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How can we better communicate about climate change?
Posted by ClimateNE on February 2, 2012 4:09 PM
Posted by Krista
Who would you trust to provide accurate information about climate change?
A scientist? A politician? The media? A businessman? Your children?
The Royal Meterological (RMetS) produced an interesting video-recorded survey in 2008 www.rmets.org/video/talking-heads/science-festival.html asking Liverpudlians this question, and many respondents said that they would trust scientists, but often-times the context in which scientists present information about climate change is difficult to digest. Or if the media reports on the release of new scientific evidence related to climate change, e.g. rate of glaciers melting and implications for sea level rise, the impact is not always put into the bigger picture of global climate, and hence it can sometimes be tricky for those without an inherent interest in climate change to make the connections between what may seem to be a distant issue, but one that actually has implications for us all.
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The impacts of climate change on North East businesses
Posted by ClimateNE on February 10, 2012 1:16 PM
Posted by Jen
An interesting question ClimateNE often faces is: what are the impacts of climate change likely to be for North East businesses?
This has always been a fairly complex question to answer as the evidence has often been located in disparate pieces of research that perhaps have focused on specific sectors or geographic areas.
However, we can now shed some light on this much-asked question...
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