PA31A:
Engaged Scientists: Personal and Professional Climate Action by Climate Change Researchers I
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Session ID#: 57733
Session Description:
How do personal climate actions influence the professional credibility of climate researchers? How can scientists be trusted voices and also change agents?
Scientists who research dimensions of climate change may ponder how our personal actions and commitments cohere and/or conflict with professional efforts. In the current high-stakes, high-profile and highly-politicized spaces of climate science and policy, our private behaviors are more frequently scrutinized in public space. Evaluations of our actions can spill into deliberations or debates about researcher credibility, appropriate roles, and the level of responsibility scientists have for being visible leaders in climate action.
Presenters will discuss challenges and opportunities associated with this state of affairs. They will examine links between personal actions, professional actions, and public voice. They will also consider how researchers’ actions can fit into and scale up to larger initiatives moving toward a sustainable society that are currently underway from the community to national/international level.
Primary Convener: Shelly Sommer, Director, Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener: Max Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison: Shelly Sommer, Director, Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs: Shelly Sommer, Director, Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Max Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Joshua Tewksbury, Future Earth, Colorado Global Hub, Boulder / Fort Collins, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison: Shelly Sommer, Director, Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
John P Holdren, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science, Arctic Initiative, Cambridge, MA, United States
Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University, History of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
David Gardiner Victor, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Shahzeen Z Attari, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, David H Krantz, Columbia University, New York, United States and Elke U Weber, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
John Kotcher, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Samantha Lichtin, Colorado General Assembly, Denver, CO, United States
Marc G Kramer, Washington State University Vancouver, School of the Environment, Vancouver, WA, United States
