Our ongoing series “Communicating Climate Change” will often feature conversations with journalists and other communicators who face the challenge of writing on climate issues. This week: Climate Progress blogger and former Clinton administration renewable energy official Joe Romm.
The idealist in me really thought we would have gotten past this by now, but it seems that one of the biggest obstacles remaining in climate science messaging is the disconnect between weather and climate. Vocal deniers still trumpet about cold weather, and both sides of the issue correctly assert that individual weather events cannot be definitively attributed to global warming. A largely confused public could use some clarity on this.
A study about attitudes toward drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and persuasion sheds some light on how conservationists might influence public opinion in favor of climate change legislation.
Garnering considerable buzz in the world of politics as of late, the micro-blogging tool twitter is growing at an astonishing 1,382 percent—adding 7 million new accounts in February alone—and showing little sign of slowing down. Although politicians themselves may be relative newcomers in the world of communicating in 140-character or less, those who write [...]
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