Dr. Chris Field: The 2015 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication
Dr. Chris Field, who was recently on the short list to chair the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was visiting Climate One to accept 2015 Stephen Schneider Award for Climate Science Communication. He disagrees with the assumption that global warming is too abstract and faraway a concept for the average person to understand.
“I think that if there's a single message that's clearer than any other in the recent assessments of climate science, it’s that we’re all vulnerable,” asserts Field. “There's nobody who is not influenced by high temperatures or heat waves. And even if you're in a place that doesn't experience a climate extreme, we live in an environment now that so interconnected by trade and migration and supply chains that there really isn’t anybody who is safe. And I think people understand that.”