{"id":1033,"date":"2021-10-11T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/women-in-climate\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2023-10-11T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:20:24","slug":"dr-kate-marvel-climate-clouds-and-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/womeninclimate\/2021\/10\/11\/dr-kate-marvel-climate-clouds-and-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Kate Marvel: Climate, Clouds and Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month we held a joint meeting with the Inspiring Science seminar series at the University of Exerer, and we were fortunate to be joined by Dr Kate Marvel- a high profile physicist and climate science who is also well-known for climate communication. Kate\u2019s career has spanned researching policy relevant science issues at Stanford, wind power and the Carnegie Institute, fingerprinting the human influence in precipitation change at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and climate forcings and feedbacks at Columbia University. Most recently, Kate teaches Dynamics of Climate Variability and Change at Columbia University whilst also working at NASA GISS. Kate\u2019s communication efforts started with a blog, but have included high profile writing in Scientific America and the book\/project \u2018All We Can Save\u2019 as well as high profile interviews with Time magazine, the New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine. Kate gave a TED Talk on clouds and climate change in 2017 which has had over 1.3 million views.<\/p>\n

To start the meeting, Kate gave us a brief overview of her climate communication work, and the difficulties of telling a story that might not seem very interesting to some, and even just depressing. Kate noted that we are at a point where the global political landscape is shifting. We shouldn\u2019t be trying to counter the question- \u2018I don\u2019t believe in climate change\u2019. This isn\u2019t the biggest threat, as this only accounts for a very small amount of hard to reach people. Instead, many people are apathetic or don\u2019t know what to do about it. We need to talk to the people who don\u2019t understand climate change, who don\u2019t see how it will impact them, who don\u2019t care and don\u2019t know what to do. This is a much larger proportion of society which is open to listening.<\/p>\n