The article discusses the mischaracterization of scientists' efforts to communicate climate risk and highlights the challenges they face due to misinformation campaigns by polluters.
Last June, I came across a news piece claiming that scientists failed for decades to communicate to policymakers and the public. However, the story had mischaracterized a scientific review article about communicating unlikely but important climate consequences in the presence of deep uncertainty. But what bothered me most was the notion that scientists have failed to communicate climate risk .
Many of us have spent decades trying to do just that, despite a misinformation campaign by polluters to confuse the public and policymakers. Michael E. Mann, PhDIn addition to being the presidential distinguished professor and director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, Michael E. Mann is author of the new book"Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis." (PublicAffairs, 2023) and"The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet" (PublicAffairs, 2021
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