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If you choose to follow any links to the abstracts and/or complete text of articles, books, and documents listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Feature Items: Crispin Tickell Communicating Climate Change. (... a very short but interesting article that talks about the difficulties of communicating the appropriate urgency of global warming and climate change to the general public. The author states the science itself [of climate change] is not in doubt. Of course there are continuing uncertainties about the proportion of natural to human-driven change, but the existence of human-driven change is clear. The conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the main national academies of science [including that of the United States] represent a broad international consensus with little serious dissent. But, the author adds, the difficulty of communicating this information--climate change and its consequences--to the public is considerable. Asking people to make unwelcome changes now to avoid possible consequences in an uncertain future is a difficult proposition to sell to anyone. With a few honorable exceptions, politicians and economists do not calculate more than a few years ahead. There are also none so deaf as those who don't want to hear. The author concludes communicating the fact of climate change is a complex process involving political leadership, science, public pressure, and even perhaps a useful catastrophe or two to illuminate the issues. We should not forget the moral dimension: a sense of responsibility to future human generations and a respect for the totality of ecosystems. Other keywords and phrases -- Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, greenhouse effect, Kyoto Protocol, World Conference on Sustainable Development -- from the text of the article) Science Volume 297, Number 5582 (August 2, 2002): 737. How to find the above journals, magazines, and other publications? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions about any or all of the above? Please let me know. |
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