This study examines climate scientists' views on media science communication and their strategies for dealing with journalists and climate deniers. Drawing on scholarly calls for openness and public engagement, particularly the concept of "socially robust knowledge," this paper discusses how climate scientists weigh concerns of control, openness and transparency when considering how to best communicate with the public through the mass media. I argue that "socially robust knowledge" neglects the challenges of "medialization" of climate science, and propose that the climate scientists' strategy can better be described as attempts to achieve "politically robust" communication.

Drawing on the analytical concept of 'sensemaking' as defined by Weick [1995, Sensemaking in Organizations (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA)], and on scholarship concerning discourses on architect identity and the regulatory context of architecture, in this paper I examine how architects make sense of the issue of climate adaptation.I found that discourses on architects' identity and context appeared to shape the way climate adaptation was made sense of, rather than the other way around. Also, architect identity and contextual factors were more important in architects' sensemaking than features of the climate adaptation issue itself. Most important among the identity-related element of architects' sensemaking was the conception of architects' expertise as holistic-encompassing both aesthetic-creative and technical-craft-related dimensions. Among contextual factors in architects' sensemaking, national building regulations and the industry's focus on cost efficiency were the most central.

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