Physicists of climate change are assessment experts who have a responsibility to act by providing solutions to better understand how our planet works in the changing climate. This responsibility raises two communication challenges, so far neglected by this scientific community. Firstly, as climate change is a global physical effect, physicists are faced with the imperative to learn from and engage with each other beyond siloed specialisations in order to produce a coherent and integrated understanding of the earth system. This raises communication challenges within the scientific community. Secondly, physicists need to ensure that they do as much as they can so the knowledge we produce help the general audience in understanding what is at stake, and in informing policy-makers to make appropriate decisions. This raises a challenge in regards to communication towards non-scientific audiences.

This participatory action research project in partnership with Dr John Bruun (theoretical physicists of the climate system) aims to:  
 - assess the knowledge communication issues faced by physicists of climate change and 
 - use sociology/anthropology of science and knowledge and discourse studies to create tools to help physicists become more reflexive in regards to their knowledge communication practice to ensure that generic physical properties help inform the direction of research in climatic physics and that this knowledge is appropriately communicated to society.