8:29 AM
8:29 AM
- Day 1 - A Perfect Cognitive Storm: Facing Surprises with Nonknowledge
- 8:29 AM EDT - 8:30 AM EDT | 1 minute
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
- Workshop with Dennis Meadows: Cognitive challenges of modeling long-term climate change dynamics
- 8:30 AM EDT - 10:30 AM EDT | 2 hours
- The phenomenon of climate change is still characterized by large uncertainty and ambiguous vocabulary. Thus rational discussion is difficult. In th...
- Workshop
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Naomi Oreskes : Can Science Be Saved?: Moving Beyond Climate Denial
- 11:00 AM EDT - 12:15 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- During the Covid-19 pandemic, public debates about the validity of scientific findings and the value of science have intensified, as some Americans...
- Keynote
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Paul Thagard: History of Cognitive Science and Its Relevance to Climate Change
- 12:45 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind, embracing psychology, computer modeling, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, and phi...
- Talk
2:05 PM
2:05 PM
- Eric Winsberg: Climate Science and Uncertainty
- 2:05 PM EDT - 3:20 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Over the last several years, there has been an explosion of interest and attention devoted to the problem of Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in cli...
- Talk
3:20 PM
3:20 PM
- Greetings in Gather.Town
- 3:20 PM EDT - 4:20 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Social
9:29 AM
9:29 AM
- Day 2 - Designing and Computing Climate Change Models: From ‘Limits to Growth’ to IPCC's Reports
- 9:29 AM EDT - 9:30 AM EDT | 1 minute
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Dennis Meadows: The influence of long-term global dynamics on climate change
- 9:30 AM EDT - 10:45 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Abstract: Concern about the weather ranges from local, short-term weather reports to projections of global, centuries-long climate trends. The form...
- Talk
10:50 AM
10:50 AM
- Serge Robert: The Modeling of Environmental Systems and its cognitive foundations
- 10:50 AM EDT - 12:05 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- The presentation will first explain what a system is and will then give some basic notions about how to build a model of a system. It will insist o...
- Talk
12:35 PM
12:35 PM
- Jean-Pierre Blanchet and Patrick Grenier: Observations and Representation of Climate Processes: From Understanding to Evaluation for Climate Services
- 12:35 PM EDT - 1:50 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Central to solving the climate change problem is the design of sophisticated observational means and model systems. The integration of reliable mea...
- Talk
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Philippe Gachon: Climate change sciences and models: For a comprehensive level of understanding of climate risks
- 2:00 PM EDT - 3:15 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- In recent decades, changes in climate have caused tremendous impacts on natural and human systems across the world, with an increase in socio-ec...
- Talk
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Orientation Session I (ONLY for Students enrolled for Credits)
- 3:30 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Students with credits session
9:29 AM
9:29 AM
- Day 3 - Rethinking climate models, carbon markets and governance
- 9:29 AM EDT - 9:30 AM EDT | 1 minute
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Christian Gollier: How should Society be organized to fight climate change? The economics viewpoint
- 9:30 AM EDT - 10:45 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- In order to win the world war against climate change, one will have to incentivize billions of people andentreprises to implement a myriad of micro...
- Talk
10:50 AM
10:50 AM
- Matthew Paterson: The centrality of politics to climate change and the problem of climate politics
- 10:50 AM EDT - 12:05 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Integrating the social sciences into knowledge production about climate change is widely recognized as difficult, for various reasons. But politica...
- Talk
12:35 PM
12:35 PM
- Stephen Gardiner: The centrality of ethics and justice to climate change
- 12:35 PM EDT - 1:50 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Talk
9:29 AM
9:29 AM
- Day 4 - The Intersection of Behavioral Science, Cognitive Sciences and Climate Science
- 9:29 AM EDT - 9:30 AM EDT | 1 minute
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Baruch Fischhoff: Making Behavioral Science Integral to Climate Science and Action
- 9:30 AM EDT - 10:45 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- The behavioral sciences were in at the beginning of the systematic study of climate change. However, for the ensuing quarter century, they largely ...
