Climate Signals: A Digital Science Platform for Engaging the Public on Climate Change through Individual Events
Abstract
Communicating with most audiences, including policy makers and the general public, requires engagement in terms of their direct personal interest. While research into climate change impacts often focuses on long-term trends with a global or regional scope, the general public engages the topic of climate change through the lens of individual events such as heat waves, floods and wildfires.
Climate Signals is a science platform that surfaces the immediate threat of climate change. Drawing from the best available science, the website catalogues and maps the impacts of climate change and illustrates the chain of connections between greenhouse gas emissions, climate trends, and the impacts we see every day. Practitioner outreach in climate science communications over the last several years has yielded a base of lessons that serve as best practice principles for communicating climate change impacts. Recent experience with Climate Signals furthers this base of communication knowledge.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMPA22C..06C
- Keywords:
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- 0815 Informal education;
- EDUCATIONDE: 4334 Disaster risk communication;
- NATURAL HAZARDSDE: 6349 General or miscellaneous;
- POLICY SCIENCESDE: 6699 General or miscellaneous;
- PUBLIC ISSUES