Climate Blog

Museums Mobilizing Climate Action
by Billy Spitzer, August 06 2018
(Excerpted from a commencement speech for the Harvard Extention School Museum Studies Program) The Role of Museums In Tackling Climate Change At the New England Aquarium, I spend most of my time working at the intersection of museums and...
IPCC Communications Tips for Scientists Are Good News for Public Understanding
by Allison Arteaga, February 08 2018
In late January, ahead of the anticipated release of a new IPCC report later this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new handbook for their scientific authors on how to more effectively engage the public and...
The Right Message from the Right Messenger
by Allison Arteaga, December 20 2017
The National Network for Ocean & Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI) has some exciting news for climate change communicators! Those of you who have received training in Strategic Framing® techniques through the network may recall collecting pre-...
Lessons from COP23 - The Power Of Community
by Allison Arteaga, November 22 2017
Last week, the world’s leading voices on climate change gathered in Bonn, Germany for the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Since last year’s conference in Marrakech, the...
The Problem with Solutions & How to Fix It
April 05 2017
This is the seventh and final post in a series about framing climate and ocean change. When environmental advocates talk about problems, they sometimes leave out one of the most important parts of the discussion: solutions. This error of...
My Community is My Hope #100HopefulDays
by Sarah-Mae Nelson, MAS, CIG/CIT, February 03 2017
Today I turn 37 years old. This seems like an impossible number. In my mind, I am a vibrant 21-year-old eager to make the world a better place. I see opportunities to make a positive difference everywhere. I am young, I am empowered, and I am...
To Frame Climate Change, Lead with a Researched Value—Not a “Rogue” One
January 20 2017
This is the sixth post in a series about framing ocean and climate change. So, you want to motivate the public to take action to address climate and ocean change? One of the most important communications moves you can make is to open with a...
Metaphors Can Counter Misinformation about Climate Change
December 02 2016
This is the fifth post in a series about framing ocean and climate change. Our ability to communicate the science of climate change to the public is as important as ever. The outcome of the recent presidential and congressional elections and...
Visualizing Change: A New (Free!) Multimedia Toolkit for Communicating Climate and Ocean Change
November 04 2016
More than ever before, informal science learning institutions are finding ways to live to their conservation missions by helping the public understand the causes, consequences, and appropriate responses to climate change. Yet, the latest scientific...
We Need a Sea Change in How We Communicate about Ocean Change. Metaphors Can Help.
October 28 2016
This is the fourth post in a series about framing ocean and climate change. We depend on our oceans and must protect them, yet they are often overlooked in public conversations about “climate change.” As a result, most people don’t understand...