1. Climate Change: The Move to Action (AOSS 480 // NRE 480)
Richard B. Rood
Cell:
2525 Space Research Building (North Campus)
Winter 2012
February 23, 2012

2. Class News
Ctools site: AOSS_SNRE_480_001_W12
2008 and 2010 Class On Line:

3. The Current Climate (Released Monthly)
Climate Monitoring at National Climatic Data Center.
State of the Climate: Global

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

5. 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?

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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

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

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

16. Project Teams University Nathan Hamet Adam Schneider Jillian Talaski
Victor Vardan

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

18. 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