Why is Social Science needed for tackling Climate Change?

Keri Norgaard says Climate Change is a social issue. She’s right! Climate Change may be an ecologically-premised trend of ominous long-term natural phenomena, but it is a social issue because it affects social stuff - like how we eat, how we breathe, where we build, who/how we fight and what we’re fighting each other for. Norgaard makes another great point - there’s not enough social science going on in climate change action. I think this is true because I see that those not involved in environmental disciplines still regard climate change  as “just another” fad of the noise-machine-media. It’s not their fault either - climate change comes to many Americans most often by media headlines where they are beside celebrities and candidate drama. Contrast the emotional response you receive when asking an average American about their views on U.S. involvement in the Middle East and the response you get when asking someone about their position on climate change.
Its absolutely necessary to have boat-loads of natural scientists in the field of climate change science. This is important because climate change is super duper complex and we would never come to understand the full breadth of its’ impacts without them. However, if there were a greater amount of sociologists and other humanitarian social scientists at the forefront of climate change science, there'd be a lot more reputable material on how climate change affects society, not just how climate change affects mother nature.
If that were the case, I think it’d be a lot easier for people to relate with the pernicious threat Climate Change poses. We talk a lot about risk perception and alienation - how problems that are super long term or exceedingly complex or from an indirect source are difficult for the human psyche to wrap itself around. So it seems like a clear connection to me that a growing body of work detailing the social impact of climate change, and even the social sources of climate change, would contribute to the trend of people taking climate change seriously. If there was this hypothetical body of social science, then people would care more. People might vote more. They’ll surely change their consumer habits and daily behavior if they had some “scientifically proven” connection between an aspect of their lives and this big hairy scary problem of climate change. And that, my friends, is a critical hope we need to foster. While taking shorter showers may not make the military spend consume less oil or emit less fossil fuels, changing the hearts and minds of the american people is the only sure way to establish a substantial paradigm shift. We need a paradigm shift as big as Climate Change itself to tackle Climate Change, and it won't happen without the consilience of every discipline.