Publication year: 2011 Source: Global Environmental Change, Available online 13 October 2011 Peter Rudiak-Gould Public knowledge of global warming depends on the translation of climate science from specialist communities to citizens, and from scientific language to the vernacular; yet, no two cultures or languages being perfectly commensurable, this process of translation necessarily entails a transformation of the climate change concept. I explore this transformation, and the unexpected consequences it spells for local acceptance and understanding of climate science, through a case study in the Marshall Islands, a low-lying nation endangered by sea level rise and other climate change impacts.
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Promiscuous corroboration and climate change translation: A case study from the Marshall Islands