Another Look at Bridging the Great American Divide

Most Americans support climate action, but you wouldn’t know it from Congress or the courts – or from most of the media. People on both the left and the right experience the same devastating floods, the same life-threatening heatwaves and the same catastrophic wildfires. Yet individuals tend to socialize within insulated political tribes, operate in completely different information bubbles and see the problems and solutions through different lenses. 

How can we learn to bridge ideological divides, develop trust, and find the common ground needed to rebuild respectful civil discourse?

John Curtis

U.S. Representative (R-UT)

Joan Blades

Co-founder, LivingRoomConversations.org

John Gable

Co-founder, AllSides.com

December 12, 2023 | 6:00 p.m.

Climate One is delighted to present the 2023 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication to atmospheric scientist Dr. Ben Santer.

Santer was lead author on the historic 1995 conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which proclaimed that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." At the time, Stephen Schneider told Santer that the sentence he wrote would change the world. Santer's work also laid the groundwork for the expanding field of attribution science, which enables activists and lawyers to ascribe proportionate blame to specific polluters in lawsuits demanding damages for climate-disrupting emissions.

Also joining Climate One for the live ceremony will be Kassie Siegel, Director of the Climate Law Institute, Center for Biological Diversity. Tickets are on sale now!

December 13, 2023 | 12:00 p.m.

People's lives and livelihoods depend on science. But when those lives and livelihoods are threatened by impacts of a changing climate, how many of us know a scientist we can turn to who can help us protect our communities?

Community Science happens when lay people and scientists do science together to advance community priorities. Natasha Udu-gama is Director of the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Thriving Earth Exchange, which connects communities with scientists and supports them as they work together to tackle local challenges related to natural hazards, natural resources, and climate change. Daniel Wildcat is a professor at Haskell Indian Nations University and serves on the steering committee of Rising Voices, a network of tribal and community leaders and earth scientists that bring Indigenous and earth sciences into partnership. Angela Chalk is an AGU Community Science Fellow and Executive Director of Healthy Community Services in New Orleans.

Join Climate One Co-Host Greg Dalton in this special, in-person conversation with Udu-gama, Wildcat, and Chalk, presented in collaboration with AGU at The Commonwealth Club of California. 

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