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Scientific information about climate change has proved to be a relatively poor motivator for meaningful public action1,2. That Jacobs et al.3 critique our recent Letter4 about public meanings attached to abstract scientific knowledge by using even more abstract scientific knowledge reaffirms this central point: that some in the climate science community fail to understand that scientific knowledge alone, no matter how certain, is poorly equipped to meaningfully communicate climate change.5.

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