Theme for 2025: Towards a Thriving Planet: Charting the Course Across Scales
Abstract Deadline: 29 August 2024
Proposed session: Oral presentation
Climate attribution science allows us to quantify the impact of carbon pollution on both major extreme weather events and more localized conditions. It helps us understand how climate change increases the likelihood and/or severity of large-scale phenomena like unnatural disasters, as well as smaller-scale variations such as daily air temperatures and sea-surface temperature anomalies.
According to the Yale Climate Opinion Maps, 72% of the public understands that the climate is changing. However, they still have questions about what that means to them, their families and communities. Advances in attribution science provide a strong opportunity to help connect climate change with people’s daily experiences.
In this session, we’ll take you through a case study of how an interdisciplinary team of scientists, communication experts, and visual designers support the media with education, science, and content to make the climate connection in the most extreme heat events of 2024. We’ll show you examples of local meteorologists and journalists connecting the exceptional heat to real-life impacts such as health risks to outdoor workers, rising costs of energy, and kids' summer activities.
You will gain resources, like Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index, to integrate into your work, offering a daily tool to connect climate change with tangible real-world impacts and bridge the gap between scientific research and everyday experiences.
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