#climatecommunication — Public Fediverse posts

📚 Yaroslava Kutsai has published a new book review in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly on Adrienne Russell’s "The Mediated Climate: How Journalists, Big Tech, and Activists Are Vying for Our Future".

The review reflects on climate communication, misinformation, digital platforms, journalism, and the need for collective responses to today’s intertwined ecological and media crises.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251335342

#CULCORC #Journalism #ClimateCommunication #MediaResearch

📚 Yaroslava Kutsai has published a new book review in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly on Adrienne Russell’s "The Mediated Climate: How Journalists, Big Tech, and Activists Are Vying for Our Future".

The review reflects on climate communication, misinformation, digital platforms, journalism, and the need for collective responses to today’s intertwined ecological and media crises.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251335342

#CULCORC #Journalism #ClimateCommunication #MediaResearch

📚 Yaroslava Kutsai has published a new book review in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly on Adrienne Russell’s "The Mediated Climate: How Journalists, Big Tech, and Activists Are Vying for Our Future".

The review reflects on climate communication, misinformation, digital platforms, journalism, and the need for collective responses to today’s intertwined ecological and media crises.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251335342

#CULCORC #Journalism #ClimateCommunication #MediaResearch

📚 Yaroslava Kutsai has published a new book review in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly on Adrienne Russell’s "The Mediated Climate: How Journalists, Big Tech, and Activists Are Vying for Our Future".

The review reflects on climate communication, misinformation, digital platforms, journalism, and the need for collective responses to today’s intertwined ecological and media crises.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251335342

#CULCORC #Journalism #ClimateCommunication #MediaResearch

📚 New book review by Yaroslava Kutsai in Mass Communication and Society:

“Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power”

A sharp reflection on how climate crisis narratives circulate in media and how they may intersect with forms of political power and authoritarian discourse.

🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/dn-gScYu

#BookReview #ClimateCommunication #MediaStudies #PoliticalCommunication
#CULCORC

📚 New book review by Yaroslava Kutsai in Mass Communication and Society:

“Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power”

A sharp reflection on how climate crisis narratives circulate in media and how they may intersect with forms of political power and authoritarian discourse.

🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/dn-gScYu

#BookReview #ClimateCommunication #MediaStudies #PoliticalCommunication
#CULCORC

📚 New book review by Yaroslava Kutsai in Mass Communication and Society:

“Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power”

A sharp reflection on how climate crisis narratives circulate in media and how they may intersect with forms of political power and authoritarian discourse.

🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/dn-gScYu

#BookReview #ClimateCommunication #MediaStudies #PoliticalCommunication
#CULCORC

📚 New book review by Yaroslava Kutsai in Mass Communication and Society:

“Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power”

A sharp reflection on how climate crisis narratives circulate in media and how they may intersect with forms of political power and authoritarian discourse.

🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/dn-gScYu

#BookReview #ClimateCommunication #MediaStudies #PoliticalCommunication
#CULCORC

📚 New book review by Yaroslava Kutsai in Mass Communication and Society:

“Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power”

A sharp reflection on how climate crisis narratives circulate in media and how they may intersect with forms of political power and authoritarian discourse.

🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/dn-gScYu

#BookReview #ClimateCommunication #MediaStudies #PoliticalCommunication
#CULCORC

https://www.europesays.com/people/31401/ Firestorm over Bill Gates’ climate message shouldn’t cloud the facts #BillGates #CChangeConversations #ClimateCommunication #ClimateTechnology #ClimateTippingPoints #COP30 #ExtremeHeat #ExtremeWeather #HurricaneMelissa #RenewableEnergy #SeaLevelRise

The language of climate redemption

By Bob Inglis, republicEn.org  The language of redemption is what’s missing from the climate conversation. Remarkably, that language…
#Climate #ClimateChange #Climate-Change #carbontax #climatechange #climatecommunication #communitarianegalitarians #Economists #faith #fossilfuels #globalwarming #hierarchicalindividualists #left #right #tippingfee
https://www.europesays.com/2904525/

Effective storytelling can encourage climate action from policymakers and the public
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #Environment #Sustainability #PublicPolicy #ClimateCommunication #Media #Education #Science #Tech #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #PolicyMaking
https://the-14.com/effective-storytelling-can-encourage-climate-action-from-policymakers-and-the-public/

Effective storytelling can encourage climate action from policymakers and the public
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #Environment #Sustainability #PublicPolicy #ClimateCommunication #Media #Education #Science #Tech #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #PolicyMaking
https://the-14.com/effective-storytelling-can-encourage-climate-action-from-policymakers-and-the-public/

