There is nothing at all new about fake news. Ten years ago November 2009 was the politically motivated theft of email from UEA’s Climatic Research Unit with cherry-picked sentences published, trying to discredit global warming data. This is a November 2019 interview with the local Eastern Daily Press newspaper “I think it sped up the whole process of climate science being believed and seen to be valuable to society.”
Did your New Year Resolutions include something new to continue to make a professional difference to the world? Publish more? Flyless? Complete your PhD? Can I suggest one more professional pledge, that you engage the public more? You have something exciting and important to say to the world. You really do. I know this because I’ve been helping researchers communicate for nearly 20 years.
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The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of limiting climate change to two degrees and pursuing efforts to limit climate change to 1.5 degrees. Most emissions scenarios that limit climate change to below two degrees consider that technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere will be available, acceptable, and affordable in the coming decades, but is this realistic?
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The science of climate change communication 