{"id":1558,"date":"2018-03-25T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/jsterman\/?page_id=1558"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:39:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:39:19","slug":"riskcommunication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/jsterman\/riskcommunication\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1558\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1558-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1558-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1558-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_mit-pf-wysiwyg widget_mit_pf_wysiwyg panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><h2 class=\"widget-title\">  Risk Communication on Climate: Mental Models and Mass Balance <\/h2><div class=\"textwidget\"><div class=\"page threecol\">\n<div class=\"wrapper1\">\n<div class=\"col2 contentcol\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Sterman, John D. (2008)\u00a0 Risk Communication on Climate: Mental Models and Mass Balance.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Science<\/em>\u00a0322 (24 October): 532-533.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.1162574<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The strong scientific consensus on the causes and risks of climate change stands in stark contrast to widespread confusion and complacency among the public.\u00a0 This policy forum explores the reasons for the gap, reports experimental results with MIT graduate students showing poor understanding of the basic processes of accumulation governing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and discusses the implications for climate research and policy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For Access to This Paper<\/span>\u2014If you are a student or faculty at another institution and would like a final copy of this paper, please email my assistant Jocelyn using the button below. 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(2008)\u00a0 Risk Communication on Climate: Mental Models and Mass Balance.\u00a0\u00a0Science\u00a0322 (24 October): 532-533. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.1162574 Abstract The strong scientific consensus on the causes and risks of climate change stands in stark contrast to widespread confusion and complacency among the public.\u00a0 This policy forum explores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1558","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>- John Sterman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/jsterman\/riskcommunication\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Risk Communication on Climate: Mental Models and Mass Balance Sterman, John D. 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