Effective storytelling can encourage climate action from policymakers and the public
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #Environment #Sustainability #PublicPolicy #ClimateCommunication #Media #Education #Science #Tech #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #PolicyMaking
https://the-14.com/effective-storytelling-can-encourage-climate-action-from-policymakers-and-the-public/

Effective storytelling can encourage climate action from policymakers and the public
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #Environment #Sustainability #PublicPolicy #ClimateCommunication #Media #Education #Science #Tech #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #PolicyMaking
https://the-14.com/effective-storytelling-can-encourage-climate-action-from-policymakers-and-the-public/

Effective storytelling can encourage climate action from policymakers and the public
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #Environment #Sustainability #PublicPolicy #ClimateCommunication #Media #Education #Science #Tech #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #PolicyMaking
https://the-14.com/effective-storytelling-can-encourage-climate-action-from-policymakers-and-the-public/

#PhD #position Social cohesion and #climate #polarization: how to communicate effectively about climate change

https://werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/phd-position-social-cohesion-and-climate-polarization-how-to-communicate-effectively-about-climate-change-1796/?lang=en

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PhDPosition #philosophy #sociology #job #Groningen #Netherlands #getfediHired #ClimateCommunication #communication #disinformation

Extreme weather isn’t just damage — it fuels climate awareness 🌪🔥 A new paper says putting “real communities” affected by floods, storms and fires at the center of climate messaging can boost support for policies and broaden coalitions for action. 🌍📣 #ClimateCommunication
https://www.theenergymix.com/climate-messages-should-spotlight-real-communities-after-extreme-weather-researchers-say/

We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero
#Environment #ClimateChange #NetZero #UK #Politics #MediaAnalysis #Journalism #ClimatePolicy #PublicOpinion #EnergyPolicy #ClimateCommunication #Research #The14
https://the-14.com/we-analysed-73000-articles-and-found-the-uk-media-is-divorcing-climate-change-from-net-zero/

#ScienceTalk #ScienceCommunication #ClimateCommunication #ClimateDisruption

dr. #MuhammadIttefaq #short with #DavidSpratt

"We are way past bedtime now"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KT_SBxPeje0

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#ScienceTalk #ScienceCommunication #ClimateCommunication #ClimateDisruption

dr. #MuhammadIttefaq #short with #DavidSpratt

"We are way past bedtime now"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KT_SBxPeje0

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#ScienceTalk #ScienceCommunication #ClimateCommunication #ClimateDisruption

dr. #MuhammadIttefaq #short with #DavidSpratt

"We are way past bedtime now"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KT_SBxPeje0

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#ScienceTalk #ScienceCommunication #ClimateCommunication #ClimateDisruption

dr. #MuhammadIttefaq #short with #DavidSpratt

"We are way past bedtime now"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KT_SBxPeje0

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#ScienceTalk #ScienceCommunication #ClimateCommunication #ClimateDisruption

dr. #MuhammadIttefaq #short with #DavidSpratt

"We are way past bedtime now"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KT_SBxPeje0

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

A lost playthrough of Daybreak is brutal.

Frustrating. Maybe because the defeat feels epistemically charged: as if climate futures themselves were lost.

I’m currently working with a colleague on this game in a chapter for an upcoming edited volume on humans, machines & climate crisis. We analyse how knowledge, imaginaries and epistemics are translated into playable mechanics — and what performing the game does to futuring.

Curious: has anyone here played Daybreak / e-Mission?
What did you notice?

#ScienceCommunication #ClimateCommunication #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #TechniquesOfFuturing #EpistemologyOfGames #BoardGames #DaybreakGame

A lost playthrough of Daybreak is brutal.

Frustrating. Maybe because the defeat feels epistemically charged: as if climate futures themselves were lost.

I’m currently working with a colleague on this game in a chapter for an upcoming edited volume on humans, machines & climate crisis. We analyse how knowledge, imaginaries and epistemics are translated into playable mechanics — and what performing the game does to futuring.

Curious: has anyone here played Daybreak / e-Mission?
What did you notice?

#ScienceCommunication #ClimateCommunication #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #TechniquesOfFuturing #EpistemologyOfGames #BoardGames #DaybreakGame

A lost playthrough of Daybreak is brutal.

Frustrating. Maybe because the defeat feels epistemically charged: as if climate futures themselves were lost.

I’m currently working with a colleague on this game in a chapter for an upcoming edited volume on humans, machines & climate crisis. We analyse how knowledge, imaginaries and epistemics are translated into playable mechanics — and what performing the game does to futuring.

Curious: has anyone here played Daybreak / e-Mission?
What did you notice?

