Overview

Why has outreach by scientists on climate change so far failed to have more of an impact in promoting actions commensurate with the problem? What can scientists do to better explain the implications of climate change? What new arrangements or other innovations are needed to ensure that good science is injected into public discourse and the policy process? Project Participants are addressing these and other issues to help generate strategies designed to ensure good science is injected into public discourse and the policy process.

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YPCC News & Events

40 experts gathered from around the country on Nov 9, 2006 to discuss how to convey the most important findings of climate change science to the public. Read Bill Blakemore’s article about the YPCC convened meeting on the ABC News website.

List of Participants:

Daniel Abbasi, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Heidi Arthur, The Ad Council
James Baker, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO
Frances Beinecke, Natural Resources Defense Council
Bill Blakemore, ABC News
David Blockstein, National Council for Science & the Environment
Anthony Broccoli, Rutgers University
James Buizer, University of Arizona
William Chameides, Environmental Defense
Marian Chertow, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Joel Cohen, University of Florida
Roger Cohn, Mother Jones
Robert Corel, American Meteorological Society
Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel
Erica Dawson, Yale School of Management
David Downie, Columbia University
Hunt Durey
John Ehrmann, Meridian Institute
Daniel Esty, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
Jesse Fink, Marshall Street Management
Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists
Noha Gaber, US Environmental Protection Agency
Christopher Galvin, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Susan Hassol, Independent Climate Science Communicator
Martin Kaplan, V.Kann Rasmussen Foundation
Stephen Kellert, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Jon Krosnick, Stanford University
Eugene Linden, Writer
Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University
Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan
Katie Mandes, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University
Stephen Pacala, Princeton University
Mark Pagani, Yale University
Richard Petty, Ohio State University
Jonathan Rose, Rose Companies
William Schlesinger, Duke University
Richard Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Gus Speth, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Vaughan Turekian, American Association for the Advancement of Science
George Woodwell, Woods Hole Research Center
Nancy Youman, Open Society Institute

Presentations & Papers:

A Bridging Institution - Concept, Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State, ppt

How Wide is the Science - Action Gap? Steve Pacala, Princeton, ppt

Bridging the Gap: Climate, Science & Action, Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan, ppt

Intensity spikes in concern on global warming, Jon Krosnick, Stanford, pdf

The origins and consequences of democratic citizens policy agenda, Jon Krosnick, Stanford, pdf