The 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) established agreements for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Every national academy of science states that anthropogenic sources of GHGs, caused by human activities, impact the Earth's climate. However, �climate deniers� claiming there is no scientific basis for climate change, and that it is a well-orchestrated hoax. So contentious were these allegations that computers of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were �hacked� and email messages and reports became �evidence� of this �scientific hoax.� Results included disruptions of FCCC policy negotiations and erosion of public confidence in the science of climate change. This presentation investigates growth of climate information, defines different levels of understanding of and access to information, provides a context by which information is generated, and presents a model demonstrating the role scientific data and information in an environmental decision-making model.

Role of STEM data and information in an environmental decision-making scenario: The case of climate change

246th National Meeting (2013)

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.