“Climate Change” The consequences of climate change arte expected to intensify in the future and emergency and community planners must include climate change in their risk and needs assessments in order to identify and implement risk reduction measures and to better prepare for future disasters events. This chapter examines how climate change specialists are communicating climate change messages, especially those messages that concern extreme weather events and their impacts, discusses the similarities between climate change communications and disaster communications, and identifies what these two sectors can learn from each other and to how climate change and disaster communicators might work together in the future.Climate change is a very complex problem. This is reflected in our collective behaviors and attitudes toward it—as our understanding of the physical problem has grown, our motivations, behaviors, and institutions directed at addressing it have failed to keep pace. Even in recent history as we arrange conferences, reach accords, and outline plans of implementation, these efforts fail time and again to incite deep, meaningful changes in policies, institutions, or behavior.a As Dale Jamieson succinctly puts it, “diplomats will diplomatize and talking heads will talk, and all of this will seem very important to those whose job it is to track very, important events, but will have little effect on anyone else or on the atmosphere”