PA42C:
Strategies for Climate Communication Across Contexts eLightning


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Session ID#: 45729

Session Description:
Climate change is one of the world’s most pressing issues, but polls show that many people do not prioritize the environment, actively deny climate change’s occurence, or are disinterested in policy solutions to climate change. Research consistently shows that knowledge deficits only partially explain public apathy towards climate change, prompting further research into how to best communicate its urgency and severity. This session aims to provide scientists with strategies for translating their research, engaging publics, and communicating climate change across a variety of contexts. In addition to using social media, adapting research for public talks, interfacing with local community groups and policy makers, this session also addresses best practices in the classroom. This session invites research and presentations from climate communicators, scientists who have adopted best practices for communicating about climate, teachers of climate science, and climate journalists to gather a wide scope of public engagement with climate change.
Primary Convener:  Emma Frances Bloomfield, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Convener:  Matthew S Lachniet, UNLV-Geosciences, Las Vegas, United States
Primary Liaison:  Emma Frances Bloomfield, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Chairs:  Matthew S Lachniet, UNLV-Geosciences, Las Vegas, United States and Emma Frances Bloomfield, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Matthew S Lachniet, UNLV-Geosciences, Las Vegas, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

21st century scientific publishing: policies, practices, and pitfalls (416414)
Caroline Coward, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
A Field Guide to Climate Contrarians: Strategies for Responding to Misinformation, Myths, and Misunderstandings (422190)
Karin B Kirk, Freelance Science Writer, Bozeman, MT, United States and John Cook, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
Communicating climate change science and solutions among communities of faith (401817)
Rachel L Lamb, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
Gender and Place: Core Elements of Effective Communication and Policy Solutions in Relation to Air Pollution. (362700)
Maria Loroño-Leturiondo1, Samuel Michael Illingworth2, Simon Cook3, Paul O'Hare4 and Stephen Hoon4, (1)Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M15, United Kingdom, (2)Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester, United Kingdom, (3)University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom, (4)Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
Mapping Coastal Residents’ Stories to Communicate About Sea level Rise (375679)
Sonia H Stephens, University of Central Florida, English and Texts & Technology, Orlando, FL, United States and Daniel Richards, Old Dominion University, English, Norfolk, VA, United States
Strategies for Communicating about Climate Change, Drought and Agriculture in California (456890)
Alexander Heeren, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Martha H Conklin, University of California Merced, Merced, United States, Tapan B Pathak, University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Davis, United States, Safeeq Khan, University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA, United States and Teenie Matlock, University of California Merced, Cognitive Science Program, Merced, CA, United States
Who are ‘lukewarmers’ and how should climate change researchers respond to them? (432379)
Robert Edward Thomas Ward, London School of Economics, London, WC2A, United Kingdom

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