#ScienceCommunication #ClimateCommunication #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #TechniquesOfFuturing #EpistemologyOfGames #BoardGames #DaybreakGame

"Morton stresses that fear appeals, coupled with an action plan or a solution, ARE effective, and that it is guilt, instead of fear, that paralyzes us.
Alongside evidence, appeal to people’s values."

https://climatesteps.org/2025/07/07/why-is-psychology-important-in-communicating-effectively-about-climate-change-and-how-can-we-tap-in/
#ClimateCommunication

🔥🌍 Experiencing extreme weather events alone isn't enough to drive support for climate policies. People need to believe these events are actually linked to climate change. This is why effective climate communication is so important.

New study combines large-scale natural and social science data from 68 countries (N = 71,922).

Another valuable contribution from the TISP consortium! 👏

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02372-4

#ClimateChange #ClimateScience #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCommunication

#3GoodThings or quite a bit more actually.

Lately things are going quite good for me personally.

1) For my education in animal assisted intervention I'm writing a paper about animal assisted climate communication, combining two of my passions. And I think it will be really good.

2) I want to work in animal assisted education later, but since animal assisted intervention is more of an advanced education I want to get a basic education in education too. My plan is to start both social education and environmental education in the fall. Social education is, I believe, the thing that most people working in animal assisted education have in their curriculum, so it's probably a good thing to have, while environmental education is rather rare, so it might give me an edge for job applications. But mostly I'm just convinced that both will teach me a lot of great skills and knowledge.

3) I've started taking my dog Platon to work (personal assistance for a woman with MS) and since its going well I think I can take him with me every time in the future and that means I can work more (because my mom can't always take Platon) and might finally get out of the monthly red numbers that I'm in for many years now.

4) We're also close to getting the house ready to rent out a few rooms for a little side-money.
That will be another relief financially, but mostly I hope it will mean I have some cool roommates. And maybe some people who can take Platon sometimes.

5) I came out of a depression more than a year ago and kept still taking one of the meds, as its supposed to help the brain get used to how the internal chemistry should be. But it really messed with my memory. Now that spring is coming I'm reducing and eventually getting rid of the medication and I can already tell that my memory is getting a bit better again.

6) I randomly met a friend from school the other day and we started going on walks together regularly and have great talks. That's a kind of friendship I've been missing for a long time.

7) I'm quite proud of what we accomplished at the :FediverseFoundation: lately. We finished 2024 almost in the black figures, finally created an account (https://fedi.at/@FediverseFoundation), are regularly posting on our blog (https://fediverse.foundation/en/blog/) and will launch a Pixelfed server tomorrow (https://instapix.org). I'm excited!

8-99) (My memory still isn't great, so I probably forgot a few things)

@3goodthings

#MentalHealth #mh #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedEducation #AnimalAssistedIntervention #SocialEducation #EnvironmentalEducation #ClimateCommunication #ClimatePsychology #education #ScientificPaper #gratitude #grateful #GoodNews

#3GoodThings or quite a bit more actually.

Lately things are going quite good for me personally.

1) For my education in animal assisted intervention I'm writing a paper about animal assisted climate communication, combining two of my passions. And I think it will be really good.

2) I want to work in animal assisted education later, but since animal assisted intervention is more of an advanced education I want to get a basic education in education too. My plan is to start both social education and environmental education in the fall. Social education is, I believe, the thing that most people working in animal assisted education have in their curriculum, so it's probably a good thing to have, while environmental education is rather rare, so it might give me an edge for job applications. But mostly I'm just convinced that both will teach me a lot of great skills and knowledge.

3) I've started taking my dog Platon to work (personal assistance for a woman with MS) and since its going well I think I can take him with me every time in the future and that means I can work more (because my mom can't always take Platon) and might finally get out of the monthly red numbers that I'm in for many years now.

4) We're also close to getting the house ready to rent out a few rooms for a little side-money.
That will be another relief financially, but mostly I hope it will mean I have some cool roommates. And maybe some people who can take Platon sometimes.

5) I came out of a depression more than a year ago and kept still taking one of the meds, as its supposed to help the brain get used to how the internal chemistry should be. But it really messed with my memory. Now that spring is coming I'm reducing and eventually getting rid of the medication and I can already tell that my memory is getting a bit better again.

6) I randomly met a friend from school the other day and we started going on walks together regularly and have great talks. That's a kind of friendship I've been missing for a long time.

7) I'm quite proud of what we accomplished at the :FediverseFoundation: lately. We finished 2024 almost in the black figures, finally created an account (https://fedi.at/@FediverseFoundation), are regularly posting on our blog (https://fediverse.foundation/en/blog/) and will launch a Pixelfed server tomorrow (https://instapix.org). I'm excited!

