Impulse text by Dr. Cornelia Auer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany Keeping global warming to well below 2°C is going to require global systems transitions that are unprecedented in scale. It is also going to necessitate significant emissions reductions in all sectors of society (IPCC – SR15). Accordingly,…
November 2020 Dr Cornelia Auer senior researcher of the Complexity Science Department of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in conversation with Prof. Birgit Schneider about the role of…
Impulse text by Dr. Inez Ponce de Leon, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines I am both a molecular biologist and a science communication scholar: I was socialized to believe that scientific knowledge would save the world, and that we needed information in order to thrive, survive, and make decisions. This…
November 2020 Molecular biologist and science communication scholar Dr. Inez Ponce de Leon (Ateneo De Manila University) in conversation with Prof. Birgit Schneider about different philosophical paradigms in climate change communication, the communication of warnings, and the importance of anthropological fieldwork for situated communication concepts.
Impulse text by Maximilian Hepach, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK Seeing three media at once? Paul Klee’s Fish Magic (1925) In August 2018, following heat waves and wildfires in Sweden, Greta Thunberg decided not to attend school and to instead protest outside of the Swedish Parliament, initiating the…
November 2020 Maximilian Hepach PhD candidate in Geography at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge in conversation with Prof. Birgit Schneider about how we experience the climate change bodily through the climatic weather, and why he sees our bodies as “climate archives”. Use…
Impulse text by Carel Mohn, Head of klimafakten.de, Germany What should be done better / more / in another way to communicate climate change to the public / to politicians? In another way: Take people seriously. Respect even those whose views about climate change and climate policy you dislike. More:…
November 2020 Carel Mohn founder and chief-editor of klimafakten.de in conversation with Prof. Birgit Schneider about “proper” language, the effect of “good” and “bad” behavior on the way we communicate, and the shift of mode in the climate community. Use the chapter function…