As interest in effective science communication and public engagement has exploded over the past few years, still missing is coordinated thinking and strategy specific to longterm societal goals and policy outcomes. Too much of the discussion has focused narrowly on skills training and the application of social science insights without a longterm social change vision….

For a October 8 article appearing at Nature magazine and Scientific American, I spoke with Quirin Schiermeier about need to integrate a broader range of expertise from the social sciences into the IPCC process— MCN South Korean economist Hoesung Lee, a professor at the Korea University in Seoul, was elected as the fourth chair of…