An email I sent to MIT Alumni for Climate Action (MACA) education group about the new Journal Club:

Hello,

Yes, I said I would present first! I hope I meet MACA's great expectations!

When helping Yuqi with climate lessons, I learned about adaptation and mitigation. This led me to a National Academies video presentation on Adaptation. From there, I learned that I lack knowledge in sociology and psychology of climate change, and the experts suggested more sociology and psychology knowledge. Because I desire to communicate more effectively about climate change, I have spent some time reading sociology and psychology articles on climate change.

In this case, the first article I read is [2]. Yuqi introduced me to [3], and I thought a possible interesting presentation would be a comparison of past 2010 public opinions[1] with present 2022 public opinions[2,3,4]. Shil impacted this decision when he said he thinks most people now believe in climate change. So, my presentation will be comparing journal article [1] to journal article [2] with supporting articles [3,4]. All are publicly available.

Yuqi, please let me know if this does not meet your vision.

References:

[1] Catherine M. Cooney. (2010). The Perception Factor: Climate Change Gets Personal. Environmental Health Perspectives, 118(11), A484–A489. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.118-a484

[2] Sparkman, G., Geiger, N. & Weber, E.U. Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half. Nat Commun 13, 4779 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32412-y

[3] Frantz, C.M. To create serious movement on climate change, we must dispel the myth of indifference. Nat Commun 13, 4780 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32413-x

[4] Princeton University, Engineering School. "Fighting climate change is wildly popular but most Americans don't know that: A new study finds support for climate action is underestimated by nearly every sector of American society." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 August 2022. URL: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220823123556.htm