- Talk
10:50 AM
10:50 AM
- Susan L. Joslyn: Communicating Climate Change: A Cognitive Perspective
- 10:50 AM EDT - 12:05 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- This lecture will describe a research program directed at uncovering the cognitive mechanisms involved in non-expert understanding and use of infor...
- Talk
12:35 PM
12:35 PM
- Thomas Dietz: What we know and what we need to know about climate decision making
- 12:35 PM EDT - 1:50 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Research on environmental decision-making provides a strong basis for understanding decision that have consequence for climate. In particular, thre...
- Talk
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- John Robinson: Normalizing Sustainability: beyond behaviour change
- 2:00 PM EDT - 3:15 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Typical arguments for why we have not yet come close to achieving our climate and sustainability goals have to do with the power of vested interest...
- Talk
9:29 AM
9:29 AM
- Day 5 - Cognitive Mechanisms of Climate Change Denial
- 9:29 AM EDT - 9:30 AM EDT | 1 minute
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Stephan Lewandowsky: Climate denial: drivers and consequences
- 9:30 AM EDT - 10:45 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- I will examine both the “supply side” and “demand side” of climate denial. On the supply side I will report the evidence for the organized dissemin...
- Talk
10:50 AM
10:50 AM
- Sander van der Linden: A Psychological Vaccine Against Misinformation about Climate Change
- 10:50 AM EDT - 12:05 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Much like a viral contagion, false information about climate change can spread rapidly from one individual to another. Moreover, once lodged in mem...
- Talk
2:45 PM
2:45 PM
- Irina Feygina: Understanding and responding to motivated cognition processes underlying climate change skepticism and denial
- 2:45 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Climate change skepticism and disengagement are rooted in deeply seated human motives to belong, to identify with and feel accepted by groups an...
- Talk
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Poster Session I (in GatherTown)
- 4:00 PM EDT - 4:55 PM EDT | 55 minutes
- Poster Session
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- John Cook: Using inoculation and critical thinking to counter climate science denial
- 5:00 PM EDT - 6:15 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Misinformation about climate change confuses the public, reduces support for mitigation policies, and cancels out accurate information. Inoculation...
- Talk
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Orientation Session II (ONLY for Students enrolled for Credits)
- 12:00 PM EDT - 12:55 PM EDT | 55 minutes
- Students with credits session
1:54 PM
1:54 PM
- Day 6 - Interpreting Signs and Narratives
- 1:54 PM EDT - 1:55 PM EDT | 1 minute
1:55 PM
1:55 PM
- Mithra Moezzi: Energy transition story shakeup
- 1:55 PM EDT - 3:10 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- To combat climate change, many governments have made plans to overhaul how their jurisdictions use energy, transitioning from fossil-fuel center...
- Talk
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Raul Lejano: Narrative and Climate: Relational Perspectives on Communication
- 3:15 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- One of the relatively unexplored dimensions of climate denial is the power ofits narrative in attracting adherents. We investigate the properties o...
- Talk
9:59 AM
9:59 AM
- Day 7 - Learning, Teaching and Communicating about Climate Change
- 9:59 AM EDT - 10:00 AM EDT | 1 minute
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Connie Roser-Renouf: Effective Climate Communication Begins When We Meet Audiences Where They Are
- 10:00 AM EDT - 11:15 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Audience segmentation in the U.S. and Canada has identified discrete groups with beliefs and values that predispose them to ignore, dispute, or att...
- Talk
11:20 AM
11:20 AM
- Matthew A. Shapiro: Climate change-related communication challenges and the impact on the policy making process
- 11:20 AM EDT - 12:35 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- This presentation considers the varied ways that one can model and analyze the science-politics communication processwith regard to climate change....
- Talk
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Sara Harris: Does Learning Climate Science Matter?
- 1:00 PM EDT - 2:15 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- As more reports emerge describing current climate change impacts, dire forecasts and closing windows of opportunity to take mitigating action, what...
- Talk
2:20 PM
2:20 PM
- Gale M. Sinatra: Teaching and Learning about Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities
- 2:20 PM EDT - 3:35 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions about scientific issues. This presentation will focus on how teac...
