Is local always better for climate communication?
This guest post is by Michelle McCauley and Jonas Schoenefeld, co-authors of a new paper exploring the link between communication strategies which ‘localise’ climate change and people’s...
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The Uncertainty Handbook
Have you ever struggled with the communication of climate change uncertainties? Are you frustrated by climate sceptics using uncertainty – inherent in any area of complex science – as a justification...
View ArticleWhen I say ‘climate change’, you say…?
In this guest post, Dr Endre Tvinnereim of the Uni Research Rokkan Centre and Dr Kjersti Fløttum of the University of Bergen, Norway, shed new light on what people instinctively associate with the...
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The Pope and partisan polarisation
Photo: Michael Swan, Creative Commons CC BY-ND 2.0 This week, the Head of the Catholic Church did something that legions of green activists routinely struggle to do: focus global media attention on...
View ArticleEco-Angry Birds? When climate change & pop culture collide
In any given 24-hour period, the average urban commuter is subjected to hundreds of corporate advertisements. By contrast, it’s easy to make it through the day without hearing a mention of climate...
View ArticleThe Coming Climate Disruptions: Are You Hopeful?
This a guest post by Per Espen Stoknes. A psychologist, economist and entrepreneur, he has cofounded clean-energy companies and spearheads the BI Norwegian Business School’s executive program on green...
View ArticleBypass the hang-ups with the ‘preparation frame’
With more and more extreme weather events being linked to climate change, the climate debate is shifting from ‘whether’ it is happening to ‘how’ it is happening. This is a guest blog by Max Leighton,...
View ArticleLove in a changing climate
This guest post is by Robin Webster, previously of Friends of the Earth and Carbon Brief. Robin asks what the role of ‘love’ in climate change campaigning is, and whether we need to get beyond the...
View Article“A clean, green science machine”
There is a certain irony that the scientific community has one of the highest carbon footprints. This is mainly down to travel, most notably aviation. A new paper explores some alternatives to the...
View ArticleFrom financial to ‘cultural’ divestment
It’s easy to see why the fossil fuel ‘divestment’ campaign has grown so quickly. Hastening the demise of the fossil fuel industry by removing its financial life-support machine has an undeniable and...
View ArticlePersonal climate stories
How is climate change affecting people around the world right now? Ask a scientist this question, and they will tell you that it is impossible to attribute any one weather event conclusively to climate...
View ArticleAlternating climate impacts: stories about security?
Right from the start, climate change communicators were faced with a challenge. ‘Global Warming’ may be a scientifically-accurate description of what is happening at a planetary scale, but no one lives...
View ArticleThe social consensus on flooding and climate change
Exactly one year ago, fierce winter weather was causing havoc across the UK. Large parts of the Somerset Levels were submerged, Wales had been battered by coastal storms, residents in the Thames...
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Science won’t win over the climate change sceptics — we need stories
You don’t have to be a climate policy expert to be inspired by stories. People respond better to climate change solutions than a bitter argument about its causes. Photograph: incamerastock/Alamy This...
View ArticleWill geoengineering make people give up cutting their carbon footprint?
Wealthier people are more susceptible to the trap of saying they won’t take action on emissions when they know engineering the planet’s climate is a possibility. If you thought there was a machine that...
View ArticleHow climate change research undermines trust in everyday life
Chloe Lucas, Peat Leith and Aidan Davison Chloe Lucas is a PhD candidate, Peat Leith is a Research Fellow and Aidan Davison is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania We all want to trust and...
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What sort of story is climate change? And how should it be told?
By Kate Monson Theatre land’s latest offering to the climate change conversation started at the Royal Court last week. Created by Katie Mitchell, of Ten Billion fame, and written in collaboration with...
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Top climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe on climate change communication
This is a guest blog by Kirk Englehardt, Director of Research Communication and Marketing for the Georgia Institute of Technology. He blogs about strategic communication & #scicomm on LinkedIn and...
View ArticleHow social psychology can help us understand – and even alter – people’s...
Based on the European Journal of Social Pscyhology’s August Special Issue on the subject, guest blogger Kelly Fielding from Queensland University looks at the role social psychology can play in...
View ArticleWhy its good to laugh at climate change
Did you hear the one about the climate policy analyst? Or the polar bear who walked into a bar? Climate change is not generally considered a source of amusement: in terms of comedic material, the...
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