8-99) (My memory still isn't great, so I probably forgot a few things)

@3goodthings

#MentalHealth #mh #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedEducation #AnimalAssistedIntervention #SocialEducation #EnvironmentalEducation #ClimateCommunication #ClimatePsychology #education #ScientificPaper #gratitude #grateful #GoodNews

#3GoodThings or quite a bit more actually.

Lately things are going quite good for me personally.

1) For my education in animal assisted intervention I'm writing a paper about animal assisted climate communication, combining two of my passions. And I think it will be really good.

2) I want to work in animal assisted education later, but since animal assisted intervention is more of an advanced education I want to get a basic education in education too. My plan is to start both social education and environmental education in the fall. Social education is, I believe, the thing that most people working in animal assisted education have in their curriculum, so it's probably a good thing to have, while environmental education is rather rare, so it might give me an edge for job applications. But mostly I'm just convinced that both will teach me a lot of great skills and knowledge.

3) I've started taking my dog Platon to work (personal assistance for a woman with MS) and since its going well I think I can take him with me every time in the future and that means I can work more (because my mom can't always take Platon) and might finally get out of the monthly red numbers that I'm in for many years now.

4) We're also close to getting the house ready to rent out a few rooms for a little side-money.
That will be another relief financially, but mostly I hope it will mean I have some cool roommates. And maybe some people who can take Platon sometimes.

5) I came out of a depression more than a year ago and kept still taking one of the meds, as its supposed to help the brain get used to how the internal chemistry should be. But it really messed with my memory. Now that spring is coming I'm reducing and eventually getting rid of the medication and I can already tell that my memory is getting a bit better again.

6) I randomly met a friend from school the other day and we started going on walks together regularly and have great talks. That's a kind of friendship I've been missing for a long time.

7) I'm quite proud of what we accomplished at the :FediverseFoundation: lately. We finished 2024 almost in the black figures, finally created an account (https://fedi.at/@FediverseFoundation), are regularly posting on our blog (https://fediverse.foundation/en/blog/) and will launch a Pixelfed server tomorrow (https://instapix.org). I'm excited!

8-99) (My memory still isn't great, so I probably forgot a few things)

@3goodthings

#MentalHealth #mh #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedEducation #AnimalAssistedIntervention #SocialEducation #EnvironmentalEducation #ClimateCommunication #ClimatePsychology #education #ScientificPaper #gratitude #grateful #GoodNews

#3GoodThings or quite a bit more actually.

Lately things are going quite good for me personally.

1) For my education in animal assisted intervention I'm writing a paper about animal assisted climate communication, combining two of my passions. And I think it will be really good.

2) I want to work in animal assisted education later, but since animal assisted intervention is more of an advanced education I want to get a basic education in education too. My plan is to start both social education and environmental education in the fall. Social education is, I believe, the thing that most people working in animal assisted education have in their curriculum, so it's probably a good thing to have, while environmental education is rather rare, so it might give me an edge for job applications. But mostly I'm just convinced that both will teach me a lot of great skills and knowledge.

3) I've started taking my dog Platon to work (personal assistance for a woman with MS) and since its going well I think I can take him with me every time in the future and that means I can work more (because my mom can't always take Platon) and might finally get out of the monthly red numbers that I'm in for many years now.

4) We're also close to getting the house ready to rent out a few rooms for a little side-money.
That will be another relief financially, but mostly I hope it will mean I have some cool roommates. And maybe some people who can take Platon sometimes.

5) I came out of a depression more than a year ago and kept still taking one of the meds, as its supposed to help the brain get used to how the internal chemistry should be. But it really messed with my memory. Now that spring is coming I'm reducing and eventually getting rid of the medication and I can already tell that my memory is getting a bit better again.

6) I randomly met a friend from school the other day and we started going on walks together regularly and have great talks. That's a kind of friendship I've been missing for a long time.

7) I'm quite proud of what we accomplished at the :FediverseFoundation: lately. We finished 2024 almost in the black figures, finally created an account (https://fedi.at/@FediverseFoundation), are regularly posting on our blog (https://fediverse.foundation/en/blog/) and will launch a Pixelfed server tomorrow (https://instapix.org). I'm excited!

8-99) (My memory still isn't great, so I probably forgot a few things)

@3goodthings

#MentalHealth #mh #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedEducation #AnimalAssistedIntervention #SocialEducation #EnvironmentalEducation #ClimateCommunication #ClimatePsychology #education #ScientificPaper #gratitude #grateful #GoodNews

#3GoodThings or quite a bit more actually.

Lately things are going quite good for me personally.

1) For my education in animal assisted intervention I'm writing a paper about animal assisted climate communication, combining two of my passions. And I think it will be really good.

