Cornell Researchers Call for Creation of ‘Science of Climate Diversity’

It’s just what the doctor ordered: the science of climate diversity.

Here’s an excerpt from a Cornell Chronicle report released today:

There is cloud hanging over climate science, but one Cornell expert on communication and environmental issues says he knows how to help clear the air.

In the December issue of Nature Climate Change, Jonathon Schuldt ’04, assistant professor of communication, joins co-author Adam Pearson ’03, assistant professor of psychology at Pomona College, to argue that only by creating a “science of climate diversity” that helps guide researchers and public leaders can climate science and the larger climate-change movement overcome a crippling lack of ethnic and racial diversity.

“There is an invisible but very real barrier to climate engagement,” Schuldt said. “We need to engage with all kinds of diverse folks if we’re going to face this challenge. It will be a problem if the perception, and the reality, is that it’s a bunch of white male scientists at the table.”

Those interested can read the rest of the article here. Pearson and Schuldt’s actual paper is entitled “Facing the diversity crisis in climate science.”