¥What can we expect will be the future of mass media as a bridge between formal climate science and policy to our cafŽs, pubs, living rooms and kitchen tables amid the many challenges in the 21st century?
¥How will news and entertainment media differentially influence how climate issues are taken up or resisted in our everyday lives?
¥What are future roles that various claims-makers have in the creation , maintenance or silencing of discourses on climate issues?
¥How will ongoing structures, laws and institutions continue to influence climate considerations?
¥What empirical work must be done to provide more textured understandings of media  and climate?
¥How will these science-policy-media-public interactions play out differentially across different local, regional and national contexts?
¥How will varied cultural, social, political, economic and environmental issues shape media representational practices from location to location?
¥What does the future hold for media representational practices shaping climate science and governance priorities?
¥How will these issues shape varied awareness and engagement  across gender, age, and socio-economic segments of the public citizenry?