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Climate Change
FR402
FR402
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How to Cite
Layman Bode, Claire, Martha C. Monroe, and Mark A. Megalos. 2017. “Strategies for Communicating Climate Change to Extension Audiences: FOR333/FR402, 1/2017”. EDIS 2017 (2). Gainesville, FL:5. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fr402-2017.
Abstract
This publication is second in a series on climate change communication for Extension professionals. This 5-page fact sheet provides strategies for overcoming challenges in communicating about climate change. Written by Claire Needham Bode, Martha C. Monroe, and Mark Megalos, and published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, January 2017.
FOR333/FR402: Strategies for Communicating Climate Change to Extension Audiences (ufl.edu)
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Leiserowitz, A., E. Maibach, C. Roser-Renouf, and J. Hmielowski 2012. Global Warming's Six Americas, March 2012 & Nov. 2011. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. Available at: http://environment.yale. edu/climate/files/Six-Americas-March-2012.pdf
Maibach, E., T. Myers, and A. Leiserowitz 2014. "Climate Scientists Need to Set the Record Straight: There Is a Scientific Consensus that Human-Caused Climate Change Is Happening." Earth's Future, 2, doi:10.1002/2013EF000226. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013EF000226
McCright, A. M., and R. E. Dunlap 2003. "Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on US Climate Change Policy." Social Problems, 50(3), 348-373. https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2003.50.3.348
Moser, S. C., and L. Dilling 2004. "Making Climate HOT." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 46(10), 32-46. doi:10.1080/00139150409605820 https://doi.org/10.1080/00139150409605820
Nesbit, M. C. 2009. "Communicating climate change: Why frames matter for public engagement." Environment. Mar. N.P. Web. 20 Oct. 2013. <www.environmentmagazine.org>.
Oreskes, N. 2004. "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change." Science, 306(5702), 1686. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1686.full https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1103618
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Columbia University, New York.
Schwartz, S. H., and W. Bilsky 1987. "Toward a Universal Psychological Structure of Human Values." Journal of Personal Social Psychology 53(3); 550-562). https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.53.3.550
van der Linden, S. A., A. Leiserowitz, G. Feinberg, and E. G. Maibach 2014. "How to communicate the scientific consensus on climate change: plain facts, pie charts or metaphors?" Climatic Change 126(1): 255-262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1190-4