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SUMMARY:Climate Change: Making the Best Use of Scientific Information
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DESCRIPTION:Climate science regularly makes headlines in the media\, usual
 ly after an extreme weather event or a disaster\, or in the wake of campai
 gns by think tanks about the science of climate change. In this presentati
 on\, I discuss four specific challenges that are posed to climate scientis
 t when communicating with the public: (i) The widening gap between the sci
 entific literacy of the public and the communication literacy of the scien
 tists\; (ii)\, the multiplicity of scientific information conduits\; (iii)
 \, information of\, and under\, uncertainty\; and (iv)\, the requirement t
 o be precise without using technical language. It turns out that these cha
 llenges are quite generic to science communication. Climate scientists hav
 e learned from the regular international assessments they perform under th
 e auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and have accum
 ulated a collective experience of more than 20 years. In this presentation
  I discuss the most important lessons learned from this experience and the
 ir relevant for other science areas which are also frequently communicatin
 g with the media and the public.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDispla
 y.py?confId=187060
LOCATION:CERN Council Chamber
URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=187060
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