
Jim Williams, Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project, New York, NY, United States

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