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Message In A Bottleneck? Attitudes And Perceptions Of Climate Change In The Cooperative Extension Service In The Southeastern United States, Deborah J. Wojcik, Martha C. Monroe, Damian C. Adams, Richard R. Plate

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

This paper addresses factors affecting climate change perceptions and attitudes among Cooperative Extension professionals in the Southeastern United States. Extension serves as a critical link between climate researchers and stakeholders who have the capacity to directly affect climate change impacts through on-the-ground action. We used the Six Americas scale, developed by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication, as the basis for a webbased survey of 2,758 Extension professionals in eight Southeastern states between August 2011 and March 2012. Given their role as science communicators, one might expect Extension professionals to be …