Humour and creativity to communicate climate change
Mar 04, 2019
Maxwell Boykoff discusses the keys to innovative and effective scientific communication with his lecture at the La Nau Cultural Centre on 28 February.
Etiqueta: climate change
Maxwell Boykoff opens the series «The great challenges of science» with a lecture on climate change
Feb 20, 2019
When, where, why and under what conditions is climate change communicated? On 28 February at 19:00, Maxwell Boykoff will deliver a lecture at the La Nau Cultural Centre devoted to creativity and climate change communication.
Living with climate change
Oct 24, 2017
Journalist Bievenido León comments on the monograph Living with climate change, published on spring 2015, and dedicated to the cultural challenges proposed by this global change.
The neuroscience of rationality
Sep 28, 2017
We live in an age of contradictions. It might well be the age we land on Mars, rule over our own DNA, or fuse two atoms to recreate a star. Alas, it is also the age of Trump, climate change denial, or the spending of millions of euros on pseudociences such as homeopathy.
Communicating climate change
Apr 12, 2016
In early February, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) organised a meeting in Oslo with the goal of improving the effectiveness and impact of their communication actions. During 9 and 10 February, this organism gathered around fifty experts from the communication, politics, business and
Consensus and contrarianism on climate change
May 21, 2015
Against a contrasting backdrop of consensus on key issues on climate science, a heterogeneous group dubbed climate «skeptics», «contrarians», «deniers» have significantly shaped contemporary discussions of climate science, politics and policy in the public sphere. This essay focuses on the USA context, and explores some of the intertwined social, political and economic factors, as well as cultural and psychological characteristics that have together influenced public attitudes.
Disaster, uncertainty, opportunity or risk?
May 21, 2015
Green taxes, quotas and equality
May 21, 2015
The need for green fiscal reform is urgent in the face of climate change. Some oppose it, however, arguing that such reforms disproportionately burden poorer individuals whose emissions are far smaller than those of wealthier individuals.
Education in times of climate change
May 21, 2015
Everything seems to point to the fact that the education system is not yet succeeding in conveying the characteristic features of climate change to society.
Is there a hole in the ozone layer of your climate change?
May 21, 2015
Eight out of ten Spaniards think the hole in the ozone layer, caused by human actions, is the key physical cause of climate change. This belief, constructed from scientific elements (concepts, images, icons, discourse), is a product of popular culture. Science has never confirmed this relationship.
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