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Climate change communication should focus less on specific numbers

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Science News

Publication Date
2022-01-11

What’s in a number? The goals of the 2021 United Nations’ climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, called for nations to keep a warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius “within reach.” But when it comes to communicating climate change to the public, some scientists worry that too much emphasis on a specific number is a poor strategy.

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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-communication-numbers-goals