[Music] For decades, we've been talking and talking and talking about climate change, the indisputable evidence, the mounting risks, the clear and present dangers. Yet, we still have not sufficiently reduced our greenhouse gas emissions. And we still have not made the necessary investments to protect ourselves from the impacts of climate change. And to top it all off, right now, US climate science is under attack. So, as a climate scientist, I'm asking myself, what more can I possibly do? What more can I an ...

Education & Communication Challenges - Traditional lecture-based teaching is less effective than active learning approaches [7][8][9] - A gap exists between scientific information and public comprehension, exacerbated by the backfire effect where sharing facts can reinforce existing beliefs [13][14] - Thought-terminating clichés hinder productive scientific discourse [25] Strategies for Improvement - Instructors should embrace student-centered philosophies and cultivate compassionate classroom environments to minimize stress [16] - Scientists should communicate with empathy and curiosity, prioritizing the audience's perspective [15][18][19] - Non-scientists should adopt a skeptical, data-driven, and reflective mindset when encountering scientific information [38] - Non-scientists should evaluate the reliability of sources, favoring scholarly sources and being critical of popular information sources [27][28][29][30] - Non-scientists should distinguish between anecdotal and empirical evidence, favoring data gathered using the scientific method [31][32][33] - Individuals should recognize the limits of their knowledge and avoid overestimating their competence, as described by the Dunning-Kruger effect [34][35][36]