Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Sciences

摘要

To protect fragile ecosystems and to build sustainable communities that are resilient to climate change-including extreme weather and climate events- a climate-literate citizenry is essential. This climate science literacy guide indentifies the essential principles and fundamental concepts that individuals and communities should understand about Earth's climate system. Such understanding improves our ability to make decisions about activities that increase vulnerability to the impacts of climatechange and to take precautionary steps in our lives and livlihoods that would reduce those vulnerabilities