2) I want to work in animal assisted education later, but since animal assisted intervention is more of an advanced education I want to get a basic education in education too. My plan is to start both social education and environmental education in the fall. Social education is, I believe, the thing that most people working in animal assisted education have in their curriculum, so it's probably a good thing to have, while environmental education is rather rare, so it might give me an edge for job applications. But mostly I'm just convinced that both will teach me a lot of great skills and knowledge.

3) I've started taking my dog Platon to work (personal assistance for a woman with MS) and since its going well I think I can take him with me every time in the future and that means I can work more (because my mom can't always take Platon) and might finally get out of the monthly red numbers that I'm in for many years now.

4) We're also close to getting the house ready to rent out a few rooms for a little side-money.
That will be another relief financially, but mostly I hope it will mean I have some cool roommates. And maybe some people who can take Platon sometimes.

5) I came out of a depression more than a year ago and kept still taking one of the meds, as its supposed to help the brain get used to how the internal chemistry should be. But it really messed with my memory. Now that spring is coming I'm reducing and eventually getting rid of the medication and I can already tell that my memory is getting a bit better again.

6) I randomly met a friend from school the other day and we started going on walks together regularly and have great talks. That's a kind of friendship I've been missing for a long time.

7) I'm quite proud of what we accomplished at the :FediverseFoundation: lately. We finished 2024 almost in the black figures, finally created an account (https://fedi.at/@FediverseFoundation), are regularly posting on our blog (https://fediverse.foundation/en/blog/) and will launch a Pixelfed server tomorrow (https://instapix.org). I'm excited!

8-99) (My memory still isn't great, so I probably forgot a few things)

@3goodthings

#MentalHealth #mh #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedEducation #AnimalAssistedIntervention #SocialEducation #EnvironmentalEducation #ClimateCommunication #ClimatePsychology #education #ScientificPaper #gratitude #grateful #GoodNews

@KeithMcNeill

And don't miss this cited work:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378015000485

#ClimateCommunication

A new outlet covers climate policy in the language Brazil knows best: Soccer.

"The goal of all this isn’t to lure in die-hard soccer fans (though that would be a bonus), Kaz said, but rather present climate policy in a language people already understand, and make it a little fun."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/a-new-outlet-covers-climate-policy-in-the-language-brazil-knows-best-soccer/
#ClimateCommunication

Be honest.
So far you understood #ClimateCommunication as...

a) any communication about the climate.
b) any communication about the climate by someone who is on the side of mitigating the climate crisis, like an activist.
c) any factual communication about climate backed by climate science.
d) communication about climate that has a higher chance of not driving the target audience into defense mechanisms (denial, false hope, greenwashing,...) because its backed by climate psychology.

@petergleick

Such hard work in this mediascape.

Stay on message. If you get diverted, say "good question" and then bring it back to climate change.

If asked about probabilities and if this could be non climate related, the answer is a simple "no". Do not let them open the "uncertainty" door. State "no" first, then if you must, you can hedge with "the odds of that are so low...."

Every single question, go back to climate change.

If you can, throw in "start with banning private jets" or whatever snazzy statement you feel like but stirring the pot for live interviews is the best. You won't get many chances to get your message out.

Stay United. Do not undermine other researchers. They will ask leading questions and try to trap you into saying something they want printed. Do not be afraid to take control. "I think you've misunderstood, let me rephrase that to..."

Serious offer for any scientist about to do media, ping me, I'll be happy to do some basic media training before go time. Make sure you know what to expect and most importantly, any traps they may try to lay.

When poor people are getting devastated by climate change, nobody cares. This is hitting extremely rich people so this is as much media as climate change will get. We need to make use of it.

#ScienceCommunication
#ClimateCommunication

@breadandcircuses

Well, in fairness (not that fairness is really a thing in this dire picture), the new US ship captain will be passing out blinders to all of his crew. So the other captains might be waiting to see how that goes.

And the change at the helm will bring new flexibilty--admittedly, not in physics, but in how to ignore physics with real flare...not that there will be other ships around capable of responding to such flares.

- - - - -

In all seriousness, though, while people already sold on the urgency of climate change can see cartoons like this and understand them, I actually think that this presentation promotes a misunderstanding of a serious nature.

Climate change is not a big event that suddenly happens in one particular moment, like the impact with an iceberg, or an asteroid strike in Don't Look Up. But metaphors like this, well meaning as they are in their intent that you focus on different aspects of the analogy, support the particular kind of denial that the new crew will be using a lot of: pointing to the absence of some singular cataclysm like that is proof none is coming.

And the picture also makes it look like at any time we could just change course and all would be well. It also supports the metaphor that any single person could be the superhero that swoops in to save us by making that singular, smart course correction in any moment before the cataclysm. Neither the problem nor its possible solutions, if any remain at this point, are as crisp and neat and simple as that.

