Climate Related Actions, Choices and Ideas in Everyday Life from 115 AMS Members

What are AMS'members most pressing concerns regarding climate change and the environment? How do they perceive and experience climate change and its effects in their daily lives? What are their fears , opinions, priorities and levers for action for a real and noticeable impact? What forms of hope do they have on this subject?

This presentation provides some answers to these questions by analyzing the different proposals. It presents the results of an online survey that began at the 104th AMS Annual Meeting and ended in July 2024..

The idea was to learn more about actions that can help individuals adapt to changes in the climate. A few questions comes from the UN's Perception Change Project and the 17 SDG Goals. More broadly from a citizen science perspective, this will help to create of a sort of "citizen science group for climate action" within the AMS community...

The responses from these AMS members highlight

• Fear about climate change (>80% of responses)
• Energy (41%), Agriculture(19%) and Infrastructure (15%) as Top 3 ereas of authority they feel is the most critical to change
• Education and Individual choices can make a difference