About this issue
For decades, climate scientists have been producing data demonstrating that climate change is a real, urgent threat to humanity. Yet this has not translated into political action—or even widespread public concern—at the scale needed to tackle the problem in time. Has climate science failed us? This volume tackles the question of what role—if any—science can play in the future of the climate-change debate. Should science be centered when communicating about climate risks on the ground? Who is able to access and use the knowledge science produces, and to what ends? How does science relate to other ways of knowing the world around us? The pieces in this volume, predominantly by emerging scholars, approach these questions from different angles to ask how we know and experience the climate and, ultimately, how we can transform this knowledge into action.
How to cite: Kleemann, Katrin, and Jeroen Oomen, eds. “Communicating the Climate: From Knowing Change to Changing Knowledge,” RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 4. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8822.
Content
- Prologue
- Preface by Katrin Kleemann and Jeroen Oomen
- Decentering Science in Climate Communication by Lynda Walsh
- A Level Playing Field, or the Hope for Science as a Common Ground by Jeroen Oomen
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Knowing Weather and Climate - Telling Stories of a Changed Climate:The Laki Fissure Eruption and the Interdisciplinarity of Climate History by Katrin Kleemann
- Rescuing Climate Data as a Scientific and Communication Bridge by Linden Ashcroft
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Negotiating Knowledge - Lessons from the Last Continent: Science, Emotion, and the Relevance of History by Emma Shortis
- Between Science and the Expertise of the Elders by Saskia Brill
- Promoting Health, Combating Climate Change: How the Promotores de Salud Network in the US-Mexico Borderlands is Building Climate Resilience by Emilie Schur Petri
- Remembering Nature in Climate Change: Re-thinking Climate Science and Climate Communication through Critical Theory by Dorothea Born
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From Knowing to Action - Experiencing Tomorrow: The Importance of Immersive Arts for Climate Science Communication by Vera Karina Gebhardt Fearns
- Science in Fiction: A Brief Look at the Potential of Communicating Climate Change through the Novel by Eline D. Tabak
- Let’s Say It in Their Own Words by Grit Martinez
