TY - JOUR
AU1 - Schmidt, Charles W.
AU2 - 
AB - News Spheres of Influence communication gap The Disconnect Between What Scientists Say and What the Public Hears A 548 James Endicott /Corbis Spheres of Influence | Communication Gap ojib Latif probably didn’t ing in the atmosphere. That lull M anticipate the public reac- in warming, their models showed, tion his research would attract last was temporary, and due to com- year. Writing in the 1 May 2008 plex interactions between the issue of Nature, he and his col- atmosphere and periodic cooling leagues from the Leibniz Institute cycles in the oceans. of Marine Sciences and the Max A meteorologist and oceanog- Planck Institute in Kiel, Germany, rapher, Latif emphasized that these predicted that increases in mean cyclical variations could occur even global temperatures could pause in the face of long-term climate into the next decade, even though trends. But to his surprise, skeptics greenhouse gas levels were still ris- seized on the findings as evidence A 549 Spheres of Influence Communication Gap that mean global temperatures aren’t “The ultimate goal [in science com- Climate change skeptics already do this really rising. The website newsbusters.org, munication],” says Nisbet, “is civic edu- successfully by predicting economic doom for instance, which bills 
TI - Communication Gap: The Disconnect Between What Scientists Say and What the Public Hears
JF - Environmental Health Perspectives
DO - 10.1289/ehp.117-a548
DA - 2009-12-01
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DP - DeepDyve
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