The general public have not yet heard of geoengineering or climate engineering. It is the grandest of all ideas for if all other ideas for solutions to climate change fail – ideas for a deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate system with the aim of reducing global warming by reversing or slowing it.
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Illustration on the false prophets of climate change by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
If you read this you could be better-liked, better looking, famous, wealthy, a winner in life. I envy communication people working in the traditional marketing and PR industries. They don’t have to tell the truth.
In science communication we tell the truth as we understand it, based on what we currently know from a rigorous and objective evidence base. As a result, few people welcome our messages, and this is why climate change is one of the most scrutinized areas of public policy science.
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One of the more unpleasant bits of my job as a science communicator is reading the climate change reporting of the Mail on Sunday in stories such as ‘Climate summit confirms global temperature stopped rising’ and ‘World’s top scientists confess global warming a quarter of what we thought’ , (the original headline was ‘is HALF’). The same opinion was further circulated in the The Telegraph, viewpoints written by people even more unqualified than me for interpreting climate data.
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The science of climate change communication 