Communicating Climate Change

Now in video are selected excerpts from my interview with Dr. Moser, the subject of an earlier podcast. Effectively Communicating Climate Change highlights key insights for those who are communicating climate science (regardless of their professional title). To illustrate her points, segments show Al Gore and Martin Luther King. This 11-minute video is organized differently [...]

Decision Making about Climate Change distills into a visual eight minutes the audio podcast with Dr. Leiserowitz presented earlier. Among topics the director of the Yale Project on Climate Change discusses: How do we make decisions about risks? How do reason and emotion influence our decision making? video player Transcript

This episode presents a different perspective, from a climate communication practitioner, photojournalist Gary Braasch. He discusses his new book, Earth Under Fire, highlighting his reasons for telling the climate story as he has and offering some insights into the reception that the book’s been receiving. Passionate and committed, Braasch is definitely one of those “out [...]

Journalists covering climate or topics related to this podcast are invited to contact the producer for referrals to the podcast interviewees who have agreed to be contacted by journalists. My email: joe.cone@oregonstate.edu

In a wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Leiserowitz discusses insights from the study of public risk perceptions and underscores for communicators the importance of appreciating that decision-making about risk involves more than a rational process. People’s perceptions are also influenced by emotions, images, values, and experiences which they feel to be related. And he highlights just how [...]