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We collaborated with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) to assess AMS members’ perspectives about climate change. Specifically, AMS hoped to learn its members' perspectives on a variety of issues pertaining to climate change including: their assessment of the evidence, their perception of conflict among our members, their views about AMS’s role in public education, and…

With funding from the National Science Foundation, we assessed TV weathercasters' views about their potential role as climate educators, and the resources that would be of most use to them in playing this role. Click Here to Download the Full Report.

Television news directors are a critically important "gatekeeper" of climate change information in that more Americans get their news from TV - especially local TV news - than from any other news source, and news directors make the decision as to which stories will run, and how the issue will be covered. Our most recent…