What would I advise climate science communicators?
(guest post by Dan Kahan) This is what I was asked by a thoughtful person who is assisting climate-science communicators to develop strategies for helping the public to recognize the best available...
View ArticleClimate Change through the Eyes of a Californian Farmer
This guest post is by Dr. Ryan Haden and Ph.D. candidate Meredith Niles at the University of California Davis. Their recent study in the journal PLoS ONE is the first to use an approach called...
View ArticleCOIN are recruiting a new Operations Manager
COIN are looking for an Operations Manager to ensure the day-to-day operations of this dynamic charity run smoothly. Find out more: www.coinet.org.uk £28,000 to £30,000 pro rata for 2.5 days/week...
View ArticleIs there a corporate ‘common cause’?
This was originally published by the Guardian Sustainable Business 19/02/13 Sometimes, simple ideas have far-reaching implications, and the Common Cause report – which created ripples throughout the...
View ArticleFlooding catalyses climate concern in Wales
First published by the Guardian 04.03.13 Against a backdrop of lukewarm sentiment about environmental issues globally, levels of concern about climate change in Wales are at their highest for many...
View ArticleThe ‘art’ of climate change communication
This article was originally published by Guardian Sustainable Business 18.03.13. At the end of the original piece I have added links to a series of suggestions left by comments on the Guardian piece,...
View ArticleTime to ask the public: Why 2 degrees?
This guest post is from Dr Chris Shaw, a visiting Research Fellow at Sussex University. Chris asks why, given the importance of the issue, has there never really been a public debate about the ‘two...
View ArticleClimate change: bad for our health
In this blog post first published by the Guardian Sustainable Business on 23.04.13, Adam Corner argues that framing climate change as a public health risk may be a way of pushing climate change into...
View ArticleIt’s (not just) the environment stupid!
This guest post by Dr Rachel Howell of Aberystwyth University was originally published at Values & Frames. People who cut their carbon footprint because they’re worried about climate change are...
View ArticleCould UKIP’s rise undo the climate change consensus?
The surge of support for UKIP at the local council elections this month suggests Britain, or at least some of it, is experiencing a lurch to the right. The party’s rag-bag of populist policies,...
View ArticleA new conversation with the centre-right about climate change
On Thursday 13th June COIN will launch our new report, ‘A new conversation with the centre-right about climate change’, hosted by Policy Exchange, at the Ideas Space, Westminster. Funded by the BRASS...
View ArticleAddicted to carbon?
The idea that society is hooked on fossil fuels – addicted to the carbon compounds that underwrite everything from the plastic in our toothbrushes to the petrol in our cars – is nothing new. But a new...
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Warning: may cause climate change
This guest post is from Robert Shirkey, lawyer and executive director of Our Horizon, a not-for-profit climate change organization based in Toronto, Canada. He describes how Our Horizon’s campaign for...
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A new conversation with the centre-right about climate change
The Climate Outreach & Information Network’s latest report, ‘A new conversation with the centre-right about climate change’, has been published and you can download it here: COIN – A new...
View ArticleNew climate change communication videos
Last month saw a major conference in Colorado, Boulder (US), focused entirely on the topic of climate change communication. Videos from the event are now available online, including a couple that we’ve...
View ArticleMorality is missing from debates about behaviour change
Every now and again, it’s good to remind yourself of the scale of the challenge posed by climate change. Leaving aside the small matter of the rest of the world, the UK has committed to reducing its...
View ArticleScientists, sceptics, and advocates
There’s been a series of thought-provoking blogs on the Guardian website this week, focusing on the intertwined issues of science, scepticism and advocacy within climate change. First, on Tuesday,...
View ArticleFrackers: Ignore public values at your peril
Certain truisms have wormed their way into the national discourse of how people think about energy. We’re told that no-one wants a wind turbine in their back yard. It’s common knowledge that going...
View ArticleCommunicating climate change by celebrating nature
In this guest post, Ralph Underhill, from the Public Interest Research Centre, explains why their new report ‘Common Cause for Nature‘ offers one way of bringing the meaning of climate change home. Why...
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Will floods & heatwaves convince people to care about climate change?
This is a re-post of a blog by Leo Barasi – you can find the original at his blog Noise of the Crowd. I’ve been arguing for a while that there’s been too little done to explain to the British public...
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