{"id":3931,"date":"2019-10-21T15:57:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2019-10-21T15:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:57:30","slug":"new-approaches-to-climate-change-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2019\/10\/21\/new-approaches-to-climate-change-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"New Approaches To Climate Change Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2019\/10\/wcai.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2019\/10\/wcai.jpg 660w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2019\/10\/wcai-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Living Lab Radio on WCAI (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capeandislands.org\/post\/new-approaches-climate-change-communication#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\">Living Lab Radio on WCAI<\/a><br>by Elsa Partan and Heather Goldstone<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think climate change is too serious to joke about? Consider this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With each new scientific report, the situation seems more dire. But the social and political will to address the issue has lagged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years, scientists and communicators thought the problem was that the facts weren\u2019t getting through to the public. But years of research suggests the obstacle may be a more fundamental issue of&nbsp;<em>how<\/em>&nbsp;we talk about climate change and science, more broadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that has led some researchers to experiment with some pretty unorthodox ways to break through the inertia and polarization surrounding climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comedy is just one of several approaches Max Boykoff discusses in his new book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/sciencepolicy.colorado.edu\/publications\/special\/ccc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Creative (Climate) Communications (opens in a new tab)\">Creative (Climate) Communications<\/a><\/em>. He is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado Boulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/wcai\/audio\/2019\/10\/LL102119c.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Listen to the program (opens in a new tab)\">Listen to the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living Lab Radio on WCAIby Elsa Partan and Heather Goldstone Think climate change is too serious to joke about? Consider this. With each new scientific report, the situation seems more dire. But the social and political will to address the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2019\/10\/21\/new-approaches-to-climate-change-communication\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-05 02:56:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}