I’m participating in a panel this evening where Naomi Oreskes will discuss her excellent 2011 book Merchants of Doubt and the invention and manipulation of scientific uncertainty to impede public understanding and public policy in topics from tobacco to climate change. I would like to paint a broader picture of where Merchants of Doubt fits […]
Can “Climate Fiction” Advance Thinking and Communication on Climate Change?
Last week, Mark Trexler of the Climatographers gave an interview to Dan Bloom of Cli-Fi Central on his thoughts about how to communicate the risks of global climate change. Dan’s blog focuses on “climate fiction” (thus, “Cli-Fi”) which he defines as “a genre of literature which uses climate change as its main topic.” He notes that […]
Can Fiction be Used as an Effective Climate Communications Tool?
Interested in the idea of “Cli-Fi” (Climate fiction)? Mark Trexler of The Climatographers discusses the idea in this short video, using the Climate Risk Brain. Neither of us had heard the term until a few weeks ago, and we find it an interesting idea: does a separate “cli-fi” genre help raise awareness of climate risk […]