Climate change, at this point, is more like an endless array of ever-more-densely packed icebergs with a lot of small boats each having the creeping realization that this was not the path we should be on and that there isn't any easy way out of the maze. We watch as our fellow ships, one by one, crash into less dramatic-looking, yet equally deadly, smaller bergs and tell ourselves that this is not what's coming for us, that icebergs of that size are normal, that historically many boats do not get sunk by icebergs, that we'll be fine.

#climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #COP29 #icebergs #ClimateCommunication #Election2024 #Project2025 #NOAA #NASA #FEMA

"Many #climate activists believe that even if advocates and academics can’t sway the hardened opinions of the dismissive, extreme weather can wake anyone up.

The data disagrees."

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/09/extreme-weather-has-had-a-surprising-impact-on-voters-attitudes-about-climate-change/

More needed to #ConnectTheDots in #ClimateCommunication

More - and better - #ClimateCommunication needed!

"[Many Americans say] climate change is caused by the ozone hole, which it is not. How to solve it? Most people say “reduce, reuse and recycle,” which won’t solve it.

Yale research shows that when you present any group of Americans, even conservatives, with the truth, support for climate action skyrockets. We have no campaign to get this truth to the public at scale."

https://www.theframelab.org/will-climate-funders-allow-enlighmenment-fallacy-destroy-planet-david-fenton/

"Research shows that communicating the #health impacts of #ClimateChange can strengthen public engagement with climate issues and generate support for climate policies and action. Yet, analysis of more than 2.4 million English-language social media posts and news data demonstrates a significant gap of when this connection is being made in online public discourse and news headlines."

https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/social-media-news-data-analysis-shows-urgent-need-to-better-communicate-the-health-impact-of-climate-change/

More needed to #ConnectTheDots in #ClimateCommunication

@breadandcircuses

This is an important message, but messages of this kind need to say the part about the survival, or lack thereof in EVERY sentence that mentions big or rapid past change.

Syntactically, for people who are barely reading, which is most people, with the eyes glazed over, you are not shocking people but confirming the disinformation, which says this has happened many times before. What makes the message different for people who ARE reading carefull (by which I mean the people who already know climate is a severe threat), is the part about survival rates.

Even the graphs need to make sure to have a little dotted line of human livability so the spikes can be seen crossing them. Again, blurring things out, a graph with a bunch of jagged lurches looks to deniers pretty much like "we've been through ice ages before", or "hey this is cyclic, get used to it".

We wouldn't be having to message as hard as we are if people were actually hearing what was being said, so we need to be applying as much thought/science to why people are avoiding the message as we're applying to the original science. Good intentions are fine and soothing, but the message is not getting through.

I know there's a temptation to read back through the text of such articles and say "but I said that". I'm really encouraging a pedantic reporting hygiene in which no single sentence can be taken out of context (without lopping off half of it) and miss the part about how humans weren't and most animals didn't survive. It's not enough to have said truth, you have to set truth in a way that will reach people who are not listening for it.

e.g., the headline in the article says "...uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts...". Out of context, this would falsely seem to confirm common misinformation. We need to encourage reporters to, and we who repeat these things need to be careful to, harden the individual sentences to say things like "...a history of deadly temperature swings..." etc. Or "unsurvivable" or "species-ending". The information is definitely in the article, just not in every sentence

Think of it like writing and performing a song where the main message is in a refrain that is repeated regularly and intended to be the part that the whole audience memorizes and sings along.

Headlines are perhaps the hardest because they're often written by an editor rather than the writer who spent a lot of time understanding it.

Just a hunch on my part, I suppose. Maybe this isn't where we're losing people, or maybe there's a better way, but right now it's my best guess for a simple thing we could do to improve messaging.

Think of it like that game where if you change one letter or one word in a movie title, it turns it into a completely different movie. And then imagine a bunch of paid professionals out there doing that every single climate story. And a bunch of amateurs doing it by accident to themselves when they glance at a headline for too little time.

And I probably don't do enough of this either. But maybe it's easier to see in what other people write. Especially important for people who seem to be saying good things, yet then not being heard. Make your messages count. Don't just echo good science, package it in a way that is harder to misunderstand or misquote.

#climate #ClimateCommunication

@Global_Repercussions @nando161

I'm with you 100% here.

Climate people keep looking at the information content of these articles and thinking "surely this will convince them", but I am convinced this is not how the public thinks of it.

In Dr. Strangelove, toward the beginning, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (played by Peter Sellers) has been told there is a military action going on, but he happens across a radio (most of which have been confiscated) and realizes it is playing entertainment. He correctly concludes that if this were an ACTUAL emergency, the entertainment stations would be shut down and people throughout society would be taking directions about how to respond.

