Climate Change: The Move to Action (AOSS 480 // NRE 480) Richard B. Rood Cell: 301-526-8572 2525 Space Research Building (North Campus) rbrood@umich.edu http://aoss.engin.umich.edu/people/rbrood Winter 2012 February 23, 2012

Class News Ctools site: AOSS_SNRE_480_001_W12 2008 and 2010 Class On Line: http://climateknowledge.org/classes/index.php/Climate_Change:_The_Move_to_Action

The Current Climate (Released Monthly) Climate Monitoring at National Climatic Data Center. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html State of the Climate: Global

Project Timelines and Some Guidance News Questions Today Communication Redux Project Timelines and Some Guidance glisaclimate.org News Questions

Follow up: Extremes and Communication Extremes offer an opportunity for communication Grab people’s attention Costly – extreme events have been and will be responsible for great cost Draw a lot of people into science classes Extremes challenge the weather-climate, natural variability interface Does an event have to be the most extreme to be attributed to climate change?

Follow up: Extremes and Communication Extremes are important to Regional use of climate information Local use of climate information Extremes relevant to all of this years projects.

Follow up: Extremes and Communication Some words I wrote down from lecture and discussion Dumbing down Explain to your mother Granularity of the audience Broadcast communication Smoking gun of climate change Role of fear Effectiveness of lectures

Currently a topic of great interest to the climate community. Communication Currently a topic of great interest to the climate community. Motivations Respond to the denial in political argument Educate the public Convince the electorate Responsibility of tax-supported research Make science relevant to society

Some prominent and recent efforts Climate Science Rapid Response Team Climate Communication Climate Central NOAA: Climate.gov CAMEL Climate on Steroids

Multitude of Sources Government Agencies Museums Non-governmental Organizations / Professional Organizations Universities / Educational Organizations Magazines / News Organization Corporations Weather Web Sites Blogs – of every flavor

Use of climate information Research on the use of climate knowledge states that for successful projects, for example: Co-development / Co-generation Trust Narratives Scale Spatial Temporal Lemos and Morehouse, 2005

Projects Broad subjects and teams defined Meeting 1 with Rood Now to early March: Project vision and goals Meeting 2 with Rood Mid to late March: Progress report, refinement of goals if needed Class review Short, informal presentation, external review and possible coordination Oral Presentation: April 10 and 12 Final written report: April 25

Project Teams Education / Denial Allison Caine Nayiri Haroutunian Elizabeth McBride Michelle Reicher

Project Teams Regional Emily Basham Catherine Kent Sarah Schwimmer James Toth Nicholas Fantin

Project Teams City Jian Wei Ang Erin Dagg Caroline Kinstle Heather Lucier

Project Teams University Nathan Hamet Adam Schneider Jillian Talaski Victor Vardan

Goal to facilitate problem solving glisaclimate.org Goal to facilitate problem solving Based on class experience Support narratives Build templates for problem solving

Peter Gleick and Heartland News for Discussion Peter Gleick and Heartland Peter Gleick: Huffington Post DeSmogBlog: The documents Thinkprogress Rick Santorum and Climate Change Climate change and religion Climate scientists attacked Michael Mann: The Atlantic Physics Today