ABSTRACT

That climate change has been accelerated by human activity is supported by a near-universal consensus of climate scientists. In this paper, we review many of the studies that have been done on the impact of communicating the scientific consensus to the general public. We discuss ongoing debates about these studies, but more importantly, we highlight complementary areas that we believe should define future research. We emphasize how a focus on processing motivations, context, and message variations may help resolve some of the debates about when scientific consensus messaging works. We then discuss ways to expand this research agenda by examining support for a broader range of outcomes across a wider range of populations, particularly those most vulnerable to the immediate impacts of climate change. Our goal is to provide a blueprint for expanding the work on climate change communication for scientific consensus messaging and beyond.

摘要

气候科学家近乎普遍的共识支持人类活动加速了气候变化。在本文中，我们回顾了许多关于将科学共识传达给公众的影响的研究。我们讨论了关于这些研究的持续辩论，但更重要的是，我们强调了我们认为应该定义未来研究的互补领域。我们强调关注处理动机、上下文和消息变化可能如何帮助解决关于科学共识消息传递何时起作用的一些争论。然后，我们讨论如何通过检查对更广泛人群的更广泛成果的支持来扩大这一研究议程，尤其是那些最容易受到气候变化直接影响的人群。