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Climate Change: The Move to Action (AOSS 480 // NRE 480)

This class focuses on the current climate, climate monitoring, and the importance of communication in dealing with climate change. It explores the use of climate information and the challenges of communicating extremes. Prominent efforts and sources for climate information are discussed, as well as the projects and teams involved in the class.

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Climate Change: The Move to Action (AOSS 480 // NRE 480)

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

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

  18. 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

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