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Since the climate crisis affects so many aspects of our lives and environments, we have many angles to choose from when addressing it. Depending on that, we might catch someone's attention, even if they think that they don't care.

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Opportunities for communicating my research outside the technosphere

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Opportunities for communicating my research outside the technosphere

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I would like to explore more opportunities to communicate my research and engage with the public in different contexts. I like presentations and workshops and I would like to have the opportunity to work with local stakeholders (e.g. the city council, NGOs, art centres, schools, etc) in order to increase awareness of climate change but also to listen to what people have to say about their experience of it. I believe that research dissemination in the form of public events should seek to be reciprocal and to establish channels of communication between the public and the Academy.

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Communicating my research to other academics/scholars is also a significant challenge. It seems that many academics are invested in the gate-keeping of their disciplines and communicating with them about the importance of interdisciplinary research is quite difficult, simply because interdisciplinary research can never be good enough by the standards of each separate discipline. Being able to talk about the value of one's research both inside and outside academia is very difficult and I find myself lacking the right vocabulary in order to pitch my ideas at the right level.

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Challenges- reaching out to climate deniers

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Challenges- reaching out to climate deniers

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I think that it might be relatively easier to communicate my research outputs and concerns to people who are already worried about climate change being the most pressing challenge of our times. However, for me, what seems crucial is to reach out to individuals and groups of the public that are not convinced about how big a threat climate change is. It seems to me that this has become even more obvious since the beginning of the pandemic when a very wide range of pandemic denial narratives cropeed out. Many of them were entwined with ideas and perceptions about nature, which were very close to eco-fascism (e.g. that humans are the virus and that nature is better off without the human species). How do we reach out to people who foster such ideas, values and worldviews?

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What are the OPPORTUNITIES of communicating your climate science research?

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What are the OPPORTUNITIES of communicating your climate science research?

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If you can find the right wording or examples to explain your research topic to non-academics, people become very easily invested and interested in climate science.

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Saying "We're passing the climate tipping point and need to enact drastic change" often elicits such responses as "Corporations are unlikely to change and we're all doomed". It's difficult to communicate that climate change is an immediate problem, without implying that it's too late (causing people to give up and become apathetic), or implying that there's still time (causing people to relax and again become apathetic). How do also you navigate doom and gloom responses from the public?

Finding this balance is perhaps made even more significant with such high stakes - since clarifying the urgency of climate actions can result in certain people tending towards extremism (e.g. ecoterrorism or, on the opposite extreme, suicide). (Though of course, climate researchers are in no way responsible for those people's choices or actions)

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Opportunity - Educating and inspiring others

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Opportunity - Educating and inspiring others

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I love talking about climate change, particularly to those who are unsure or have lots of questions. As climate researchers ourselves, we have great opportunities to educate and inspire positive action!

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Opportunity - inspiring others and expanding my research

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Opportunity - inspiring others and expanding my research

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Being able to talk about our research makes it more accessible to others which could inspire or encourage them to do the same. If my work is picked up by other climate researchers there may be the opportunity to collaborate or expand on what I am doing for a wider benefit.

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What CHALLENGES do you face when communicating your climate science research?

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What CHALLENGES do you face when communicating your climate science research?

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I would like to share more of my own findings and those of others (e.g. on Twitter), but I worry about whether I am communicating it properly and the implications of me not doing so.

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You can look at climate change from so many different angles, I find this interdisciplinary nature of work really rewarding and interesting.

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Because climate change is researched by such a wide community and when broadcasting to all (e.g. on twitter) I worry that I am saying the complete wrong thing and have all of my facts wrong! I also worry that if I am trying to post a tweet for example where I have limited characters then I will miss out important information and again end up saying the wrong thing.

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Since climate change is such a hot topic, nearly everyone already has preconcieved ideas and stances on climate change adaptation that will influence their understanding of your research.