This is what I think about Climate. People do not understand climate talk, though they hear dire summaries waft by and they think "Could this be for real?" Then they see there are fluff pieces around, not just following, but even at higher priority. At this point, they shrug and go "If this were a real emergency, it would have better placement." And that is that. The entirety of the content is ignored because its placement says there's nothing to worry about. Newspaper editors (or TV producers) would surely give it better and more sweeping coverage if it was anything that mattered.

I am sad the public does not get it, but their conclusions are entirely foreseeable. What bugs is journalism. I want to attribute this to laziness and incompetence, but I have seen this played out in movies and know what really happened.

At some point, television (and its internet progeny) became about advertising and lost any sense of its responsibility to audiences. At that point, it was an entirely different beast.

The movie Network, hard to appreciate if you're just seeing it first now because it will seem so ho hum, was eye-opening in its time. Worth seeing for anyone who has not.

Also, many have seen the movie Apollo 13, but there was a limited series made for HBO by Tom Hanks called From Earth to the Moon. In one-hour episodes, it takes you through the Apollo program, telling lots of really cool stuff. You'd expect the episode about Apollo 13 to be a shorter version of the movie Apollo 13, but it is not. Instead it is a telling of a story very like that which is told in Network, of the changing of the guard between journalism that cared about things like truth, perspective, and compassion and a newer guard that only cares about shock, novelty, and grabbing eyeballs. It's worth watching that series anyway, but I personally think of that particular episode as a modern telling of the Network story.

Yes, I appeal a lot to movies to tell stories. There may be some irony in that when I'm talking about the gamification of journalism. But the problem isn't the medium. The problem is the commitment to fact, priority, consequence, etc. Movies allow us to download not just information but a visceral sense of the significance of an issue. It's impossible to watch these movies and not see the problem that ad-driven news coverage has become. It distorts everything. It wouldn't be a total lie to list it as a cause of climate change, right up there as a peer of capitalism, since in fact advertising-driven news is NOT an obvious consequence of capitalism.

In the US, at least, news used to have a legal requirement to operate in the public interest when it was carried over finite bandwidth in broadcast analog space, and carrying real news was part of what it took to get a license. When we went to cable, we gave all that up because there was not a finite spectrum, but we could have kept the requirement just because it was a good idea.

Our society makes choices all the time, and we laud free society for allowing a lot of things to happen that mightn't otherwise. And I'm not anti-freedom. But freedom is also a risk because bad things can happen, both intentionally and unintentionally. To survive, we have to be open to the idea that the bad things still need to be kept in check. We can't just say that any attempt to rein those things in is an infringement of freedom and mustn't happen because they're starting to add up and be toxic.

A balance must be maintained. If not forced, we need to make it important to people to do voluntarily, and to instill in people an understanding that if things like that are not done voluntarily, we'll end up either killing ourselves or realizing a free society is too dangerous.

We seem on the brink of collectively finding out that fact only by going extinct, because so far we insist on collective denial, and that only works for a while. Physics can only be ignored for a while, and after that it takes no prisoners.

http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2020/03/humanitys-superpower_28.html

#climate #journalism #ClimateCommunication #media #ethics #TechNews #collapse #extinction #ClimateDenial

Season 1 Episode 8: Building Climate Resilience in the Western US, with Prof. Lisa Dilling

In this episode, we’re talking to Professor Lisa Dilling, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, about building networks of people through which information about regional climate predictions can flow to people and information about the needs, predicaments, and questions of people can flow to climate researchers.

As the changing climate increasingly disrupts our ways of life, we have three choices: do nothing, attempt to stop or even reverse climate change, and/or figure out how to withstand it. Option one is a terrible idea and the ship has (mostly) sailed on option two. But option three is how we learn to live—and maybe even thrive—in our changing world. Part of this is figuring out how to convey the information that climate researchers have gathered to the people—like farmers, water managers, and urban planners—who need to make decisions now—about things like what crops to plant, where to get water for everyone and how to allocate it, and where to plant trees—for both the near and slightly distant future.

You can follow Lisa Dilling on Twitter at @LisaD144, and the Western Water Assessment program at University of Colorado here: @WWAnews or visit their website at https://wwa.colorado.edu/

https://youtu.be/m5Vk8mlBsEE?si=aRza-e3MDspPDM-I

#Episode #Season1 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #ClimateCommunication #UniversityOfColorado #WesternWaterAssessment #agriculture

Season 1 Episode 8: Building Climate Resilience in the Western US, with Prof. Lisa Dilling

In this episode, we’re talking to Professor Lisa Dilling, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, about building networks of people through which information about regional climate predictions can flow to people and information about the needs, predicaments, and questions of people can flow to climate researchers.

