Category Archives: Communication

by Judith Curry

My very best wishes to you and your families for the winter holidays, whichever one you might celebrate.  Some climate funnies for the season:

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Received via email from Greg Craven, posted in entirety:

Mea Mega Culpa: an Open Letter from Greg Craven re: Dec. 15^th speech at AGU.

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Judith Curry

I recently read Ian McEwan’s book Solar, which motivated me to ponder putting together a thread on scientists in fiction.   The classics in this genre, e.g. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Strangelove, represent scientists as evil geniuses unrestrained by ethics.  Contemporary books in the genre provide more complex images of scientists.

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Michael Larkin has done an excellent job of synthesis and analysis of the some of the more cogent points made on the previous threads.   The text of Michael’s comments are provided below:

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by Judith Curry

The previous thread has gotten long, and has wandered off topic.  Lets focus the discussion on this thread on some of the interesting ideas that are being discussed on the previous thread, including the following:

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by Judith Curry

The Wikipedia defines indoctrination as:

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by Judith Curry

The anniversary of Climategate has engendered much reflection on the climate change issue, specifically with regard to communicating and engaging with the public.

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by Judith Curry

There is much angst in the climate community over effective public communication of climate science.  Strategies such as framing, messaging and narrative are receiving increasing attention by the climate establishment.  The current ideas seem to be focused on “climate distruption” and framing the problem in terms of human health impacts. I can only hope that an uncertainty frame is ascendant.

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by Judith Curry

Communicating climate science to the public is a substantial challenge, owing to the complexity of the subject, its potential socioeconomic consequences, and the politicization of the issue.

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by Judith Curry

Over the last few months, I’ve received copies of several books on the topic of climate:

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