The Climate Debate Demystified: An Interdisciplinary Panel

In order to understand how to change public opinion regarding climate change and influence the politics and policies surrounding this issue, we must first understand the way people think about climate change and the way that climate change is communicated to the public through the media. This panel will bring together leading Stanford faculty, students, and Bay Area experts in policy, science, economics, and media to explore this issue from many diverse perspectives. We will cover the psychology involved in thinking about climate change and other environmental issues, media portrayal of climate change, communication of climate change to the public, and the interaction of all of these areas to shape public opinion.

Panel: Tom Hayden, Moderator, Lecturer in School of Earth Sciences

• Jon Krosnick, Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences
• Noah Diffenbaugh, Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Senior Fellow in Woods Institute for the Environment
• Nik Sawe, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
• Lauren Faber, Environmental Defense Fund
• Lauren Sommer, KQED Radio