scholarly journals Don’t @ Me: What Happened When Climate Skeptics Misused My Work

Eos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Zeppetello
Keyword(s):  
Climate Science ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Climate Research

A student who saw his climate research misrepresented in online forums shares the experience, as well as lessons learned and recommendations for how to counter efforts to distort climate science.

Making behavioral science integral to climate science and action

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARUCH FISCHHOFF
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Climate Research ◽  
Quantitative Estimates

Abstract The behavioral sciences were there at the beginning of the systematic study of climate change. However, in the ensuing quarter century, they largely faded from view, during which time public discourse and policy evolved without them. That disengagement and the recent reengagement suggest lessons for the future role of the behavioral sciences in climate science and policy. Looking forward, the greatest promise lies in projects that make behavioral science integral to climate science by: (1) translating behavioral results into the quantitative estimates that climate analyses need; (2) making climate research more relevant to climate-related decisions; and (3) treating the analytical process as a behavioral enterprise, potentially subject to imperfection and improvement. Such collaborations could afford the behavioral sciences more central roles in setting climate-related policies, as well as implementing them. They require, and may motivate, changes in academic priorities.

Post-Normal Practices Between Regional Climate Services and Local Knowledge

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Krauss ◽  
Hans von Storch
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Short History ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Climate Research ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Recent surveys show that the communication about climate change between science and the public is severely disturbed. In this article we discuss this problem in focusing on both regional climate services and other, local forms of knowledge. The authors suggest that climate science and its public services have to critically revise their own practices and to acknowledge other forms of knowledge about climate as constitutive. Based on approaches from geography and anthropology, the article first discusses the short history and "normal practices" of regional climate services and how they approach the public. Outlining the potentials and constraints of this concept, the article focuses on the friction, on "its openness to change as it rubs up against society" (Hulme 2007). The focus then shifts to local knowledge systems and how they deal with the challenges of a changing climate. In addition to the "extended peer review" as a new option for climate research in a post-normal setup, the authors discuss the possibility of an "extended knowledge basis," that is, the integration of different forms of climate knowledge with a special focus on regional populations.

scholarly journals Scientists Denounce Pending Australian Climate Science Cuts

Eos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puneet Kollipara
Keyword(s):  
Data Gathering ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Climate Research ◽  
Australian Climate ◽  
Climate Studies ◽  
Data Gathering And Analysis

The recently unveiled planned shift from basic climate research toward responses to a transformed climate could cost research jobs, hamper climate studies, and limit data gathering and analysis.

scholarly journals Can Online Forums Be Designed to Empower Local Communities?

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-174
Author(s):  
Kerill Dunne
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
The Uk

There has been a growing concern regarding political disengagement among citizens within western representative democracies. This concern has brought about calls for local communities to be empowered by giving citizens more control over local decision making. The objective of this paper is to examine if local political online forums can be built to empower local communities. That is to say, this paper will test if the E-Democracy.org’s Local Issues Forum Guidebook recommendations (A to do list for building successful online forums) actually work and produce forums which facilitate citizens to have a greater say on local decision making and thus, induce empowerment. In order to test these recommendations a two-pronged methodological approach was taken. Firstly, using these recommendations an online forum was constructed in-conjunction with a local authority within the UK. Secondly, the recommendations were tested again except in this second approach a sample of online forums from around the world was examined. This paper argues that the E-Democracy.org’s recommendations do not always produce forums which empower local communities - Based on lessons learned from both experiments new guidelines are provided.

scholarly journals Conceptualization and Evaluation of a School Project on Climate Science in the Context of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mareike Schauss ◽  
Sandra Sprenger
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Epistemological Beliefs ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Climate Research ◽  
School Project ◽  
Understanding Of Science

Anchored in the thirteenth of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), climate change is one of the key content areas in education for sustainable development. This evaluation study describes a school project that introduces students to scientific work and, more specifically, to scientific research methods in climate research. Using a pre-post design, the evaluation uses a scale measuring epistemological beliefs, as well as two other scales addressing the relevance of climate change in society and career prospects in the field of climate research. The quantitative questionnaire data indicate an increase in future career aspirations in the field of climate research. The qualitative interview data reveal positive changes in the understanding of science and show that an understanding of the nature of science can be promoted.

scholarly journals Climate Science Needs to Take Risk Assessment Much More Seriously

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (9) ◽  
pp. 1637-1642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowan T. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Climate Modeling ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Climate Research ◽  
Group I ◽  
Widespread View

AbstractFor decision-makers, climate change is a problem in risk assessment and risk management. It is, therefore, surprising that the needs and lessons of risk assessment have not featured more centrally in the consideration of priorities for physical climate science research, or in the Working Group I contributions to the major assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This article considers the reasons, which include a widespread view that the job of physical climate science is to provide predictions and projections—with a focus on likelihood rather than risk—and that risk assessment is a job for others. This view, it is argued, is incorrect. There is an urgent need for physical climate science to take the needs of risk assessment much more seriously. The challenge of meeting this need has important implications for priorities in climate research, climate modeling, and climate assessments.

scholarly journals Co-producing “Post-normal” Climate Knowledge with Communities in Northeast Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bremer ◽  
M. Stiller-Reeve ◽  
A. Blanchard ◽  
N. Mamnun ◽  
Z. Naznin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Science ◽  
Science Inquiry ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Normal Science ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Climate Research ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
Climate Knowledge ◽  
Production Research ◽  
Concepts Of Knowledge

Abstract Concepts of knowledge “co-production” are increasingly encouraged in climate research, including as an extended mode of climate science inquiry. So-called “post-normal” science offers opportunities to advance this branch of co-production research with theory and methods. However, the literature lacks material of how to “do” climate knowledge co-production as extended science, and particularly as post-normal science. This paper presents an account of post-normal science theory and how it guided the TRACKS (Transforming Climate Knowledge with and for Society) project’s research practice, co-producing climate knowledge with communities in northeast Bangladesh. Key principles of post-normal science are described and explanations given of how they were translated into the research process, and specifically into workshops. The paper therefore provides insights for scholars and practitioners on one form of knowledge co-production, and thus contributes to this growing scholarship.

scholarly journals Trials, Errors, and Improvements in Coproduction of Climate Services

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (8) ◽  
pp. 1419-1428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik W. Kolstad ◽  
Oda N. Sofienlund ◽  
Hanna Kvamsås ◽  
Mathew A. Stiller-Reeve ◽  
Simon Neby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Science ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Climate Information ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Service Projects ◽  
Climate Service

AbstractClimate change yields both challenges and opportunities. In both cases, costly adaptations and transformations are necessary and desirable, and these must be based on realistic and relevant climate information. However, it is often difficult for climate scientists to communicate this information to decision-makers and stakeholders, and it can be equally difficult for such actors to interpret and put the information to use. In this essay, we discuss experiences and present recommendations for scientists producing climate services. The basis is our work in several climate service projects. One of them aimed to provide local-scale climate data for municipalities in western Norway and to explore how the data were interpreted and implemented. The project was first based solely on climate science expertise, and the participants did not have sufficient competence on coproduction and knowledge about the regulatory and political landscape in which municipalities operate. Initially, we also subscribed to an outdated idea of climate services, where knowledge providers (climate scientists) “deliver” their information to knowledge users (e.g., municipal planners). Increasingly, as stressed in the literature on coproduction of knowledge, we learned that climate service should be an iterative process where actionable information is coproduced through two-way dialogue. On the basis of these and other lessons learned the hard way, we provide a set of concrete recommendations on how to embed the idea of coproduction from the preproposal stage to beyond the end of climate service projects.

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