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The Climate Web 10/5/2026
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E - Communicating Risk
E - Risk Communication Graphics
Parents
E - Communicating Risk
Children
2013 Johnson_Climate Change Science 2013: Haiku
2016 A steady rise in climate communication publications
2016 Defense against identify change
2016 Defense against thinking or feeling the loss associated with CC
2016 Denial - defense against loss of one's social ties or standing
2016 Dissonance - defense against guilt, managing knowledge-action disconnect
2016 Psychological defense against thinking, feeling and knowing
2016 What images motivate action?
Accuracy in coverage of climate science
Articles written about climate change
Beach pollution
But it needs to be a dialogue, which has certain characteristics
Carbon Footprint
Cell phones
Climate communication has to address 4 factors
Climate Victory Poster 1
Climate Victory Poster 2
Climate Victory Poster 3
Climate Victory Poster 4
Consumerism
Death
Deforestation
Deforestation
Driving Sleepy
Extinction
Forests
Future
Global thermometer
Google trend - climate change adaptation vs. climate change mitigation
Graphic - How big a change are we talking about?
Graphic - The significance of language
How to win any global warming argument.
Hurricane Sandy impacts
I Can Change
Iceberg
If we could turn back the clock
Impact on the poor
Indifference
Individual Action
It's high time to act
Keep local impacts and hope in mind
Language recommendations for IPCC
New World Order
Novel climate communication resources 1
Novel climate communication resources 2
Ocean plastic
One could develop a "cumulative engagement index" (CEI)
Ozone hole
Penguins
Penguins
Polar bears
Positive proof of global warming (underwear)
Progress
Recommendation: Be cautious about conveying impacts
Relative humidity and sports
risk 37
Risk vs. sustainability
Save Energy
Seatbelts
Smoking
Speeding
Stop It
Stories are effective - need to be built around challenge, choice and opportunity
Subjective rankings of probabilities
Switch to compact fluorescents
Tailgating
The 7 principles
There are many kinds of engagement that can be pursued for climate change
Turning into a fish
Uncertainty language used in IPCC FAR
Upside Down
US Newspaper coverage
Volunteering
What images do people get?
What's a gigaton - coal
What's a gigaton - wind
When released, major technical assessments receive just a fraction of overall coverage
Wildlife
Wildlife Trade
World newspaper coverage 2004 - 2015