This book demonstrates how robust and evolving science can be relevant to public discourse about Climate policy.
Advancing both is an unending task..
For preserving Earth\'s planetary life support system, science and teaching are essential.
Its authors are not only scientists - they are also teachers, using current events to teach when people are listening.
In addition to its discussion of topical issues in modern Climate science, the book also explores science communication to a broad audience.
Proceeding each essay is an explanation of the context in which it was written, followed by observation of what has happened since its first publication.
The overall volume is more than the sum of its individual articles.
Each of the Essays provides an opportunity to learn about a particular aspect of Climate science and policy within the complex context of current events.
In a series of essays, published during the 2020 presidential election, the COVID pandemic, and through the fall of 2021, they explain the essential components of the challenge, countering the forces of distrust of the science and opposition to a vigorous national response.
Here, four scholars, each with decades of research on the Climate threat, take on the task of explaining our current understanding of the Climate threat and what can be done about it, in lay language--importantly, without losing critical aspects of the natural and social science.
The scientific, economic, and policy aspects of Climate change are already a Challenge to communicate, without factoring in the distractions and deflections from organized programs of misinformation and denial.
This understanding is essential for an effective risk management strategy at a planetary scale.
A second and equally important difficulty is ensuring widespread public understanding of the natural and social science.
Fighting Climate change is the ultimate societal challenge, and the difficulty is not just in the wrenching adjustments required to cut greenhouse emissions and to respond to change already under way.
This book demonstrates how robust and evolving science can be relevant to public discourse about Climate policy
