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AAAS panelists: Sandy a ‘game-changer’ for public perceptions

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Journalists and climate scientists at AAAS panel see ‘Superstorm Sandy’ as game-changer on public attitudes. Next step involves finding the right words, writes Jennifer Weeks, a writer specializing in environment and energy stories.

“Sandy connected the dots for a lot of people,” said Harvard biological oceanography professor James McCarthy, a long-standing contributor to IPCC climate assessments. “The U.S. public is there in a way that it was not five or ten years ago. Now the issue is to convey that support to decision makers.”

Jennifer Weeks is a Massachusetts-based freelance writer specializing in environment and energy stories.

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Themes Climate change Advocacy and media Governance
Country and region United States of America
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