‘Scientists can communicate’
Pricewinning British science journalist Tim Radford argues that researchers are not hopeless at explaining their work to a general audience.
Pricewinning British science journalist Tim Radford argues that researchers are not hopeless at explaining their work to a general audience.
Renowned climatologist and Head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies James Hansen recently wrote a short essay, explaining the path from developing scientific understanding, to improving civil implementation of that knowledge – or how he became ‘an activist’:
“Closing the newspaper with a sigh is not enough.” Says Simon Lewis, a Royal Society research fellow and reader in global change science at the University of Leeds.