Communicating Climate Change Science

Researchers often come up against the challenge of effectively communicating complex data to an audience beyond academia. In the case of climate-change science, this challenge is a special one. Now a highly politicized issue, climate change has camps of interested parties among specialists, policy makers, and the general public. In such an environment, what should researchers do—and what do they need to do—to make the scientific data widely accessible and interpretable? Panelists: Ned Gardiner, Climate Visualization Project Manager at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Climate Program Office; Gavin Schmidt, climate modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, co-founder of the blog RealClimate.org, and co-author of a popular science book Climate Change: Picturing the Science; and Sabine Marx, Managing Director at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University.

Date: April 6, 2010
Sponsor: Columbia University Scholarly Communication Program
Cosponsor: The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Category:

Education

Tags:

• columbia
• education
• climate change
• scholarly communication

[hennomarais]

Thank you for this. More people should see this!

[Quercuspalustris50]

Wow, wow, wow! The lecturer from 45 to 60 minute mark! So beautiful...

[felpaluche]

More uploads please. I truly enjoyed this.

[ecp73]

'It is a problem we have to deal with in society'

According to observational data your models are completely wrong. Can you not speak to that?

[ecp73]

Most people it went over their heads...as paraphrased to a statement by Gavin Schidt. I think his Napoleon complex explains a lot.

[ecp73]

@hennomarais

This guy is a dick.

[ecp73]

It's not a 'giant conspiracy' it's a nascent science. So for a few people to decide global taxation policies is not credible. The world is warming and it is because of c02 but by how much. What is the sensitivity? This guy is so arrogant.

[ecp73]

'Tacit knowledge that the scientific community holds.' Way to use ur maywest to another scientific field.

[ecp73]

You're models are not working.

[ecp73]

Fox News...already not talking about the science. Talk about the science.