A key route via which the public currently acquires climate science information is through the media. In 2011, a series of focus groups and a national opinion poll were conducted to assess the public’s reaction to climate science news articles and explore issues of trust in climate scientists. In this talk, Dr. Rosie Robison, Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University will present the key findings of this important study, which gives interesting insights into how the public engages with climate change issues. Dr. Robison will also raise some wider questions about the differences (and similarities) between scientists’ and non-scientists’ attitudes to climate science.

Please book a place for this talk, which you can do by emailing info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org or calling 01223 301842.

• Speaker: Dr. Rosie Robison, Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University.
• Tuesday 22 January 2013, 19:30-21:30
• Venue: Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) room 109. Arrival either via the main entrance to ARU (on East Rd), and ask for directions, or come to the side entrance to the Lord Ashcroft Building on Broad St..
• Series: Cambridge Carbon Footprint; organiser: Stephanie Ferguson.