As the changing climate increasingly disrupts our ways of life, we have three choices: do nothing, attempt to stop or even reverse climate change, and/or figure out how to withstand it. Option one is a terrible idea and the ship has (mostly) sailed on option two. But option three is how we learn to live—and maybe even thrive—in our changing world. Part of this is figuring out how to convey the information that climate researchers have gathered to the people—like farmers, water managers, and urban planners—who need to make decisions now—about things like what crops to plant, where to get water for everyone and how to allocate it, and where to plant trees—for both the near and slightly distant future.

You can follow Lisa Dilling on Twitter at @LisaD144, and the Western Water Assessment program at University of Colorado here: @WWAnews or visit their website at https://wwa.colorado.edu/

https://youtu.be/m5Vk8mlBsEE?si=aRza-e3MDspPDM-I

#Episode #Season1 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #ClimateCommunication #UniversityOfColorado #WesternWaterAssessment #agriculture

Season 1 Episode 8: Building Climate Resilience in the Western US, with Prof. Lisa Dilling

In this episode, we’re talking to Professor Lisa Dilling, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, about building networks of people through which information about regional climate predictions can flow to people and information about the needs, predicaments, and questions of people can flow to climate researchers.

As the changing climate increasingly disrupts our ways of life, we have three choices: do nothing, attempt to stop or even reverse climate change, and/or figure out how to withstand it. Option one is a terrible idea and the ship has (mostly) sailed on option two. But option three is how we learn to live—and maybe even thrive—in our changing world. Part of this is figuring out how to convey the information that climate researchers have gathered to the people—like farmers, water managers, and urban planners—who need to make decisions now—about things like what crops to plant, where to get water for everyone and how to allocate it, and where to plant trees—for both the near and slightly distant future.

You can follow Lisa Dilling on Twitter at @LisaD144, and the Western Water Assessment program at University of Colorado here: @WWAnews or visit their website at https://wwa.colorado.edu/

https://youtu.be/m5Vk8mlBsEE?si=aRza-e3MDspPDM-I

#Episode #Season1 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #ClimateCommunication #UniversityOfColorado #WesternWaterAssessment #agriculture

Season 1 Episode 8: Building Climate Resilience in the Western US, with Prof. Lisa Dilling

In this episode, we’re talking to Professor Lisa Dilling, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, about building networks of people through which information about regional climate predictions can flow to people and information about the needs, predicaments, and questions of people can flow to climate researchers.

As the changing climate increasingly disrupts our ways of life, we have three choices: do nothing, attempt to stop or even reverse climate change, and/or figure out how to withstand it. Option one is a terrible idea and the ship has (mostly) sailed on option two. But option three is how we learn to live—and maybe even thrive—in our changing world. Part of this is figuring out how to convey the information that climate researchers have gathered to the people—like farmers, water managers, and urban planners—who need to make decisions now—about things like what crops to plant, where to get water for everyone and how to allocate it, and where to plant trees—for both the near and slightly distant future.

You can follow Lisa Dilling on Twitter at @LisaD144, and the Western Water Assessment program at University of Colorado here: @WWAnews or visit their website at https://wwa.colorado.edu/

https://youtu.be/m5Vk8mlBsEE?si=aRza-e3MDspPDM-I

#Episode #Season1 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #ClimateCommunication #UniversityOfColorado #WesternWaterAssessment #agriculture

Season 1 Episode 8: Building Climate Resilience in the Western US, with Prof. Lisa Dilling

In this episode, we’re talking to Professor Lisa Dilling, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, about building networks of people through which information about regional climate predictions can flow to people and information about the needs, predicaments, and questions of people can flow to climate researchers.

As the changing climate increasingly disrupts our ways of life, we have three choices: do nothing, attempt to stop or even reverse climate change, and/or figure out how to withstand it. Option one is a terrible idea and the ship has (mostly) sailed on option two. But option three is how we learn to live—and maybe even thrive—in our changing world. Part of this is figuring out how to convey the information that climate researchers have gathered to the people—like farmers, water managers, and urban planners—who need to make decisions now—about things like what crops to plant, where to get water for everyone and how to allocate it, and where to plant trees—for both the near and slightly distant future.

You can follow Lisa Dilling on Twitter at @LisaD144, and the Western Water Assessment program at University of Colorado here: @WWAnews or visit their website at https://wwa.colorado.edu/

https://youtu.be/m5Vk8mlBsEE?si=aRza-e3MDspPDM-I

#Episode #Season1 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #ClimateCommunication #UniversityOfColorado #WesternWaterAssessment #agriculture