by admin | Apr 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
Over the last few months, the CHRN has had a number of new additions, pushing our number of active members over 60! As we begin to plan for our annual meeting (preliminary information and save-the-date coming soon), we wanted to introduce our newest members, Mike...
by admin | Mar 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Michael Levkowitz Back in 2010, huge swaths of the American public doubted the evidence of global warming. Thanks in part to efforts by risk communication professionals to develop best practices for undoing misinformation (such as the freely available Debunking...
by admin | Feb 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Michael LevkowitzAs Linden, Maibach and Leiserowitz argue in their paper Improving Public Engagement With Climate Change: Five “Best Practice” Insights From Psychological Science, many communication efforts about climate change focus on the future implications –...
by admin | Jan 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
As a part of an agency wide effort to encourage the use of Living Shorelines (also known as “Green Shorelines”), in October the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released Guidance for Considering the Use of Living Shorelines. According to the NOAA...
by admin | Dec 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
While Americans are increasingly in agreement about the science of and danger posed by Climate Change, national surveys have found that Americans are more likely to believe that the impacts of Climate Change will primarily affect geographically distant people and...
by admin | Dec 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) at the University of Washington recently released a State of Knowledge Report on Climate Change in Puget Sound. This report, funded jointly by the Puget Sound Institute, NOAA, and the State of Washington, builds on 20 years of regional...
