Find­ing the lan­guage to build sus­tained pub­lic engage­ment on the cli­mate cri­sis is one of the great­est chal­lenges faced by sci­ence com­mu­ni­ca­tors today. In this episode, Ter­ra Inform­ers Son­ak Patel and Eliz­a­beth Dowdell con­sid­er the role that lan­guage plays in com­mu­ni­cat­ing the cli­mate cri­sis and how it get­ting it wrong may con­tribute to con­tin­ued cli­mate inac­tion. To get fur­ther insight into the big pic­ture of cli­mate change com­mu­ni­ca­tion, they spoke to Sean Hol­man, Pro­fes­sor of Jour­nal­ism at Mount Roy­al University.