I spend a lot of time talking about the changing climate to a wide variety of audiences. It’s a tricky thing to do because a lot of the sources I use to document the changes are scientific journals with their own set of jargon. If I try to use those words in communicating to non-scientists I can quickly confuse them. Here is a discussion in Anthropocene talking about how climate experts confuse the general public by using words that most non-scientists have just a vague understanding of. If we want people to understand and respond to changes we are seeing in the world around us, we need to make sure they can understand what we are saying. And we also need to listen to the needs of the farmers, water managers, and other stakeholders to understand what information they need to make decisions for the future, too.