- Talk
9:29 AM
9:29 AM
- Day 8 - New Behaviors at an Individual Level
- 9:29 AM EDT - 9:30 AM EDT | 1 minute
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Thibaud Griessinger: From individual action to systemic change: How can cognitive science contribute to the emergence of more sustainable and resilient social organisations
- 9:30 AM EDT - 10:45 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- The level of ecological degradation caused by human activities now presents such a risk of global instability that we have no choice but to rethink...
- Talk
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Karen Akerlof: Stationarity is Dead: Adaptation to a Changing World
- 2:30 PM EDT - 3:45 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- In 2008, the authors of a famous Science article proclaimed that climate change had rendered a fundamental societal assumption, that of ec...
- Talk
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- Poster Session II (in GatherTown)
- 3:45 PM EDT - 4:35 PM EDT | 50 minutes
4:35 PM
4:35 PM
- Best Poster Award (in GatherTown)
- 4:35 PM EDT - 4:55 PM EDT | 20 minutes
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Ben Newell: From “why should I bother?” to “Yes, we can!”: Risk, willingness, and cooperation in action on climate change
- 5:00 PM EDT - 6:15 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- A complete policy response to climate change, habitat destruction, plastic pollution, and other Anthropocene challenges requires action by governme...
- Talk
11:14 AM
11:14 AM
- Day 9 - New Behaviors at an Organizational Level
- 11:14 AM EDT - 11:15 AM EDT | 1 minute
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- John Ehrenfeld: Flourishing, not sustainability, is the right vision for the future
- 11:15 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- 1-Flourishing, not sustainability, is the right vision for the future2- The Right Way to Flourish....
- Talk
12:35 PM
12:35 PM
- Leidy Klotz: A Legacy of Less: Subtracting in the Anthropocene
- 12:35 PM EDT - 1:50 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Talk
2:15 PM
2:15 PM
- Manjana Milkoreit: Expanding the Toolbox of Climate Governance: Facilitating Collective Imagination
- 2:15 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Political organizations across various scales are engaged in addressing climate change through the design of policies (e.g., a carbon tax), plans (...
- Talk
3:35 PM
3:35 PM
- William E. Rees: The Enigma of Climate Inaction – On the Human Nature of Policy Failure
- 3:35 PM EDT - 4:50 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- H. sapiens is a self-described intelligent species, yet seems committed to destroying its own habitat. Human-induced climate change, driven by carb...
- Talk
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Robert Costanza: Overcoming our societal addiction to growth
- 5:00 PM EDT - 6:15 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Talk
8:59 AM
8:59 AM
- Day 10 - Climate Activism and Environmental Justice
- 8:59 AM EDT - 9:00 AM EDT | 1 minute
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Julia Steinberger: Struggle for survival: The importance of climate activism from the perspectives of political economy and science communication
- 9:00 AM EDT - 10:15 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Climate activism is crucial for any sustained progress on climate action. I will discuss this from two systemic perspectives in social science: pol...
- Talk
10:20 AM
10:20 AM
- Karen O’Brien: Transformation in Action: The role of agency in responding to the climate crisis
- 10:20 AM EDT - 11:35 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- What kind of actions are most effective in shifting cultures and systems at the rate, scale, speed, and depth that is called for today? With more ...
- Talk
11:40 AM
11:40 AM
- Clare Saunders: Climate change activism in the UK: Continuity and change over the last 20 years
- 11:40 AM EDT - 12:55 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Climate activism has been hitting the streets since the early 2000s, but has come in notable peaks and troughs. What is it that causes those peaks ...
- Talk
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Lauren Feldman: Communicating Hope and Fear in a Context of Climate Emergency
- 1:15 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Scholars, journalists, and activists continue to debate the role of emotional messaging in climate change communication. This talk will consider ex...
- Talk
2:35 PM
2:35 PM
- Maxwell Boykoff: Engaged Scientists: Academic Climate Advocacy and Activism in 2021
- 2:35 PM EDT - 3:50 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Is academic climate advocacy to be celebrated or derided? There are various flavours of climate advocacy and activism among academic researchers. S...
- Talk
4:15 PM
4:15 PM
- One last time in Gather.Town
- 4:15 PM EDT - 5:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Social