SCIENCE
Climate touches everything. Scientists are the explorers, storytellers, and communicators vital to re-imagining a sustainable and healthy planet. These resources will help you understand how climate touches your profession and your role for climate action.
“We can’t solve climate change or make it go away. It’s here. But how can we still create the best of all possible futures for the people and the ecosystems and the communities that we love?” ~ Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, PhD
Climate Justice Organizations
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Articles
Communication Articles
Scientists need to face both facts and feeling in dealing with the climate crisis (Guardian, 2021)
Why is science so polarizing? Blame the way we talk about it (Grist, 2021)
Science - especially climate research - needs a ‘sunshine law’ (Grist, 2021)
How climate experts think about raising children who will inherit a planet in crisis (WaPo, 2020)
These scientists are using machine learning to listen to nature (Grist, 2020)
We are here: New climate design shows us our future in red hot stripes (Grist, 2019)
40 years of the world Climate Research Programme (Inside Climate News, 2019)
RIP Wallace Broeker: The scientist who changed the way we think about the climate (Grist, 2019)
The problem with putting a deadline on the climate apocalypse (Grist, 2019)
The head and the heart: why science and art should work together (Grist, 2019)
Social and Racial Justice
I'm a Black climate expert. Racism derails our efforts to save the planet (WaPo, 2020)
News and Social Media Articles
Climate change and US news audiences (Climate Change Communications, 2020)
Improving online dialogues about justice and equity in climate and science (Rowan Institute)
Disinformation and Disruption Articles
Why COVID deniers and climate skeptics paint scientists as alarmist (Grist, 2020)
Coronavirus already hindering climate science (Inside Climate News, 2020)
Contrarian scientist helped Trump’s EPA deny mainstream science (Inside Climate News, 2020)
Heartland launches website of contrarian climate science (Inside Climate News, 2020)
Exxon scientists testimony on company's climate research and denial (Inside Climate News, 2019)
Activism Articles
Scientist tells of relief after speaking out over weedkiller fears (Guardian, 2021)
Researchers purpose through policy, advocacy, public engagement (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021)
Crossing the line: A scientist’s road from neutrality to activism (Inside Climate News, 2020)
From Scientist to Activist (Union of Concerned Scientists, 2019)
Books
Braiding Sweetgrass (2020)
All We Can Save (2020)
The Future We Choose (2020)
Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution (2017)
Project Drawdown (2017)
A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist’s Bicycle Journey Across the United States (2017)
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (2015)
Merchants of Doubt (2011)
Podcasts
Communicating Climate Science Podcasts
Indigenizing environmental science and mutual aid (Raíces Verdes, 2021)
Project Drawdown (Climate One, 2020)
How we can use meteorology as a tool (Shaping the Future, 2020)
Drawdown -- do we have what it takes? (Climate One, 2019)
Breaking down how sustainability applies to everything (Green Dreamer, 2019)
Combining science, entertainment, and insects in sustainability (Green Dreamer, 2019)
Breaking down climate change science into three simple steps (Green Dreamer, 2019)
Dangers of doing science in the field (Warm Regards, 2019)
Storytelling and the Need for Simple Narratives in Science (America Adapts, 2018)
On humanizing science (Warm Regards), 2016
Climate Scientist Stories (Podcasts)
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Work in Progress, 2020)
Heather Price -- Climate Scientist & Chemistry Professor (How to Save the Planet, 2020)
Kevin Anderson -- Climate action failure, equality and the climate crisis (Shaping the Future, 2020)
Peter Klamus -- speaking out (Shaping the Future, 2020)
Sarah Myhre -- An Intersectional Approach on Climate (Drilled, 2019)
Terry Root -- My climate story (Climate One, 2019)
Ben Santer -- My climate story (Climate One, 2019)
Harassment of women scientists (Warm Regards, 2017)
Jane Goodall -- talks about her life work (Climate One, 2017)
Climate scientists are people too (Warm Regards, 2016)
Politics and Science Podcasts
Why more scientists are running for office (Warm Regards, 2017)
Science in a post-fact world (Warm Regards, 2017)
Political Science (Climate One, 2012)