They pretend they are above the fray and they are not involved, and yet they are the ones designing ad campaigns, designing lobbying campaigns, and designing the messages their clients want to convey around climate change".
Granted, as a university professor it's tough to feel anything other than cautious optimism when we find out that many U.S. middle and high school science teachers are either uncertain or unable to convey what climate scientists have confirmed (National Center for Science Education).
To address this problem, we developed a powerful, yet easy to use, web-based tool called Climate Wizard (http://ClimateWizard.org) that provides non-climate specialists with simple analyses and innovative graphical depictions for conveying how climate has and is projected to change within specific geographic areas throughout the world.
Still, the event was highly significant in the consensus it conveyed: The climate is simultaneously an environmental, social justice and moral issue that requires urgent action.
Forced confessions, so effective in that climate, convey little more than illegitimacy when they are used against an opposition that is asking for the counting of votes and the rule of law.
And perhaps my cool aesthetic distance itself does more to convey the Arctic climate of our family than any particular literary comparison".
It was amusing, in a sad sort of way, to see Romm zero in on my comment on NPR about mistakes in 2009, as if that showed how little I can be trusted to convey the seriousness of climate science.
By recruiting traditional images of Heaven, Hell and sacrificial lambs to convey the impact of climate change on a community, an ecosystem and a species, the repercussions of man-made disaster lie firmly where they belong: in moral territory.
Striking popular culture images of burnt landscapes, tidal waves and ice-bound cities have the potential to dramatically and emotively convey the dangers of climate change.
Can't scientists just use other words to convey information about the climate?
