Communication about the reality of climate change is slowly being mainstreamed. Recently, the head of the Australian Security and Investment Commission advised company directors that they had to start telling investors much more about the risks of climate change in relation to their investments, otherwise a company director could personally be sued over breaching their duty of care in the future.

In this interview from the Communication Mixdown back catalogue, David Holmes director of the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, explains how television weather presenters can work as facilitators for the mainstreaming of climate change information.